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The Cutter Kukui welcomed a new commander today. Lieutenant Commander Raymond Reichl of Juneau takes over for Lieutenant Commander Patrick Armstrong.
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The change of command ceremony took place aboard the buoy deck. Over the course of his tour in Sitka, Lieutenant Commander Armstrong led the crew on a voyage through the Northwest Passage. He was the first to take a boat through the tricky waterway in several decades.
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