Two of three Ketchikan-based U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutters were recently deployed to the U.S./Mexico border, a USCG official stated in an email on Thursday.
The Coast Guard cutters John McCormick and Bailey Barco “are currently completing short-duration deployments to the United States’ southern border,” Travis Magee, a spokesperson for the U.S.Coast Guard Arctic District, said Thursday in an email to the Ketchikan Daily News.
“These operations are part of the Coast Guard’s…

