Coast Guard Magazine articles from November 2007

Coast Guard Magazine archives from November 2007

Coast Guard snapshot from 1943.(Out of the history books)
November 1, 2007... Printed on page 62 of the June 1943 edition of the Coast Guard Magazine.

Up front.
November 1, 2007... Buddy Swim AST1 Samuel Ariola tows AST2 Brad Fitzpatrick during rescue swimmer training at Air Station Savannah, Ga., Oct. 25. They also swim 100 yards underwater in 25-yard stints with only 60 seconds in between each 25-yard stint. The...

All Coast.
November 1, 2007... For the Children A crowd of villagers in the Dominican Republic flock to a Coast Guard helicopter. The helicopter crew made the difficult decision to land in order to check on the children at a local school. The village was surrounded on all...

Up in smoke.
November 1, 2007... It's a chilly Friday morning in October and a thin veil of smoke and the smell of ash and char still linger in the air. Three men wearing bright yellow fire-fighting gear, carrying axes, rakes and extra water stand in the ruins of a...

Searching for history.
November 1, 2007... Twelve brawny men, mostly strangers, pile into a cramped room and gather around a conference table. They listen carefully to the meticulous instruction of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist as he explains the process...

Honoring our heritage: four lighthouses later, a small North Carolina town finally has a historic downtown landmark, and in doing so, brought back the history from a long--forgotten time.(Landmark overview)
November 1, 2007... On any other day, an ear splitting explosion and huge plume of smoke issuing forth from a cannon barrel along the waterfront of a small North Carolina town would normally bring local law enforcement officers flying to the scene in a massive,...

The haunting of the light: Pensacola Light, the oldest lighthouse on the Gulf Coast, is a place of unrest. Since 1931, there have been countless ghost sightings and mysterious occurences here ... from the sounds of heavy breathing, doors slamming and faint whispers to the sight of an old woman walking around the lighthouse catwalk. To those who believe, this lighthouse's history simply refuses to die.
November 1, 2007... The Pensacola Lighthouse stands as an eerie monolith rising 171-feet over the Gulf Coast. In 1856, Congress allocated $55,000 to build the Pensacola, Fla., Lighthouse, and it was completed in 1858, making it the oldest lighthouse on the Gulf...

Nightmare on Pier 17: a blood-red sun begins to set over the Columbia River in Astoria, Ore. Night draws near, bringing a sharp crisp chill that settles eerily into the sleepy town. The air is silent. It enhances all other sounds that would have been suppressed by the powerful winds.
November 1, 2007... Creatures of the night begin to emerge from the land and sea and yellow eyes begin to peer out from behind trees and shrubbery. The sky is now as black as a raven's feathers and a harvest moon rises from the far horizon, giving a frightening...

The Gulfstream pirate.
November 1, 2007... In the heyday of bootlegging, a colorful character known as the Gulfstream Pirate met his untimely end at the hands of the federal government-the only person ever hanged at a U.S. Coast Guard station. Horace Alderman made his living as a...

Fight night.
November 1, 2007... He was six feet tall and weighed more than 200 pounds when he punched his commanding officer. And it wasn't the first time. SK2 Phillip Miller had sparred with his commander many times on the deck of the CGC Vigorous, based in Cape May,...

The Road Taken.
November 1, 2007... Robert Frost's famous poem, "The Road Not Taken," describes the dilemma of decision. In it, the careful traveler observes the differences of each path. One is bent and covered in undergrowth; the other is grassy and unworn. In the end, he knows...

Sharing jurisdiction: Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Mounted Police continue efforts in strengthening relations and ...
November 1, 2007... A pilot project in cross-nation cooperation could mean bad news for smugglers and other lawbreakers along Washington's maritime border with Canada. The Shiprider Project is bringing new enforcement capability to both the Royal Canadian...

Barber's Point makes a million: HH-65C crew records a rescue and clocks a fleet first in flight hours.
November 1, 2007... A Coast Guard HH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii, recently completed the fleet's one millionth flight hour during a rescue - a significant milestone in the life of these crucial rescue assets. ...

Combing the cliffs for cairns.(Logbook)
November 1, 2007... With several helicopter flights during the week of Aug. 27, a joint federal venture between the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and Coast Guard Air Station Sitka culminated in the successful delivery of a...

Sea Horse tests new weapons system.
November 1, 2007... CGC Sea Horse was selected by the Office of Cutter Forces and Office of Counterterrorism and Defense Operations to prototype the Remote Operated Small Arms Mount for the Navy. ROSAM is a computer controlled gyro-stabilized weapons mount that...

Busted: law enforcement detachment 401 stops 7,000 lbs of cocaine from reaching American streets.(Logbook)
November 1, 2007... All was quiet on the Pacific Ocean as the USS Klakring silently glided through the pre-dawn darkness on Sept. 8. To the casual observer, the ship might have seemed devoid of activity, but nothing could be further from the truth. They were...

Auxiliary wins International Search and Rescue Competition: a team of Auxiliarists from Florida attempts to beat 11 other teams to finish where no other U.S. team has before.
November 1, 2007... A quartet of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarists from Pinellas County, Fla., beat five other U.S. teams and six Canadian teams at the 2007 International Search and Rescue Competition in Toronto Harbor, Canada Sept. 28-29. For the first time in...

Coordinated patrol conducted with Canadian Coasties.(Logbook)
November 1, 2007... The CGC Northland had the unique opportunity to participate in a coordinated fisheries observance with the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir William Alexander Sept. 19. The two ships rendezvoused along the Canadian/U.S. Hague line, which...

Remembering the fallen of the Cuyahoga.(Obituary)
November 1, 2007... Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown held the 29th memorial to honor the 10 Coast Guardsmen and one Indonesian Naval Officer who lost their lives aboard the CGC Cuyahoga. On Oct. 20, 1978, the Cuyahoga, with 29 personnel aboard, was...

Riders rally for CGMA: a community in Virginia combines their passion for motorcycles with their desire to help Coasties in need by spending a day raising money for the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance Program.(Logbook)
November 1, 2007... Coasties stationed throughout the Hampton Roads region of Virginia participated in a motorcycle rally for Coast Guard Mutual Assistance in Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 22. Over 65 riders showed up for the "Riders on the Storm" motorcycle rally...

Twister.
November 1, 2007... A waterspout passes near the Buffalo Lighthouse in Buffalo, New York, Sept. 28. The waterspout formed over Lake Erie and lasted almost ten minutes passing along the north side of the Coast Guard Station there.

MSU Lake Charles.(Greetings From)
November 1, 2007... Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles is the sole Louisiana member of the Sector Houston-Galveston zone. A subordinate unit of MSU Port Arthur, Texas, MSU Lake Charles became an independent command in 2001. In 2005 the office relocated from its...

Search and rescue satellites help save lives.
November 1, 2007... A combination of some quick thinking and an Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon helped save Tom and Stanna Galbraith on April 11 when their 35-foot catamaran, Paradox, capsized. The couple were sailing from Honduras to the West coast...