http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil Official Blog of the 17th Coast Guard District Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:17:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/04/alaska-based-coast-guardsman-recieves-award-for-financial-stewardship-excellence/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/04/alaska-based-coast-guardsman-recieves-award-for-financial-stewardship-excellence/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:16:00 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3804   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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/04/alaska-based-coast-guardsman-recieves-award-for-financial-stewardship-excellence/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/04/alaska-based-maritime-enforcement-specialist-dabbles-in-graphic-arts/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/04/alaska-based-maritime-enforcement-specialist-dabbles-in-graphic-arts/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:26:52 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3797 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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/04/alaska-based-maritime-enforcement-specialist-dabbles-in-graphic-arts/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/03/home-from-the-sea-coast-guard-cutter-murno-returns-to-kodiak-alaska/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/03/home-from-the-sea-coast-guard-cutter-murno-returns-to-kodiak-alaska/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:34:44 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3760   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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/03/home-from-the-sea-coast-guard-cutter-murno-returns-to-kodiak-alaska/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/02/deck-watch-follows-spar-to-hawaii-for-tsta/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/02/deck-watch-follows-spar-to-hawaii-for-tsta/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:22:11 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3632 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. [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/02/deck-watch-follows-spar-to-hawaii-for-tsta/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/coast-guard-ground-crews-keep-c-130s-flying/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/coast-guard-ground-crews-keep-c-130s-flying/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:14:12 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3354   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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/coast-guard-ground-crews-keep-c-130s-flying/feed/ 1 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/u-s-coast-guard-canada-partner-to-curb-illegal-fishing-in-the-pacific-ocean/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/u-s-coast-guard-canada-partner-to-curb-illegal-fishing-in-the-pacific-ocean/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:46:51 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3315 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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/u-s-coast-guard-canada-partner-to-curb-illegal-fishing-in-the-pacific-ocean/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/deck-watch-learns-about-international-efforts-to-curb-illegal-fishing/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/deck-watch-learns-about-international-efforts-to-curb-illegal-fishing/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:08:09 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3300 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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/10/deck-watch-learns-about-international-efforts-to-curb-illegal-fishing/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/piat-targets-first-responders/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/piat-targets-first-responders/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:19:57 +0000 PA3 Jonathan Klingenberg http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3204 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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/piat-targets-first-responders/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/coast-guard-cruise-industry-partner-to-improve-safety-increase-knowledge/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/coast-guard-cruise-industry-partner-to-improve-safety-increase-knowledge/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:50:54 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3185   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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/coast-guard-cruise-industry-partner-to-improve-safety-increase-knowledge/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/williamsburg-va-native-enforces-maritime-law-in-the-arctic/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/williamsburg-va-native-enforces-maritime-law-in-the-arctic/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:18:43 +0000 PA3 Grant DeVuyst http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3071 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 [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/09/williamsburg-va-native-enforces-maritime-law-in-the-arctic/feed/ 0