Coast Guard Magazine articles from April 2005

Coast Guard Magazine archives from April 2005

Heroes: the world's best Coast Guard Ensign Charles Duke.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Ensign Charles Duke undertook one of the greatest feats in the history of Coast Guard law enforcement. On the night of July 3, 1927, he and two men were patrolling New York Harbor aboard the 36-foot picket boat, CG-2327. Duke noticed a small,...

More bang for the buck.(UP FRONT)
April 1, 2005... The CGC Hawser steams up the East River near lower Manhattan in New York City during a homeland security patrol March 7. Looking to maintain these patrols and the Coast Guard's many other missions, Adm. Thomas H. Collins, commandant of the...

Team effort.(UP FRONT)
April 1, 2005... A British helicopter from the HMS Invincible and two small boats from the CGC Munro provide cover as a Coast Guard boarding team takes control of a hijacked Thai fishing vessel and custody of the highjackers. An assortment of automatic weapons...

Tactical training.(UP FRONT)
April 1, 2005... Boat crews from Station San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico conduct tactical training Feb. 19. PHOTO BY PA3 ALLYSON TAYLOR, 9TH DIST.

Chertoff assumes role of Service secretary for CG.(appointment)(Coast Guard)(Michael Chertoff)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... WASHINGTON, D.C., March 18 -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff assumed responsibility of the Coast Guard from former Secretary Tom Ridge at Army Fort Lesley J. McNair today. During the ceremony, Secretary Ridge...

Spot news.(News Beat)(search and rescue operations)
April 1, 2005... BOSTON, March 5 -- A boat crew from Station Chatham medevaced a 43-year-old fisherman with an injured hand from the fishing vessel Linda one mile east of Chatham, Mass., today. The master of the 92-foot Boston-based fishing vessel radioed the...

https://uscged.mmac.faa.gov/.(Virtual Education Center web site)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Do you know how many college credits your military training is worth? Is there a practice test for the GRE? Are there any education benefits available for dependents? Answers to these questions, and many more can be found on the coast Guard...

Burning rubber.(News Beat)
April 1, 2005... LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26, 2005 -- The number 44 car of Team Coast Guard Racing driven by Justin Labonte speeds past the crowd during his qualifying lap for the Stater Bros. 300 race of the Busch Series. Labonte qualified with a speed of 184.407 mph...

That was then, this is now ...(News Beat)(CGC Morgenthau)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... THEN... The CGC Morgenthau was first commissioned March 10, 1969. It was active in the Vietnam War, conducting underway replenishment, naval gunfire support, and patrol duties off the coast of Vietnam until relieved by a sister ship in...

MSO investigates sinking.(Marine Safety Office)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... MORGAN CITY, La, March 13 -- Personnel from Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Morgan City are investigating what caused the liftboat Lauren to capsize and sink today at South Timbalier Block 21, about 20 miles south of Fourchon. All four...

Fisherman rescued at sea.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... BOSTON, March 17 -- The aircrew of an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod medevaced a fisherman from the Portland-based 71-foot fishing vessel Caroline M, 50 miles east of Provincetown, today. The aircrew medevaced the...

Special delivery.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 The CGC Aspen, a 225-foot buoy tender from San Francisco, tows a NOAA buoy into the San Francisco Bay from San Pedro, during the buoy's first leg of a 3,900 mile journey. This buoy, which receives and transmits weather...

Shamal storms into service.(Coast Guard ship)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2005... Much like the Arabian windstorm for which it is named, the CGC Shamal blew in from the northwest and disrupted drug trafficking activity in the Eastern Caribbean on its first deployment. Stepping aboard the Shamal August of last year, the...

Operation Straight Arm: reaches over Super Bowl XXXIX.
April 1, 2005... SUPER SECURITY When the medium-sized city of Jacksonville, Fla., was chosen as the host city for Super Bowl XXXIX, area residents began preparations months in advance. Banners were flown from streetlights and business owners made posters...

Storm warriors.
April 1, 2005... The calm-voiced captain of a disabled 86-footer radioed the Coast Guard to request assistance. A motor lifeboat crew from the station responded, expecting simply to tow the fisherman and his boat safely into port. However, search and rescue...

Sea Marshals.
April 1, 2005... When Coast Guard officials first created the Sea Marshal program for the Los Angeles and Long Beach Port area, it was considered a temporary fix to an immediate problem. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 had just occurred, and the idea of a cruise...

The key to survival.(surviving the Alaskan weather, training camp)
April 1, 2005... Thirty-eight lives saved. Thirty-eight people would roughly crew the CGC Tybee and CGC Edisto in San Diego or the deck department aboard the CGC Morgenthau. It is a significant number especially when some Coast Guardsmen may never save a life...

Bicycle riders make dream come true.
April 1, 2005... In the early morning, just before the sun hit the horizon, a group of Coasties were awakened from their sleeping bags by the sound of "Reveille! Reveille! Reveille!" The group departed their camp site on the grounds of Station Islamorada and...

Old 8X10: CGC Ingham.(Logbook)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In the above photo, the CGC Ingham sails past a pair of icebergs while on Ocean Station Baker April 10, 1952. As part of ocean station duty, it and other Coast Guard cutters remained at designated coordinates to provide weather and...

CGMA fundraising campaign kicks off in April.(Coast Guard Mutual Assistance)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Coast Guard Mutual Assistance has announced that this year's annual fundraising campaign will take place during the month of April. The campaign theme this year is "A Tradition of Compassion," reflecting that for more than 80 years, CGMA has...

Greetings from: ISC Kodiak.(Integrated Support Command Kodiak )
April 1, 2005... For those who have never been to Alaska, getting orders to the Kodiak area may be met with apprehension. However, if you have any kind of love for the outdoors and fresh air, Alaska's "Emerald Isle" will win you over. Situated on the...