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Ribbon cutting held for USCG upgrade at Station Milford Haven

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday for a long-planned upgrade to U.S. Coast Guard Station Milford Haven—a 4,200-square-foot building to support the Coast Guard’s mission of providing and maintaining aids to navigation on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The new $3.2 million facility was five years in the planning and took two years to complete, said Chief Dana Wise, station officer in charge. Located landside of the main building and docks, it has a training room that can accommodate the dozen people assigned there, three command offices, a large engineering and deck shop, equipment rooms, and storage and locker space. It houses a 26-foot trailerable boat that is used to access more than 500 aids to navigation from the Maryland/Virginia line to Langley Air Force Base. Wise welcomed those in attendance to “our little slice of paradise.” He said that the station services “everything from lighthouses to buoys and beacons.” “We operate in a playschool world with red triangle...

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