By Sandeep Singh Grewal
Two US Navy patrol boats that were active for more than 30 years in the Gulf have been decommissioned.
Coast Guard Island-class patrol boats Aquidneck and Adak supported operations in the Iraq war in 2003 and conducted several maritime interdictions over the past three decades in regional waters.
They have been replaced by the Sentinel-class cutters, Charles Moulthrope and Robert Goldman, which started their duties last month under the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet.
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