KETCHIKAN, Alaska - Lt. Kirk Fistick and Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Rodgerson discuss serving aboard the 67-year-old Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet prior to the cutter's decommissioning ceremony Friday, March 11, 2011. The The Acushnet was crowned "Queen of the Fleet" after the decommissioning ceremony of the Coast Guard Cutter Storis on Feb. 8, 2007, which will now pass to the Cutter Smilax, a 100-foot inland construction tender commissioned in 1944 and based in Ft. Macon, N.C. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter Shinn.
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