Comments on: North Pacific partnerships http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/north-pacific-partnerships/ Official Blog of the U.S. Coast Guard Sat, 18 May 2013 06:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BR ROBERT A SCHWEHR http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/north-pacific-partnerships/#comment-38818 BR ROBERT A SCHWEHR Wed, 02 May 2012 14:20:00 +0000 http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=24863#comment-38818 Finally,world class PA coverage for the USCG!——-Former Army soldier.

]]> By: Lt. Connie Braesch http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/north-pacific-partnerships/#comment-38621 Lt. Connie Braesch Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:57:00 +0000 http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=24863#comment-38621 James, thank-you for your comment and your interest in helping to tell the Coast Guard’s story. I have shared your idea with the Coast Guard’s Motion Picture Office in Los Angeles.
Regards,
Lt. Connie Braesch
Coast Guard public affairs

]]> By: LT S. M. Young http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/north-pacific-partnerships/#comment-38619 LT S. M. Young Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:12:00 +0000 http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=24863#comment-38619 Thanks for reading! You can email us a follow up request at and we can pass it on to someone who can help you out.

Very Respectfully,
Lt. Stephanie Young
Coast Guard Public Affairs

]]> By: James Charlet http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/north-pacific-partnerships/#comment-38618 James Charlet Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:34:00 +0000 http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=24863#comment-38618 How do I get in touch with the producers to suggest follow up series? We are the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site & Museum on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and we represent a station complex of the United States Life-Saving Service with thousands of incredible stories that led to the formation of today’s Coast Guard in 1915.  The most highly awarded maritime rescue in the entire history of our nation took place right here at Chicamacomico on August 16, 1918 with the sinking of  the British tanker Mirlo, carrying 6,500 TONS of gasoline and was torpedoed by a German submarine, causing “the ocean to catch fire,” as one report of the times said.  After a six and a half hour ordeal, the six man crew from Chicamacomico rescued 42 of the crew of 51. That story alone could be a feature length Hollywood film!  Several seasons of that one series right there of the rest of thousands of other US Life-Saving Service rescues and other stories!

The second series could be about today’s Coast Guard on the  Outer Banks guarding “The Graveyard of the Atlantic.”  We have two Motor Lifeboat Stations (Hatteras Inlet and Oregon Inlet) here on the Outer Banks which are two of only five “surf stations” on the entire East Coast.  Additionally,we have  Air Station Elizabeth City which is the second largest in the nation, only to Air Station Kodiak, and is the largest Coast Guard air base, again, on the entire East Coast. If you contact District Five in Portsmouth, VA, and get on their email press release list, you will see just how busy this area is.

America needs to know these stories and to appreciate these services.

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