page_title: USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716)
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) / Service history / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: English: MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Aug. 11, 2008) The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter USCG Dallas (WHEC 716) leaves Gibraltar. Dallas, a 378-foot high endurance cutter based in Charleston, S.C., is on a four-month deployment supporting maritime safety and security in west and central Africa. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Jorgensen/Released)
context_page_description: USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) was a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter commissioned in 1967 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the sixth ship or boat to bear the name of Alexander J. Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison. She is one of twelve Hamilton-class cutters built for the Coast Guard.
  Dallas served in the Atlantic Ocean, venturing as far away as the Black Sea and Africa on occasion.
  Dallas was at first home ported at the former Coast Guard base on Governors Island, New York. She was relocated to her final homeport of Charleston, South Carolina in September 1996. She was decommissioned on 30 March 2012, and was transferred to the Philippines on May 22, 2012 as an excess defense article through the Foreign Assistance Act.
context_section_description: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Virginia, Dallas was deployed as part of Operation Noble Eagle off the coast of the southeastern United States. Her mission was to interrogate and board vessels entering US waterways. This marked a change in the Coast Guard’s operations as an emphasis on homeland security preceded Dallas's previous missions of drug interdiction and operations with the U.S. Navy overseas.
  During the summer of 2002, Dallas took part in a new approach to maritime drug interdiction. Deployed alongside Gallatin, the only other 378-foot cutter on the East Coast, Dallas took part in Operation New Frontier. Operation New Frontier utilized armed helicopters from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) to stop small high-speed vessels ("go-fasts") before they could reach their destination.
  In 2003, Dallas was assigned to the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dallas initially provided armed escorts through the Straits of Gibraltar and conducted boardings of vessels leaving the Suez Canal, as the Iraqis retreated. Dallas made port calls in Rota, Spain, Split, Croatia, Sicily, and Madeira, Portugal.
  In August 2008, Dallas was sent to Georgia's shoreline on the Black Sea in support of Operation Assured Delivery in order to bring humanitarian supplies to those affected by the South Ossetia war.  With Georgia's main naval base at Poti effectively under Russian control, Dallas instead docked at Batumi, as did USS McFaul and nine other NATO ships.
  Dallas's awards include: two Joint Meritorious Unit Awards, three Coast Guard Unit Commendations, a Navy Unit Commendation (as part of the Battle Force 6th Fleet Task Force 60 for Operation Iraqi Freedom), two Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendations, a Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Armed Forces Service Medal, three Humanitarian Service Medals, numerous Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbons, the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation, the Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
caption: USCGC Dallas leaving Gibraltar on August 11, 2008
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