Head of US Coast Guard sacked in part over helicopter fleet issues

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Source: US Coast Guard

Among his first acts as the newly-sworn in US president, Donald Trump dismissed the commandant of the US Coast Guard, with long-standing issues around rotary-wing procurement cited as being among the causes. 

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