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re: U.S. Coast Guard Headed to Birmingham
Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:31 pm to Aubie Spr96
Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:31 pm to Aubie Spr96
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Birmingham has a port on the river. Also, the Navy used to have a pier on the river as well.
What river? I see what looks to be creeks requiring dams to look closer to a river regardless of what they are labeled.
Is the training going to be like the sailing class on Community?
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:34 pm to Ramblin Wreck
quote:sonny montgomery brought home the pork
Guess they will work closely with the Navy training base in the port city of Meridian, Mississippi
Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:37 pm to AUCE05
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It is an inland port. Port Birmingham is north of downtown.
It’s more west of the city. And it’s called Birmingport…
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Alabama's largest inland port, located on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Jefferson County, connecting Central Alabama to the Port of Mobile and global markets via river, rail, and road. It serves as a major logistics hub for industries like steel and construction, handling bulk, break-bulk, and liquid commodities, and is expanding with new infrastructure like warehouses to boost economic activity and reduce highway congestion.
A lot of the coal mined in Walker, Tuscaloosa, and Jefferson counties goes here to be loaded onto barges and sent downriver to Mobile for shipment overseas.
This post was edited on 3/4/26 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:43 pm to dallastigers
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What river? I see what looks to be creeks requiring dams to look closer to a river regardless of what they are labeled.
It’s located on the Locust Fork* of the Black Warrior River.
* Not to be confused with the town of Locust Fork which is located north of Bham in Blount County. The Port of Birmingham, or “Birmingport”, is actually west of the city close to the “three corners” of Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, and Walker counties.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:57 pm to dallastigers
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Wouldn’t Mobile or a city on the other side of the bay make more sense for the coast guard in Alabama?
Does Mobile have lots of really nice and totally vacant college campuses lying around?
Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:59 pm to dirtsandwich
Is it because of all the non swimmers there? Maybe they can practice rescuing them from their bathtubs.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 9:00 pm to dirtsandwich
Think about this…. If you average out all of the US coastline, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf of America, geographically, it’s probably somewhere near Birmingham .
Posted on 3/4/26 at 9:19 pm to dirtsandwich
Anticipating a big change in coastline are we?
Posted on 3/4/26 at 9:24 pm to ShoeBang
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In a state full of people who frick their family members
Posted on 3/4/26 at 10:29 pm to Evolved Simian
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Wouldn’t Mobile or a city on the other side of the bay make more sense for the coast guard in Alabama?
Does Mobile have lots of really nice and totally vacant college campuses lying around?
I mean it has the Gulf of America, a bay, a coastline, and so on which seems kind of important for training with the Coast Guard. But I guess they take a raft down one of those creeks and get on the ocean in a day or so from Birmingham.
It also does not have Birmingham which is a positive even for Mobile.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 10:33 pm to Darth_Vader
So basically a de facto creek in most places where it has been dammed up.
Is there a connection from the closed down Birmingham Southern campus that does require a boat trailer?
Is there a connection from the closed down Birmingham Southern campus that does require a boat trailer?
Posted on 3/4/26 at 11:20 pm to dirtsandwich
Odds of seasickness on land greatly diminished.
Smart move.
Smart move.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 11:40 pm to dirtsandwich
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This is a great development for Birmingham and the region.
You guys have been killing it the last few years with companies going to Bama. I’m most impressed and they are crappy companies either.
Development in the state has been solid for you guys.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 1:52 pm to bamacoullion
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Anticipating a big change in coastline are we?
Getting ahead of that global warming/oceans rising dilema
Posted on 3/8/26 at 2:38 pm to Darth_Vader
Yeah, mfkcrs. Ya'll making fun of the CG in the Ham, but it's there for a damn reason.
Mfkcrs.
Mfkcrs.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 4:40 pm to dirtsandwich
Hoping this gets re-looked at with new Director. They already bought the campus, but after some walls and fences are installed they can just use that to house illegals detained while awaiting deportation.
The area just doesn’t make sense for the coast guard.
The area just doesn’t make sense for the coast guard.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 6:20 pm to dirtsandwich
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The campus is slated to be utilized as a training facility for 1,200 recruits and 400 staff members, said the agency
They gave Charleston MLE academy, boat training at camp Lejuene, I know training centers on the west coast and Yorktown … is it a training center or a boot camp? Cape may can’t keep up or is this a deal for Tommy tuberville amd Alabama?
Posted on 3/8/26 at 6:23 pm to dirtsandwich
Ah yes, Birmingham gives them great access to the coast.
Maybe they should have used Kansas City, Missouri or Omaha, Nebraska while they were at it.
Maybe they should have used Kansas City, Missouri or Omaha, Nebraska while they were at it.
This post was edited on 3/8/26 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 3/8/26 at 7:16 pm to cbree88
Wait until you learn where the Coast Guard Pay and Personnel Center is located.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 7:34 pm to dirtsandwich
Better the Coast Guard than Miles College which tried to buy it without any money.
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