Hi , I'm Brooke Millard . I'm the
commanding officer of coast guard
cutter Bear , I've been on board this
ship for just over a year . This cutter
just reached its 100,000 hour milestone
on its number one main diesel engine ,
which I think is pretty remarkable when
I talk to other people outside the
coast guard and I say , oh , we have
original engines on our ship . And then
when I say that our engines have
reached 100,000 , 100,000 hours . They
just think that's incredible . I love
the boat to death . I got blessed with
a really good engineering crew . These
engines takes a lot to get them running ,
how they do , but we keep them running .
That's all that counts . I'm excited to
celebrate this milestone here with you
today . What's really cool about this
40 years of Bear in this engine ? If
you think about it , I did some math .
I'm not a mathematician either , but I
did some math and I think this means
that this engine has been running if we
were to run consecutively for over 11
years . And one of our crew members
said that if we were running at about
10 knots . If it was pushing the shift
to run about 10 , then the ship would
have , I think traveled about 800,000
miles . Can you imagine if your car ran
800,000 miles ? Like that's just insane .
So , I think it's a huge milestone for
the Bear . It's also a time to
celebrate all the engineers who worked
on . Bear . The most of the folks on
board this ship , they work on the ship
for 2 to 3 years . So if you think
about 40 years or four decades of
service , we've had so many blue
suitors and support personnel , uh work
on these engines to maintain them and
to keep us on mission and get us down
range and just think about some of the
amazing things we've done . 40 years of
counter narcotics , 40 years of migrant
interdiction at sea . Uh 40 years of
search and rescue . We are just part of
a long blue line and just part of
maintaining these amazing engines and
doing this amazing work .