Modernization « Coast Guard Alaska

Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo discusses Arctic operations in Nome and Kotzebue, Alaska

As the nation’s lead federal agency for ensuring maritime safety and security in the Arctic, the Coast Guard will perform its statutory missions to ensure the Arctic remains a safe, secure and environmentally protected region. Rear. Adm. Thomas Ostebo, commander, [...]

High and Dry: Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa undergoes maintenance period

Normally, when a vessel finds its way out of the water and onto land, it is not a good thing. However, from time to time purposefully lifting a boat out of the water to take a look at the otherwise [...]

Alaska-based Coast Guardsman recieves award for financial stewardship excellence

By Auxiliarist Drew Herman Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Schinke, head of the Base Kodiak comptroller division, has been recognized as the winner of the 2012 Coast Guard Chief Financial Officer Award for Excellence in the E-6 and below [...]

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jay Tracy, an electronics technician with Aids to Navigation Team Kodiak, is lowered by an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew to a fixed aid on Andronica Island near Sand Point, Alaska, in the Shumagin Islands to conduct aids to navigation work Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. Tracy was a part of a team that serviced aids throughout Southwest Alaska in October during a 20-day deployment to Cold Bay. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jay Tracy.

Deck Watch: ANT Kodiak works Western Alaska aids

Have you ever wondered how the lights that flash from the edges of remote Alaska islands of trecherous rock outcroppings get serviced? Petty Officer 2nd Class Jay Tracy, from Aids to Navigation Team Kodiak, gives us a little insight into that world on this week’s Deck Watch Radio.

The Homer-based Coast Guard Cutter Roanoke Island sits in the Coast Guard Base Ketchikan, Alaska, dry dock while it undergoes needed maintenance Sept. 24, 2012. The dry dock at the base is the only Coast Guard owned facility on the west coast dedicated to the maintenance of the 110-foot Island Class patrol boat. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosley.

Cutter crew maintains operational readiness

During the life of a Coast Guard cutter, there are continual updates and preventative maintenance requirements preformed to ensure the vessel is ready to respond when called upon. However, despite the dedicated efforts of the ship’s crew to maintain the [...]

Coast Guard innovation improves safety, efficiency of Steller sea lion patrols

Coast Guardsmen stationed at the North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center in Kodiak, Alaska, recently received a 2012 Coast Guard Innovation Award for their work to improve a job aid used by cutter and aircrews to conduct Steller sea lion [...]

Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Wilson, a maritime enforcement specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, is a boarding team officer and is also a law enforcement instructor on the ship, Sept. 14, 2012, in the Arctic Ocean. The Bertholf is deployed as part of the Coast Guard's Operation Arctic Shield. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Tamargo.

Williamsburg, Va., native enforces maritime law in the Arctic

Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Wilson, a maritime enforcement specialist on the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, deployed Aug. 21 with the ship to the Arctic Ocean as part of the Coast Guard’s Operation Arctic Shield mission. As a senior boarding [...]

Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Spaulding, a machinery technician aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, stands an engineering watch on the ship, Sept. 15, 2012, in the Arctic Ocean. The Bertholf is deployed as part of Operation Arctic Shield and is assessing its capabilities operating in the region. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Tamargo.

Hooper, Utah, native maintains cutter’s engines in Arctic Ocean

Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Spaulding, a machinery technician on the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, deployed Aug. 21 with the ship to the Arctic Ocean as part of the Coast Guard’s Operation Arctic Shield mission. As a machinery technician, Spaulding’s [...]

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Sayer, a storekeeper, orders supplies and parts for the ship and stands helm watch on the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf in the Arctic Ocean, Sept. 12, 2012. The Bertholf is on patrol in the Arctic as part of the Coast Guard's operation Artic Shield mission. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Tamargo.

Coast Guardsman raised in Juneau, Alaska, patrols north of Arctic Circle

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Sayer , a storekeeper on the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, deployed Aug. 21 with the ship to the Arctic Ocean as part of the Coast Guard’s Operation Arctic Shield mission. Sayer is a supply petty [...]

Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Olczak, an information specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, takes photographs, writes information reports, and briefs the command on the ship, Sept. 15, 2012, in the Arctic Ocean. The Bertholf is deployed as part of Operation Arctic Shield and is assessing its capabilities operating in the region. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Tamargo.

Warwick, R.I., native takes part in inaugural Arctic patrol

Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Olczak, an intelligence specialist on the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, deployed Aug. 21 with the ship to the Arctic Ocean as part of the Coast Guard’s Operation Arctic Shield mission. As an information [...]