Coast Guard Magazine articles from March 2006

Coast Guard Magazine archives from March 2006

HH-3F Pelican.
March 1, 2006... The last Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican helicopter in Coast Guard service was retired May 6, 1994. This ended the Coast Guard's "amphibious era," as no aviation asset left in service was capable of making water landings. The HH-3F was acquired by...

Joint force, one fight.(Up Front)
March 1, 2006... CGC Wrangell rendezvous with USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) underway in the Persian Gulf, March 8. During the 3-hour encounter Ronald Reagan treated Wrangell to a close-up view of flight operations and provided a CVN-size "care package" to Wrangell...

Training days.(Up Front)
March 1, 2006... ET2 Joseph Keough, a company commander for Oscar Company 172, yells commands to his recruits during an early evening visit to the beach for incentive training Oct. 29, 2005. This photo won first place in the Feature Category of the 2005...

Drug war award.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 4 -- Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron recieved a Unit Commendation today for their successes in the war on drugs. To date, HITRON has assisted in stopping more than 269,379 pounds of illegal drugs...

Oil spill response.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Apr. 25 -- The Coast Guard, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control arc working together to clean up an oil spill that occurred early this...

Illegal migrants interdicted.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Apr. 21 -- CGC Steelhead interdicted a 66-foot commercial fishing boat, carrying 21 illegal migrants today 50 miles northeast of Port Mansfield. During a routine patrol, the crew of a Coast Guard Falcoln jet from Air...

Teenager medevaced.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Apr. 27 -- Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City air crew evacuated a 16-year-old girl from the Beaver Island Clinic Thursday night. The crew of a HH-65 Dolphin helicopter hoisted the girl and transported her to Munson...

Responding to multiple cases.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... MCKINLEYVILLE, Calif., Apr. 20 -- Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay responded to five cases from the California/Oregon border to the southern tip of the Noyo River today. The Sector crews helped three vessels adrift due to engine problems, saved...

Rescue swimmer receives Medal.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... ALAMEDA, Calif., Apr. 5 -- AST2 Dennis Moyer received the prestigious Air Medal this morning at Air Station San Francisco for his rescue of a woman trapped in a submerged car near Ukiah, during torrential rains on New Year's Eve. The Air Medal...

Auxiliarists rescue Hawaii teens.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... HONOLULU, Apr. 22 -- A Coast Guard Auxiliary crew in Hawaii is being lauded for rescuing a group of teenagers aboard a demasted sailboat outside Kaneohe Bay. Two Auxiliary vessels were engaged in a boat crew training exercise in the bay on...

Healy crew to the rescue.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... KODIAK, Alaska, May 6 -- The crew of the CGC Healy safely transferred aboard a man from the British sailing vessel Jersey Clipper tonight 680 miles southeast of Dutch Harbor. The Coast Guard command center in Juneau and the Canadian Coast Guard...

Rescue thanks.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... NEW ORLEANS, Apr. 20 -- Tasha Cheramie and Bobble Mcreau from Nairn, view footage of their rescue with Lt. David M. Johnston and AET2 Warren Labeth of Air Station New Orleans after an awards ceremony honoring the air station personnel here....

New York welcome.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... New York, May 5 -- America's Tall Ship, the 295-foot Coast Guard Barque Eagle, sailed through New York Harbor. The Eagle docked at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport for the weekend and was open to the public for tours. The Eagle allows future...

Boat fire.(News Beat)
March 1, 2006... SEATTLE, April 27 -- Six people are safe after batting an early morning fire on a 56-foot commercial fishing boat one mile west of Richmond Beach near Edmonds. The crew of the tugboat Samish reported to Sector Seattle, that the fishing vessel...

Prototype sets standard for port monitoring systems.(Joint Harbor Operations Center)
March 1, 2006... PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- The Coast Guard and Navy unveiled the first of 35 Sector Command Center--Joint Harbor Operations Centers at Integrated Support Command, here, March 23. SCC-JHOC is the newest method for protecting and monitoring America's...

Diligence reaches milestone on patrol.(42-in-42)
March 1, 2006... While on a 53-day patrol in the Windward Pass, the CGC Diligence intercepted a disabled sailboat with approximately 2,875 pounds of marijuana onboard, giving the cutter its 42nd bust in 42 years of commissioned service. Besides...

Protecting marine resources.
March 1, 2006... When people think of the U.S. Coast Guard, images of rescue helicopters saving lives from condemned rooftops in the days following Hurricane Katrina are still very abundant. However, before and after Katrina, other missions within the Coast...

Tactical descent.
March 1, 2006... The idea of Coast Guardsmen going aboard a ship to inspect it is not a new concept. Yet, as a small team of boarding officers stand in the roaring and windy opening of a helicopter over the deck of a ship some 30 feet below, they are part of a...

Rolling down the river.
March 1, 2006... Theirs is a world of hard work, noise, sweat, grime, dirt, mud, grease, splinters, scratches, scrapes, mosquitoes and sore muscles. Theirs is a world of work that starts at dawn and ends when the job is done. Theirs is a world of working-class...

Piecing together a mishap.
March 1, 2006... Within 24 to 48 hours following a major mishap involving Coast Guard aircraft, a team known as the Mishap Analysis Board (MAB) is convened to try and determine the cause of the accident. Assembling the team starts when the involved unit...

Soaring Eagle.
March 1, 2006... The bridge aboard America's Tall Ship sits shrouded in silence as the crew carries out the normal routine on a simmering August night. Only the humming of a generator blurs the sound of a surging bow wave below. Sails fill the sky. The glowing...

One team for one fight.(SECTOR)
March 1, 2006... "mayday! Mayday! This is the oil tanker OpenSeas, we've collided with another ship and are sinking two miles inside the sea buoy!" As recently as two years ago, responsibility for responding to this hypothetical distress call rested with a...

Caribbean adventure.
March 1, 2006... Henry David Thoreau, a Massachusetts native and renowned philosopher, once said, "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." Some people endeavor to bear gifts of...

The bayou bite: Wreck Removal and Recovery Group stays busy as wreckage dangers still lurk below Louisiana's waterways.
March 1, 2006... The bayous, rivers and waterways of southern Louisiana have always been a dangerous, mysterious place filled with prowling alligators, slithering snakes and pestering bugs of all kinds. Since Hurricane Katrina came through, things have gotten a...

Deep Freeze: no time for trepidation as Polar Star sets sail for Antarctica on 48-hours notice.
March 1, 2006... Take your pick... the end of the earth, the middle of nowhere, the coldest, windiest, driest, emptiest and generally most nasty continent in the world. A place where more solar radiation reaches the surface than is received at the Equator in...

This flying is for the birds.
March 1, 2006... Located a mile off the coast of Crescent City in northern California, a small rock formation serves as ocean-front property for tens of thousands of fine-feathered friends. Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge is the second largest seabird...

TTC takes aim at the changing challenge of maritime protection.
March 1, 2006... A product of the post Sept. 11 world, Maritime Safety and Security Teams were commissioned to aid the Coast Guard's homeland security mission. Trained in the most up-to-date techniques in port and waterways security, MSSTs provided a quick and...

Ball players score Elite Athletes of the year titles.
March 1, 2006... The 2005 Coast Guard Elite Athletes of Year have several things in common. Both of their sports use round balls. Both use nets, although one shoots the ball through a net, while the other smashes it over. Both are new to their officer careers...

Meeting of the Queens.
March 1, 2006... Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach coordinated the maritime safety and security of the first ever "meeting of the Queens" in the Port of Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 23. The Queen Mary 2, the world's largest luxury liner, saluted its predecessor,...

FCW "Federal 100" for 2005: Coast Guard Lieutenant helped create a system to track Hurricane Katrina missing-person reports.(Logbook)
March 1, 2006... The Coast Guard usually has no problem handling reports on missing people. But then, the agency has never encountered a crisis on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. Not only was a new system needed, but it was needed quickly. Lt. Joe Morgan...

Coast Guard wins 2006 Hawaiian military Surfing Championship.
March 1, 2006... Coast Guard surfers dominated the 2006 Hawaii Armed Services Athletic Council Surfing Championship held off Pyramid Rock on the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Feb. 12. The 16-surfer Coast Guard team took home the top prize for the second...

Kingdom of Bahrain: Patrol Forces Southwest Asia.(Greetings From)
March 1, 2006... Coast Guard Patrol Forces South West Asia (PATFOR SWA) is located in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This is an island just of the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. PATFOR SWA was initially set up as a contingency operation with four...

On Guard.
March 1, 2006... 3rd Class Cadet Laura Williams practices a series of karate forms Jan. 18, during a martial arts demonstration at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Photo by PA2 Luke Pinneo, 1st Dist.

Race time.
March 1, 2006... Launching into their third year in NASCAR Busch series, the U.S. Coast Guard's racing team is riding an unprecedented wave of success, winning in four races and finishing in the top-five in all but three of its first twelve races (at time of...