Coast Guard Magazine articles from August 2005

Coast Guard Magazine archives from August 2005

Heroes: the world's best Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Pashai, USCGR.
August 1, 2005... Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Pashai was hand picked by the Coast Guard to be part of a state/interagency team assigned to dismantling a foreign terrorist organization entrenched in Iraq, a first in the history of U.S. counter-terrorism activity. ...

Parade of ships.(UP FRONT)
August 1, 2005... NEW YORK, May 25 -- The CGC Penobscot Bay escorts the USS Carr into New York Harbor during the Parade of Ships. The Parade of Ships is the annual event to kick off Fleet Week. PHOTO BY PA2 MIKE LUTZ, PADET NEW YORK

Elbow grease required.(UP FRONT)
August 1, 2005... PORTSMOUTH, Va., June 22 -- BM3 Roscoe Deel cleans a buoy on the deck of the CGC Frank Drew. The Frank Drew's aids to navigation mission is essential to ensure ships make it into the port to import more than 16 million tons of cargo and export...

Lightning strikes.(UP FRONT)
August 1, 2005... NEWPORT, Ore. July 21 -- Lightning strikes ground near Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay in Newport during a large storm that struck the Oregon coast. PHOTO BY BM3 LEVI RENFREW, STATION YAQUINA BAY

560 gallons of oil threaten endangered species.(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... VENICE, La., June 12 -- The Coast Guard's ability to respond to an incident of major environmental impact was put to the test when, on June 12, an oil spill near Breton Island refuge swept ashore on the island. In the waters of Breton...

Cutter visits Morocco.(Spot News)
August 1, 2005... NAPLES, Italy, June 19 -- Approximately 100 Coast Guardsmen aboard the CGC Bear arrived in Agadir, Morocco, today for a Theater Security Cooperation engagement. It was scheduled for the ship and crew as part of their 2005 deployment in the U.S....

Cutter seizes shrimp.(Spot News)
August 1, 2005... GALVESTON, Texas, July 11 -- The Coast Guard seized the catch of a commercial fishing boat at 12:30 a.m. today, for shrimping in waters off of the Texas coast before commercial shrimping season. The CGC Manowar detected the fishing boat...

New Sector online.(Spot News)
August 1, 2005... SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., June 27 The Coast Guard base officially changed its name from Coast Guard Group/Marine Safety Office/Base Sault Ste. Marie to Sector Sault Ste. Marie today. Sector Sault Ste Marie has been servicing the Northern Great...

8 people rescued.(Spot News)
August 1, 2005... ALAMEDA, Calif., June 29 -- The Coast Guard rescued eight people today at approximately 11 p.m. after their 40-foot motor vessel collided with a pier near Hunter's Point in San Francisco. Receiving a may-day call, the Coast Guard immediately...

U.S., Russia joint patrol.(Spot News)
August 1, 2005... WESTERN PACIFIC, July 2 -- The CGC Jarvis approached the Russian Northeast Border Directorate vessel Vorovsky in preparation for the first joint security exercise of the North Pacific Heads of Coast Guard Agencies. Together this joint patrol...

http://www.uscg.mil/d1/units/nrftc.(WebHot!)
August 1, 2005... The Northeast Regional Fisheries Training Center is a 1st District unit and a tenant command of Air Station Cape Cod. NRFTC serves as a residential training facility for prospective and current Living Marine Resources and Maritime Law...

Grounded.(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... HONOLULU, July 2 Honolulu-based Coast Guard assets are responding to a 145 foot motor vessel that ran aground at about 2 a.m., today, and is taking on water approximately 1,000 miles northwest of Oahu. The motor vessel Quest retrieved 13,900...

That was then, this is now ...(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... THEN... Late 1978, the cutter embarked on a patrol to participate in the Global Weather experiment, a 140 nation effort to gather worldwide weather information. In 82 days, the cutter covered more than 18,000 miles from Peru to New...

Cutter seizes 6,700 pounds of cocaine.(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... MIAMI, July 6 -- The crew of the Maine based CGC Campbell seized 6,700 pounds of cocaine and detained five suspected smugglers 50 miles south of Cayos de Albuquerque, Colombia, today. The Campbell, on routine patrol in the Caribbean Sea,...

Southern exposure.(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... CARTAGENA, Colombia, June 25 -- The CGC Forward from Portsmouth, Va., and the International Training Division from Yorktown, Va., wrapped up their participation in UNITAS today. UNITAS is a two-week naval exercise involving 18 ships, two...

Golden wings.(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 24 -- Lt. j.g. Jeanine McIntosh becomes the first Coast Guard African-American female aviator during a graduation ceremony at the naval air station, here, today. She will be a C-130 pilot in the 14th District, once...

Transportation Award.(News Beat)
August 1, 2005... KAPOLEI, HAWAII, June 18 -- Air Station Barbers Point was awarded the National Transportation Award for 2004. Operating from the Central Pacific hub of Oahu, Air Station Barbers Point provided mission-critical transportation support to...

Beyond the tip of the spear: the Coast Guard's Mobile Training and Education Team deploy to Azerbaijan to help the country's Maritime Brigade develop and run their newly built operations center.
August 1, 2005... The Coast Guard team was a long way from Virginia--they had traveled some 6,500 miles in 48 hours. Their destination was Azerbaijan, a country located between Iran and Russia off the Caspian Sea. They were tired, but there wasn't a chance to...

Haitian operations.
August 1, 2005... Under the dark of night, the CGC Dependable cuts through the Atlantic Ocean like a knife. Engine exhausts glow bright red as the cutter steamed at 16-knots toward its destination. Crewmembers busied themselves in preparation for the long and...

Asian engagement.
August 1, 2005... Just after 10 a.m. May 23, a 25-piece band lined up on a pier at the Japan coast guard's Maritime Disaster Prevention Complex in Yokohoma; a city about 40 miles south of Tokyo. In the distance, following behind a tug and barge, the red and blue...

Seacat.
August 1, 2005... Members of the Coast Guard Maritime Safety & Security Team 91105 San Francisco gave boarding, search and seizure demonstrations and training to five foreign navies as part of the 2005 Southeast Asia Cooperation Against Terrorism exercise. ...

Giving back to the community.
August 1, 2005... Air Station Sitka is located on a remote island in the middle of Southeast Alaska. Thick fog, freezing rain, howling wind and heavy snow are everyday factors helicopter crews face when called to fly on one of the unit's many rescue missions....

Innovation Expo 2005: tomorrow's thinkers recognized today.(Logbook)
August 1, 2005... The Coast Guard's Innovation Expo headed to the Silicon Valley this year and focused on Domain Awareness and Integration. It also provided the avenue for exposure to innovative solutions to Coast Guard and homeland security challenges and...

Tattoo, branding and piercing policy.(Logbook)
August 1, 2005... Our current policy on tattoos, branding, piercing, and other forms of body art has not changed appreciably over the past thirty years. Our standards date back to a time when tattooing was restricted to a very small portion of society, branding...

Greetings from MSSO Brownsville.
August 1, 2005... Coast Guard Marine Safety Satellite Office Brownsville is located in Brownsville, Texas. It was established before 1972 and relocated to its new location in April 2005. Brownsville, Texas is located 30 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico...

Hard work.
August 1, 2005... Seaman Steven "Axe" Axner waits for his next command on the buoy deck of the CGC Frank Drew. The Frank Drew is responsible for servicing 381 buoys that are essential to keeping the seaport in Hampton Roads, Va., in business. An average of 2,500...