The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Geotraces science team have their portrait taken at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015. Healy reached the pole on Sept. 5, becoming the first U.S. surface vessel to do so unaccompanied. Healy is underway in support of Geotraces, an international scientific endeavor to study the geochemistry of the world’s oceans. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)
It's an ice breaker, not a cutter.
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According to the USCG site, it's a cutter/icebreaker. Anywho - according to Wikipedia, we have 3 icebreakers, only 2 of them on active service. One of those is on borrowed time, as it already past it's service life. New icebreakers are estimated to cost about $850 million each, and they are not in the budget. Lovely, eh?
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