Announcing the 2010 Video of the Year Winners

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Posted by: LT Connie Braesch

2010 Coast Guard Video of the Year

Results are in! With 31,639 total YouTube views and 1,064 votes (wow! Thank-you to all who voted), the winners of the second annual Coast Guard Video of the Year Award are…

It was a VERY close race…

Drum roll please…..

First Place – Day 5

Receiving 162 votes, Coast Guard Port Security Unit 307 wins first place for their video featuring the PSU members and the Haitian Coast Guard providing medical attention and medicine during an orphanage relief project after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Port-au-Prince.

“PSU 307, augmented by members from four PSUs and the Deployable Operations Group, mobilized and deployed in 96 hours to meet the requirements of this critical response,” said Capt. Gail Kulisch, Commander of the Deployable Operations Group. “Winning this contest as chosen by the American public is a true honor. This video epitomizes the ‘all hands on deck’ effort by the Coast Guard, the Department and the nation to help the people of Haiti overcome this devastating natural disaster.”

Click on the image to watch the video on YouTube (click here to watch the CGVI video accessible from a Coast Guard computer).

Video of the Year nominee 5

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Port Security Unit 307 wins first place in the 2010 Coast Guard Video of the Year contest for this video. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric J. Chandler.

Second Place – Day 7

Receiving 157 votes, Coast Guard Air Station Houston wins second place for their video of Petty Officer 2nd Class Brad Pigage, the rescue swimmer and aviation survival technician, rescuing a man who was stranded and clinging to a piling near Rollover Pass, Texas.

Click on the image to watch the video on YouTube (click here to watch the CGVI video accessible from a Coast Guard computer).

Video of the Year nominee 7

HOUSTON - Coast Guard Air Station Houston wins second place in the 2010 Coast Guard Video of the Year contest for this video. U.S. Coast Guard video by Galveston County Constable William Comeaux.

Third Place – Day 3

Receiving 143 votes, Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater wins third place for their video of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob Warner, aviation survival technician, rescue of two elderly people who jumped into the water from a disabled sailboat in order to be hoisted out of danger by a Coast Guard helicopter. This case was Warner’s first rescue as the rescue swimmer.

Click on the image to watch the video on YouTube (click here to watch the CGVI video accessible from a Coast Guard computer).

Video of the Year nominee 3

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater wins third place in the 2010 Coast Guard Video of the Year contest for this video. U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Clearwater.

Congratulations to all the 2010 Video of the Year nominees! Excellent job using video to highlight the missions and stories of America’s Coast Guard.

The next contest featured on the Compass blog will be a People’s Choice for this year’s Coast Guard Photo Contest.  More information coming next week so stay tuned.

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  • William Comeaux

    Congrats to the top 3 and all of the members of the USCG who were involved in any of these missions.

  • Zachary

    Awesome Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater

  • j12345

    Thanks for keeping people safe every day guys

  • Terri Phillips

    It was a tough decision – all of them captured what our Coasties do, day in and day out. Congratulations to all of them.

  • Teresa Wolf

    CONGRATS PSU 307 and augmentees. You guys all worked hard on that mission!!! I miss you all. Where ever you all are I hope you are smiling about the hard work that lead to this accomplishment. I know you are Ortiz and Baumgarner.

  • ME1 Ortiz

    Congrats to my unit PSU 307!..we def had some competetition as the other videos were great as well. That was a rewarding mission and one that I will always remember. great team work to secure the port, keep operations running and going out on missions to help the hatian orphanages as well as hatian citizens…Great leaderships from people Like LT Remustat, Wolf and the Chief’s who “made it happen”. Def. proud to be a member of PSU 307 as well as a Coast Guardsman…Hooraahhh

  • Mac McCrodden

    Unfortunately, due to the whole crew being busy there isn’t more pictures of vessel (small boat) rescues. This has always been the case as with the usual boat crew of 3, everyone has an intergral part to play and no one is available to hold a camera. As a retired Boatswain Mate, I was a coxswain participating in more than 2000 rescues in the 70′s and 80′s. Many were routine but numerous were exciting and dangerous. There are thousands of exciting rescues by courageous boatcrews that go un-recorded. Congradulations to everyone who is involved in search and rescue in the smallest military service that has the largest history of doing far more with a whole lot less.

  • Johndoe

    Yeah to bad none of that five star made it back.