itCG-Migrant interdiction, sailboat rescue, tragic discovery, education partnership
Friday, December 4, 2009
Guardians on board a Coast Guard cutter spotted a suspicious 25-foot vessel off the coast of La Jolla, CA. Guardians alerted federal agents, who dispatched a Blackhawk helicopter and a Midnight Express Interceptor vessel to intercept the fleeing boat. According to Customs and Border Protection officials, 21 illegal immigrants were found on board and the [...]
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itCG-Rescue, grounded vessel, helping return from Iraq
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Guardians from Rescue Coordination Center Norfolk responded to a distress signal Wednesday evening from a disabled sailboat 100 nautical miles off Cape Lookout, NC. An Air Station Elizabeth City HC-130J Hercules aircraft crew located the vessel and a helicopter rescue crew hoisted one person from the sailboat early Thursday morning. Another helicopter rescue crew was on [...]
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itCG-search continues for F-16 pilot, fuel tanks jettisoned, three rescued, migrant smuggler convicted
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Coast Guard is continuing to search the waters off the coast of North Carolina for the missing U.S. Air Force Captain Nicholas Giglio whose F-16 aircraft crashed Thursday evening. Making the search more difficult is the fact that none of the three locator beacons attached to the seat, the plane or the pilot [...]
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itCG- “Deadliest Catch” training, aircraft pilot rescue, sea rescues
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Post Written by Bob Hopkins
“Deadliest Catch” film-crewmembers received Coast Guard training in preparation for filming the popular Discovery Channel reality show that covers the dangerous king crab fishery in Alaska. The film-crewmembers received survival suit, life raft and flare training combined with drills in the pool. The crew will be embedded with the Coast Guard [...]
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Ensign Cook Reports – Air Station Elizabeth City Part III
Friday, September 25, 2009
Post Written By Ensign Lindsay Cook
Hello Everyone,
So far, I’ve spent time in a HC-130 and a MH-60T and received a better understanding of what it’s like to be at an air station. I’ve learned a little bit about what each aircraft does and what missions it executes.
Here are some of the details:
On an HC-130 there [...]
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Ensign Cook Reports – Air Station Elizabeth City
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Ensign Cook is out and about again. This time, she is deployed to Air Station Elizabeth City. She will be posting all week as she learns about the AirSta’s missions and people. Here is her first post…
-CBraesch
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Hello everyone,
Last month I was on board the CG Cutter FORWARD to get a feel for [...]
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itCG-three rescued after plane flipped over, maritime security, parasail incident investigation continues
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A Coast Guard Cordova Aviation Support Facility helicopter crew rescued three men after their plane reportedly flipped over while taking off from the beach along Patton Bay on Montague Island, Alaska, yesterday. The three passengers escaped the plane without injuries and used a satellite phone to call the Alaska State Troopers for help. The [...]
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itCG-EPIRB leads to rescue, two medevaced, six rescued
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Although the crew onboard a fishing vessel did not directly call the Coast Guard for help, Guardians were alerted that a vessel was in trouble Sunday night by a 406 MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) registered to the fishing vessel Captain Smoke, a 39-foot shrimping vessel. A Coast Guard helicopter launched to [...]
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itCG-new CG exhibit, lightening strikes, boat collision
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Friday, the Compass’ history post discussed the Coast Guard curator, the preservation of historical artifacts and places people can go to view the pieces. On October 3, a new exhibit will be available to the public in the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, NC. Beyond the general history of the Coast [...]
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itCG-six rescued, two boat collision, ferry allision
Monday, August 31, 2009
CGC Sea Horse heard and responded to the initial distress call from a 28-foot boat taking on water about 30 miles off the coast of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, yesterday. Sea Horse monitored the situation as the vessel in distress transited toward shore because it was only able to control flooding by accelerating up [...]
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