Your Coast Guard in 2011 – Pacific Southwest
Friday, December 16, 2011
In addition to the 11th Coast Guard District’s record-breaking drug busts and hundreds of life-saving missions, the Coast Guard played a key role in an unusual operation mounted off the coast of Southern California in 2011 that solved a decades-old mystery.
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Your Coast Guard in 2011 – Mid-Atlantic
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
In February, a Coast Guard airplane circled high off the coast of New Jersey. Scallopers were suspected of illegally fishing in a closed area, damaging the recovery of the Hudson Canyon’s scallop population. However, locating and gathering evidence against them in a large, exposed area presented challenges. Protecting living marine resources has been a Coast Guard mission since 1894, although the execution has evolved. Nowhere is this truer than in the 5th Coast Guard District.
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Ice-cold science
Monday, October 17, 2011
While many Americans took advantage of the last remnants of summer, crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy, the nation’s largest icebreaker, were exploring the Arctic. Healy was on their second of four missions for their Arctic West Summer-Winter deployment and was joined by the Canadian coast guard as they mapped the sea floor. Healy, commissioned [...]
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Protecting our oceans: Nabbing drift net violators
Friday, September 30, 2011
Renegade large-scale high-seas drift net fishing indiscriminately kills massive amounts of fish and other marine life such as whales and turtles. The practice of using enormous nets suspended for miles in open water is a significant threat to ocean ecosystems and to the food and economic security of nations relying on fishery resources. With miles [...]
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USCG and SEMAR: Shared border, shared missions
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The U.S. and Mexico share more than a border; they also share a relationship that crosses the full spectrum of maritime operations. The Coast Guard and Mexican navy, known as Secretaría de Marina, are maritime first responders in areas ranging from interdiction of maritime transnational threats, protection of ports, protection of critical infrastructure and response [...]
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Gulf Regional Fisheries Training Center
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey J. Ranel. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Gulf of Mexico was formed as a result of seafloor subsidence approximately 300 million years ago. It is approximately 995 square miles from east to west and approximately 560 square miles from north to south. Circulating as a loop [...]
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Corps of Cadets
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Leaders create and cause change. The Coast Guard Academy develops the service leaders of tomorrow, in turn shaping the future of the Coast Guard. Beyond military leadership, the academy strives to lead by example with a culture of sustainability. The academy’s approach to sustainability is ambitious, envisioning itself to be the Coast Guard’s center of [...]
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Shipmate of the Week – MST2 Nicole Emmons
Friday, July 29, 2011
The Coast Guard is unique among America’s military services. As a multi-mission organization responsible for everything from search and rescue, to coastal homeland security, to environmental protection of the nation’s waterways, Coast Guard personnel must be always ready to perform any of these missions at a moment’s notice. Perhaps no Coast Guardsman better embodies this [...]
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Forging partnerships for the environment
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The U.S. Coast Guard has been a maritime steward of the environment dating as far back as the 1820’s when the Revenue Cutter Service was assigned to protect timber reserves, used for shipbuilding, in Florida. As operations and demands changed over the years, the Coast Guard has expanded its environmental protection services including whale and rookeries [...]
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Summer Edition of Coast Guard Magazine now online
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Post contributed by Coast Guard Magazine Editor, Chief Petty Officer CC Clayton. The Coast Guard Magazine staff is proud to present a pre-release of our latest issue, available for download online. The Summer Edition of Coast Guard Magazine features unique operations from around the Coast Guard including a look into the operations of Disaster Area [...]
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