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Coast Guard Magazine archives from January 2006
One for the books.(INTRODUCTION)
January 1, 2006... 2005
Looking back, it's easy to pinpoint the one event that defined 2005: Katrina. When the nation's most destructive storm on record came ashore Aug. 29, the Coast Guard stormed into the Gulf Coast rescuing an unprecedented 33,545 lives....
Winter.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... Jan. 6 -- Sector San Diego received a call from the cruise ship Paradise requesting the medical evacuation of a 44-year-old woman who was suffering from epileptic shock and a 72-year-old male who suffered an epileptic seizure. Sector San Diego...
The Inaugural event.(SPOTLIGHT)
January 1, 2006... The National Capitol Region received its first major snowfall of the season Jan. 19, the day before the Presidential Inauguration, when security was tighter than ever before.
Below the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, three 25-foot SAFE...
Spring.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... April 18 -- The CGC Spencer responded to an injured fisherman aboard the 70-foot fishing vessel Jessica Susan, 90 miles east of Cape Cod, Mass. Frank Collins was filleting fish when his knife slipped and left a two inch gash in his lower arm by...
Orient express.(SPOTLIGHT)
January 1, 2006... Just after 10 a.m. on May 23, the CGC Jarvis approached a pier at the Japan coast guard's Maritime Disaster Prevention Complex in Yokohoma, a city about 40 miles south of Tokyo. As the JCG band played a rendition of "Semper Paratus" from the...
Summer.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... July 2 -- The CGC Jarvis and the Russian Northeast Border Directorate vessel Vorovsky rendezvous about 450 miles southwest of Alaska's Aleutian Island chain and 250 miles east of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to perform the first joint security...
Katrina Hurricane heroics.(SPOTLIGHT)
January 1, 2006... If any single event of 2005 tested the Coast Guard's motto of "Always Ready," it would have been Hurricane Katrina. When the force of the nation's most destructive natural disaster slammed into the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, the Coast Guard...
Fall.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... Oct. 7 -- A helicopter crew from Air Station Houston rescued a 60-year-old kayaker that was swept to sea near Rollover Pass on the east end of the Bolivar Peninsula.
Oct. 13 -- A six-year-old Cuban boy died after the suspected smuggling...
Consecutive records put smugglers on notice.(SPOTLIGHT)
January 1, 2006... Two years ago, Adm. Thomas H. Collins challenged the Coast Guard to seize 100 tons of cocaine in one year. Crews exceeded the goal by more than 20 tons, confiscating 241,733 pounds in 2004. The bar was raised for 2005.
So the Coast Guard...
On point.
January 1, 2006... A Coast Guard silent drill team member tightly clutches the polished bayonet of his rifle in Boston, May 29. During each performance, the constant swinging, throwing, spinning and accurately catching of the rifle makes precision critical.