Coast Guard Magazine articles from March 2008

Coast Guard Magazine archives from March 2008

All Coast.
March 1, 2008... CAPSIZED CREWMAN--The surviving member of the overturned fishing vessel Velocity is helped by good samaritans and a Coast Guard rescue swimmer from Air Station Kodiak, Alaska. The individual was rescued near Kodiak. The fishing vessel was about...

Arctic Air: a Coast Guard HC-130 hercules airplane departed Barrow, America's northernmost city, Oct. 25, 2007, and successfully reached the North Pole - ushering in a new era of Coast Guard operations in the Arctic.
March 1, 2008... The 2,300-mile flight, which originated from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, was the first to reach the North Pole exclusively for the purpose of Arctic domain awareness. This new mission for the Coast Guard is based on recently...

Harrowing Bering Sea rescue.
March 1, 2008... The Bering Sea is perhaps one of the most unforgiving, harsh and dangerous places in the world, and although the risk is high, many mariners depend on it for their livelihood. But in the dark winter months when things can quickly go from bad to...

Academy of hard knocks.
March 1, 2008... 'Heave to and prepare to be boarded.' Sound booms over the ship's intercom directing a suspicious vessel to slow down and allow a boarding team to climb aboard. Silence. The suspect ship does not slow amid repeated requests. Finally after hours...

Ready ... aim ... simulate: the Coast Guard aims for the future of weapons training.
March 1, 2008... In the darkness, the sound of automatic weapon fire and directional commands being passed from coxswain to gunner make up the only sounds. "Target on the left, target on the left," directs the coxswain. "I see him," replies the gunner....

Join the hunt ... Dog seeks more good coasties.
March 1, 2008... The Deployable Operations Group is seeking at least 100 of the Coast Guard's finest junior officers and enlisted personnel to compete for the DOG's tactical billets by applying for the assessment and selection program, a rigorous week-long test...

EMT school at 30.
March 1, 2008... That's how ASTC Charles Carter, course chief at the Coast Guard's Emergency Medical Technician "C" school at Training Center Petaluma, Calif., introduces himself to every class. He means it too. Colleges allot an entire semester for the...

Critical Incident Stress Management helping the helpers.
March 1, 2008... Imagine being a young person in high school mowing lawns in the community, and while mowing a neighbor's lawn you encounter a dead body. Visualize being a waiter at an upscale restaurant when a car accident occurs and victims need help escaping...

Making sense of it all.
March 1, 2008... "How can we help you? Five simple words a career development advisor loves to ask. By definition, the Coast Guard's CDA program promotes policies, programs and initiatives designed to retain a highly capable, flexible and diverse workforce...

Warming up to Ice Rescue.
March 1, 2008... A crack is forming beneath a man's feet. It gracefully cuts through the ice and connects with other cracks. Within seconds, an elaborate spiderweb of ice-cracks forms beneath. However, the man returning from his ice-fishing trip is not...

A rhyming tradition.
March 1, 2008... While rhymes are not the lines with which Coast Guardsman routinely toil, penning poetry is an annual tradition. Using verse for the New Year's mid-watch log tests one's creative juices-and often, one's patience. The deck watch officer...

CGC Androscoggin New Year's Eve log 1972.
March 1, 2008... Such as I, on numbered ships, on many nights, for countless years, Have toyed their minds in search of words To describe a mooring to some pier; Or the loneliness out underway, Remembering gentle words and tears, And find some clever way to...

The return of El Tiburon Blanco.(Log Book)
March 1, 2008... There is a legend that tells of a great beast that stalks the balmy waters of Central America. When it is near, smugglers and their shipments of valuable narcotics vanish from the sea. They call the beast El Tiburon Blanco, and a trail of...

International patrol nets big returns.(LOGBOOK)
March 1, 2008... The USCGC Boutwell and Chinese fisheries officers combined efforts with North Pacific Coast Guard Forum partners to seize six fishing vessels in support of the U.N. Moratorium on high-seas driftnet fishing. The vessels were configured for...

MLE Academy receives accreditation.(LOGBOOK)
March 1, 2008... The Coast Guard Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in Charleston, S.C., received Federal Law Enforcement Training Accreditation on Nov. 15, 2007. "This is a significant step towards standardizing our maritime law enforcement training and we...

Traffic stops at sea: prevention over punishment.
March 1, 2008... A ports and waterways security patrol starts as the 87-foot CGC Cochito leaves its temporary mooring. Not long after it transits through the Port of Hampton Roads, the cutter's diesels throttle back and a five-person crew climbs aboard the...

Convention brings together women aviators.(LOGBOOK)
March 1, 2008... During the week of Oct. 4, 2007, the town of Irving, Texas opened its doors to the Biennial Convention of the Women Military Aviators. Women from the five military branches pooled information and experiences in the hope of remembering history...

Capt. Hook gets a hand.
March 1, 2008... On the clear, crisp morning of Dec. 17, 2007, the crewmembers of the CGC George Cobb helped load an 1,100-pound sea lion, named Captain Hook, onto the deck of the buoy tender. Their mission was to transport him 60 miles off the coast of...

Liberty delivers.(LOGBOOK)
March 1, 2008... Wind and freezing rain blew hard against the CGC Liberty as it approached Elvin Cove, Alaska, Dec. 10, 2007. Damp air held the ever-present mist of a Southeast Alaskan winter. The scene calls to mind an image of a dramatic rescue, but this was...

Dishing up fish fare: the crew of the Escanaba hosts the food network during a taping of their new show the next food network star.
March 1, 2008... Trout marinated in grape jelly and marshmallow puree smothered sole aren't dishes you would usually eat aboard cutters, but these were just a few of the plates served up on the CGC Escanaba on February 1. The Escanaba took a break from a...

Old goat gets a new life.(LOGBOOK)
March 1, 2008... It was a cool, overcast morning as the plane rolled down the line to its spot. There had been many mornings like this in its long career, but now it had just received a makeover and onlookers could be seen captured in awe at the appearance of...

Path of least resistance.
March 1, 2008... When FN Shaun Lin stepped up to the table for his last arm wrestling match of the evening it smelled like Icy Hot and sweat. It was his final bout of the evening at the Golden Arms Championship. More than 50 of the top amateur arm wrestlers...

From aztec shore to arctic zone greeting from the CGC Northland.(GREETINGS FROM)
March 1, 2008... CGC Northland has a long history and is the second cutter to carry the name. The original Northland served from 1927 to 1946 and had the first American naval capture of World War II. Northland went on to sink a submarine and capture or destroy...

Responsible riding.
March 1, 2008... Motorcycle fatalities have increased 127 percent since 1997 and have passed pedestrian fatalities for the first time since 1975, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This increase in deaths has brought motorcycle...