Just last month while on a routine patrol, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Kimball encountered a group of seven Russian and Chinese warships traveling together through the Bering Sea. The Kimball’s commander recalled the encounter during a recent port call.
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Thomas D’Arcy aboard his command, the cutter Kimball, during an Unalaska port call. The Kimball encountered several Chinese and Russian warships off Alaska in late September.
“We tracked them from about Kiska Island and then down through the pass,” D’Arcy said, pointing at a map of the Bering Sea. “So I’m assuming that they came up into the Bowers Ridge area and then moved in formation.”a group of Chinese vessels that the Coast Guard tracked and followed in the region just about a year agoThe Kimball — which carries about 120 crew members, defensive weapons and a helicopter — came within about a mile of the group and made radio contact with them.
A Coast Guardsman aboard the cutter Kimball monitors a vessel from a group of Chinese and Russian warships in late September 2022. of a strategic Arctic partnership between Russia and China that challenges the organization’s values and interests. For D’Arcy, Russia’s persistence to militarize and develop a presence in the Arctic is concerning. But, he said part of the Coast Guard’s duty is to ensure that the U.S. sovereign interests are protected and to spend more time in the region.
“It’s great to have the crew interact with the local community,” D’Arcy said. “The Coast Guard’s presence has been here since like the 1880s. We’ve been part of Unalaska. We’re not always the same ship or the same crew, but I think being able to demystify what we’re doing here was one of the goals that we had for this visit.”About half of the visitors that boarded the ship throughout the day on Saturday were school-aged kids, he said.
D’Arcy didn’t comment on the strategic implications of the foreign warships the Kimball encountered last month. But he said the cutter is staged for just about anything and will continue monitoring the area for foreign military activity.
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