Into the jaws of ‘Bold Alligator’
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Anderson, Deployable Operations Group. An Air Force C-5M Galaxy lumbered toward the terminal at Stennis International Airport in Kiln, Miss. Its smooth 222-foot long gray wings stretch across the width of the tarmac. At the top of its more than six-story-tall fuselage, an airman scans around the plane [...]
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Keeping the Coast Guard airborne
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cory Mendenhall, 11th Coast Guard District public affairs. In today’s world it has become quite normal to view jobs that require using your hands or getting them dirty as undesirable. There seems to be a collective dismissing of the importance and merit of manual labor. Skilled tradesmen not only [...]
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Midnight marijuana smuggling attempt halted
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cory J. Mendenhall, 11th Coast Guard District public affairs. The waters surrounding Catalina Island are mostly calm and uneventful late at night. You may see only the occasional breaching of a dolphin or the flapping wings of a passing sea gull. But every once in a while, these waters [...]
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Adm. Papp addresses surface naval community
Friday, January 13, 2012
Yesterday, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp provided an update on the Coast Guard to the 24th Annual Surface Navy Association Symposium in Arlington, Va. He shared information on the Coast Guard’s current surface operations and the progress the Coast Guard has made in recapitalizing surface assets. Papp told the audience the Coast Guard is [...]
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Weapon & ammunition seized In Caribbean waters
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Written by 7th Coast Guard District public affairs. Coast Guard crews along with Caribbean Border Interagency Group federal law enforcement authorities seized approximately $190,000, a semi-automatic weapon and approximately 300 rounds of ammunition from inside a vessel, northwest of Puerto Rico. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Maritime Patrol Aircraft detected the vessel approximately 60 [...]
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Closing out 2011 with a drug bust
Monday, January 2, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Anderson, Deployable Operations Group. On the night of Dec. 2, 2011, two black over the horizon boats pulled away from the large gray shadow of the USS Oak Hill, underway near the coast of Honduras. Aboard the 26-foot long boats, crewed by Maritime Safety and Security Team San [...]
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2011 Video of the Year: Day 9
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thirteen miles northeast of the Big Island, Hawaii, a pilot makes a crash landing into the ocean and a Coast Guard aircrew is there to rescue him. More than 4,000 miles away, a Coast Guard boatcrew interdicts a cocaine-laden drug sub in the Caribbean Sea seconds before it sinks. These real-life operations, like many performed [...]
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2011 Video of the Year: Day 2
Friday, December 23, 2011
The second video finalist features a familiarity flight for some very special shipmates. Various law enforcement agencies from around the San Francisco Bay area met on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., to take part in a canine helicopter familiarity training, May 24.
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Your Coast Guard in 2011 – Pacific Area
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Coast Guard Pacific Area is responsible for 74 million square miles of ocean, ranging from South America, north to the Arctic Circle and west to the Far East. With such an expansive area, crews must remain ever-vigilant for the full gamut of Coast Guard missions.
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Your Coast Guard in 2011 – Atlantic Area
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
From the Rocky Mountains to the Arabian Gulf; Canada to the Caribbean Sea, the men and women of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area have served our nation well in 2011. The past year has been a challenging one with several crisis events, a new threat emerging in the Caribbean Sea and continued demands to serve the maritime community.
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