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 [...]
Alaska-based maritime enforcement specialist dabbles in graphic arts
By Auxiliarist Drew Herman When Coast Guardsmen commemorate fallen colleagues with the third annual Run to Remember this May, the event’s bugler logo designed by Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Lawler will help set the tone and unite participants across [...]
Home from the sea: Coast Guard Cutter Murno returns to Kodiak, Alaska
For the sailor there are two great joys: Going to sea is one. Coming home is the other. Saturday morning, not long after sunrise, fair winds and a flood tide carried the Coast Guard Cutter Munro its mooring in [...]
Deck Watch follows SPAR to Hawaii for TSTA
Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Bechtel discusses the Coast Guard Cutter SPAR’s participation in Tailored Ship’s Training Availability from Honolulu Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Deck Watch is a weekly radio program covering Coast Guard news and operations throughout Alaska. U.S. [...]
Coast Guard ground crews keep C-130s flying
Air Station Kodiak is home to four of the Coast Guard’s 27 HC-130H Hercules airplanes. These aircraft are the mainstay of the air fleet and one of the Coast Guard’s long-range aircraft. They are capable of transporting up to [...]
U.S. Coast Guard, Canada partner to curb illegal fishing in the Pacific Ocean
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans conducted joint patrols of the high seas under Operation Drift Net from Sep. 19 to Oct. 6. Coast Guard cutters and Canadian aircraft patrolled the international waters off [...]
Deck Watch learns about international efforts to curb illegal fishing
Cmdr. Chris Barrows, deputy chief of enforcement, Coast Guard 17th District, discusses Operation Drift Net and the Coast Guard efforts to curb high seas drift net fishing in the Pacific Ocean Oct. 11 from his office in Juneau, Alaska. Deck [...]
PIAT Targets First Responders
Coast Guard personnel and other first responders received important training from the Public Information Assist Team upon completion of the team’s scheduled Alaskan training missions Friday. Personnel that attended the seminar included both American and foreign responders including: The National [...]
Coast Guard, cruise industry partner to improve safety, increase knowledge
By Ensign Victoria Stockton On Aug. 11 Sector Anchorage began the first Merchant Marine Indoctrination Ship Rider Course with cruise ships in Alaska, forming an alliance with Princess Cruise Lines to allow Coast Guard foreign passenger vessel examiners to [...]
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 [...]
