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Cadet from Fayette spending summer at sea

Kyle Cuttie of McIntosh was promoted to third class cadet May 18 and will spend the summer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, the Coast Guard Academy’s three-masted barque training ship and the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive.

Cuttie is majoring in mechanical engineering at the Academy, where he is on the lacrosse team. His parents are Vallarie and Don Cuttie of Peachtree City.

The cadet summer training programs, scheduled from May 7 to Aug. 14, offer academic enrichment for third-class and first-class cadets.

Cuttie will be aboard America’s tall ship Barque Eagle for five weeks of the summer program. Eagle’s schedule includes port calls to European cities in Scotland, England, Ireland, France and Portugal. Eagle will participate in a Tall Ships race and a historic naval reenactment while in Europe. For more information, photos and to read the ship’s journal, visit www.cga.edu/eagle/eagle.htm.

Summer training for Cuttie will also include assignment to the Cutter Decisive, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter. Home ported at the U.S. Naval Station in Pascogoula, Miss., the Cutter Decisive deploys on patrols to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to conduct counter-drug, alien migration interdiction, and search and rescue operations. Underway patrols always include several port calls in a variety of Caribbean nations.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy, one of the nation’s four military service academies, is located on the west bank of the Thames River in New London, Conn. Each year, the Coast Guard Academy graduates nearly 200 newly commissioned ensigns and hundreds of officer candidates to lead the smallest of all the military services. U.S. News and World Report magazine ranks the Academy among the top ten undergraduate engineering programs in the nation. For more information about the Academy, visit www.cga.edu.