Coast Guard Magazine articles from March 2007

Coast Guard Magazine archives from March 2007

Alex Haley: exhibit salutes Coast Guard's first chief journalist.(Out of the history looks)
March 1, 2007... Nearly 150 guests including friends, family and admirers attended the Broward County African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) in Plantation, Fla., when it opened its doors Jan. 5 to a new exhibit featuring the life's work...

Visual inspection.(Up Front)
March 1, 2007... CWO Scott Hogan and MST1 Loran Tong, with the Prevention Department's Inspections Division in Sector Detroit, conduct a damage survey in the enormous cargo hold of one of the Great Lakes' largest U.S. vessels, the M/V Edwin H. Gott. The Gott,...

Bird bath.(Up Front)
March 1, 2007... AMT2 Kate Wakefield and AMT1 Dmitry Tokarsky of Air Station Humboldt Bay, Calif., diligently put one of the station's HH-65s through the wash cycle to help keep the fleet looking its best Jan 25. Photo by PA1 Alan Haraf, USCGR

Matriarch's farewell.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... The CGC Storis, the "Queen of the Fleet," was decommissioned at a ceremony held at Coast Guard base Kodiak, Alaska Feb. 8. The crew of the Storis began their last patrol in Alaska waters October 2006. The Storis held the designation of the...

Jumping to conclusions.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... Wiley and his handler MST1 David Ruhlig, from Maritime Safety and Security Team 91106, New York assist the U.S. Capitol Police with perimeter inspections for explosives on vehicles entering the zone where President Bush was to speak, Feb. 5....

King of New Orleans.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... Vice Adm. Brian Peterman (right), commander Coast Guard Atlantic Area, and Rear Adm. Joel Whitehead, commander Eighth Coast Guard District, pose for a photograph with King and Queen Zulu aboard the CGC Harry Claiborne, during Lundi Gras...

Island welcome.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... Two Marine Safety and Security Teams and the CGC Kiska arrive at Barbers Point Harbor after escorting the motor vessel Tong Cheng from an anchorage South of Honolulu Harbor. A temporary patch was applied by U.S. Navy Dive Salvage Unit One Jan....

Cannon fire.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... Crewmembers from the CGC Edisto fire the newly-installed 25-mm machine gun during an operational and structural test fire offshore of San Diego, Feb. 16. This test ensures the weapon is functioning properly and safely. Photo by PA1...

Dog school.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... Hawk entertains as his handler BM2 Sandor Csitar, from the Maritime Safety and Security Team 91105, San Francisco, K-9 unit talked to local elementary students about his job in the Coast Guard at Sector San Francisco Jan. 8. Photo by PA3...

Hot spot.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... MK2 Adam Aguilar and MK3 Paul King maneuver a hose to douse a boat fire. DC1 Kevin Corderman (right) coaches the Coast Guardsmen as part of a man overboard/boat fire drill on the CGC Petrel in San Diego Harbor Feb. 2. The drill is part of the...

Hazardous training.(ALL COAST)
March 1, 2007... Members of the Coast Guard's Atlantic Strike Team hold a safety briefing prior to beginning a training exercise at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Feb. 20. The Atlantic Strike Team consists of individuals who can rapidly deploy to assist Federal...

"Spectacular success": Coast Guard eclipses maritime cocaine seizure record, nabbing more than 19 metric tons in bust off the Panamanian coast.
March 1, 2007... Described by Capt. Charlie Diaz, commanding officer of the CGC Sherman, as a straightforward vessel boarding with "spectacular success," the Coast Guard and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration annouced the record maritime seizure of...

State of the Coast Guard.
March 1, 2007... The complex challenges and threats facing the United States require that the Coast Guard think and act anew. During his State of the Coast Guard Address Feb. 13, the Commandant of the Coast Guard identified six strategic priorities that...

Air Intercept: taking a Coast Guards to new height.
March 1, 2007... A helicopter, flying low and fast over the nation's capital, changes its direction with surgical precision. The crew aboard scans the skies for their target. They are in pursuit of an aircraft that has entered the restricted airspace over...

Alexander Hamilton: a 250-year legacy.
March 1, 2007... The father of the Revenue Cutter Service--precursor to the modern day Coast Guard--remains a brilliant, influential and controversial figure some 250 years after his birth. Even the year of his birth is under dispute (some say 1755, others...

Chapter 1.
March 1, 2007... "We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." --T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) On the morning of Sept. 6, 1957, the U.S. Coast Guard buoy...

Chapter 2.
March 1, 2007... "Make voyages!--Attempt them!--there's nothing else..." --Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), Camino Real Two centuries after Baffin, and after the defeat of Napoleon, an idled Royal Navy turned its attention to the problem of an Arctic sea...

Chapter 3: the Cold War's impact.
March 1, 2007... "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) As Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and western democracies intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, both the United States and...

Chapter 4.
March 1, 2007... "It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret." --Jackie Joyner-Kersee The first of the three cutters to start the continental circumnavigation was the Spar, which left her homeport of Bristol, R.I., on May 19,...

Chapter 5.
March 1, 2007... "He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea." --Thomas Fuller For the next week, Spar began her oceanographic work of recording currents and seawater temperatures and depths. Meanwhile, Storis and Bramble lay...

Chapter 6.
March 1, 2007... "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." --Anatole France The 300-mile voyage from Queen Maud Gulf to Bellot Strait was free of the perils that had thus far accompanied the...

Chapter 7: the skippers.
March 1, 2007... "The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor." --Ralph Waldo Emerson Cmdr. Harold L. Wood, USCGC Storis Born and raised in Trenton, N.J., Harold Lambert Wood graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London,...

Chapter 8: the cutters.
March 1, 2007... "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." --Brooks Atkinson USCGC Storis Storis: A Danish word meaning 'large ice,' referring to old pack ice that forms in the Arctic basin and drifts southward along the east coast...

Bibliography.
March 1, 2007... Amundsen, Roald. 1908. The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Gjoa, 1903-1907: Volumes 1 and 2. London: Constable. Anonymous. 1957. "Passage in the Ice." Newsweek Magazine, July 15, 1957. ...

Nor' easter: winter working in New England.
March 1, 2007... READY RESPONSE With an M-240 machine gun at the ready, BM3 Carter Seigh of Station Boston keeps watch near the Distrigas LNG terminal in Everett, Mass., during a security escort of the LNG tanker Berge Boston Jan. 11. The Everett facility is...

A ghost station's keeper: Auxiliarist keeps history alive.
March 1, 2007... The town of Rodanthe sits precariously on the sand mound known as Hatteras, deep in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. To the west is the quiet and remote Pamlico Sound; to the east the Atlantic Ocean surges and crashes. The feverish, seething...

Coast Guard Lady: portrait of SPAR Lois Bouton.
March 1, 2007... Writing letters to more than 300 Coast Guard units can be a daunting task for even the most seasoned of writers, but for this 87-year-old WWII veteran, it's a task she takes on every day. Sitting at a small table near the entrance of her...

Roller Coastie: MLC Atlantic yeoman on wild ride with local roller derby team.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... She waits. Her body encased in protective armor, carefully honed through months of training in anticipation of this moment. Muscles tense, coiled for attack. Exploding from a racer's crouch, she sprints on her skates' toe stops, gaining...

Guts, grit and gold.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... They travelled from Seattle, Providence, Cleveland and Haiti to form the Coast Guard team that would, at the end of three, long days and six, grueling events, emerge from the rugged backcountry of West Virginia as the top competitor among 54...

Tactical teaching.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... CGC Midgett crewmember GM2 Neil Bacewicz shares weapons handling knowledge with a Dijiboutian navy officer during a training exercise Jan. 13. The Seattle-based high endurance cutter is conducting Maritime Security Operations under Combined...

Iraqi general visits Miami for lessons in maritime security.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... His face was chiseled and stern with the look of determination as his piercing eyes stared hard into the distance. It was as if he could still hear the explosions echoing halfway across the world in his native country, which has been torn apart...

MSST conducts vertical insertion and full capability exercise.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... The helicopter crewman slides open the side door and attaches a 60-foot rope to the hoist and lets it fall to the ship's deck about 40 feet below. The boarding team members, anxious about the uncertainties that lie ahead, check their weapons...

USCG, CBP strive for enhanced effectiveness through professional exchange program.(Trading Spaces)
March 1, 2007... Lt. j.g. Ron Nakamoto of Sector Charleston, S.C., never thought that he would be working for Customs and Border Protection when he joined the Coast Guard 12 years ago. Still in his Coast Guard uniform, Nakamoto has filled the shoes of...

Requiem for a sailor.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... I know not what lies beyond or in who's care I'll be--But it must end as it began--This wedding with the Sea. My course is laid, My sails unfurled, And my heart is light and free, So scatter me over the ocean wide when the helm is...

WWII veteran, CGC Esanaba survivor O'Malley laid to rest.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... The 21-gun salute produced a shiver through the bodies of approximately 40 Coast Guardsmen, who along with family and friends, laid to rest Honorary Chief Raymond F. O'Malley, the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Coast Guard-manned...

Critical carrier.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... AMT2 James Guidry, of Air Station Houston, offloads blood donations at Brooke Army medical Center located on Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Feb. 17. The HH-65C crew participated in the Armed Forces Blood Program, which collects critical blood...

Coast Guard SUDOKU.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... Fill in the blank spaces in the grid so that every vertical column, every horizontal row and every 3 x 3 box contains the letters C-O-A-S-T-G-U-R-D, without repeating any. The solved puzzle can be found in the online version of Coast Guard...

Tee it up! CG golf tourney accepting registrations.(Logbook)
March 1, 2007... The 35th annual Coast Guard Invitational Golf Tournament will be held July 4-7 at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. The tournament is open to all active duty, reserve, retired, auxiliary and civilian employees, and their dependents and guests....

Acushnet: Queen of the Fleet.(Greetings From)
March 1, 2007... The CGC Acushnet was commissioned Feb. 4, 1944, as the U.S. Navy Fleet Rescue and Salvage Vessel USS Shackle. The Shackle participated in rescue and salvage operations at Pearl Harbor and Midway Island during World War II and participated in...

Coping with motion sickness.
March 1, 2007... Motion sickness is a biological disorder that is induced by any situation where the body is subject to motion. Even subtle motion can induce motion sickness. Everyone is susceptible to motion sickness, but it is not known why some people...

Vision.
March 1, 2007... A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision