The Coast Guard announced this week that a derelict fishing vessel that was dislodged by the Tsunami spawned by the 9.0 earthquake in Japan last year is slowly drifting through the waters of Southeast Alaska at about one mile an hour.
Yesterday, Senator Begich sent a letter to Senators Carl Levin and John McCain asking that the DOD Force Structure not be approved until the Department of Defense conducts cost,risk and feasibility assessments. Levin and McCain are the chairman and ranking member in the Senate Armed Services Committee.