http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil Official Blog of the 17th Coast Guard District Tue, 14 May 2013 23:25:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/05/kodiak-based-coast-guard-aviator-receives-geico-military-service-award/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/05/kodiak-based-coast-guard-aviator-receives-geico-military-service-award/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 17:39:05 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3841 Petty Officer 1st Class Claude Morrissey is the GEICO 2012 Military Service Award winner from the Coast Guard. He was presented his award alongside his family at the 2012 GEICO Military Service Awards ceremony held on April 29 in Washington, [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/05/kodiak-based-coast-guard-aviator-receives-geico-military-service-award/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/coast-guard-holds-first-alaskan-military-womens-symposium-in-juneau/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/03/coast-guard-holds-first-alaskan-military-womens-symposium-in-juneau/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:05:35 +0000 PA3 Grant DeVuyst http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3790 Women have been serving as part of the Coast Guard since its early days as the Lighthouse Service in the 1830s. Women now comprise 14.3 percent of the Coast Guard’s 38,000 members and women make up about 30 percent of [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/03/coast-guard-holds-first-alaskan-military-womens-symposium-in-juneau/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/2013/01/deck-watch-community-weighs-in-at-kulluk-tow-incident-meeting/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/01/deck-watch-community-weighs-in-at-kulluk-tow-incident-meeting/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:03:53 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3590   Capt. Jerald Woloszynski, commanding officer Coast Guard Base Kodiak and Ivar Malutin, a lifelong Kodiak resident and Sun’aq Tribe elder, give their comments during a Kulluk Tow Incident community Meeting in Kodiak, Alaska, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Deck Watch [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/01/deck-watch-community-weighs-in-at-kulluk-tow-incident-meeting/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/12/coast-guard-conducts-winter-awareness-training-in-kodiak/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/12/coast-guard-conducts-winter-awareness-training-in-kodiak/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:26:41 +0000 PA3 Jonathan Klingenberg http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3584   The family motto of the Starks of Winterfell, from the novel “A Game of Thrones” by George R. R. Martin, is “winter is coming,” which is a prelude to not only a change of season, but a time of [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/12/coast-guard-conducts-winter-awareness-training-in-kodiak/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/12/coast-guard-cutter-spars-4-legged-furry-mascot/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/12/coast-guard-cutter-spars-4-legged-furry-mascot/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:10:09 +0000 PA3 Jonathan Klingenberg http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3537   Dogs, like many other types of domestic animals, have been a part of our armed forces for many years as companions and mascots. In the Coast Guard,   the most famous of these mascots is the mix-breed canine Sinbad, who [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/12/coast-guard-cutter-spars-4-legged-furry-mascot/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/ships-doc-mantains-health-and-wellness-aboard-spar/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/ships-doc-mantains-health-and-wellness-aboard-spar/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:40:14 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3516   Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Flor is a health services technician aboard the Coast Guard Cutter SPAR. Flor, an Owatonna, Minn., native, has been in the Coast Guard for 12 years, 10 of those have been spent in the [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/ships-doc-mantains-health-and-wellness-aboard-spar/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/ant-kodiak-keeps-alaskan-mariners-safe/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/ant-kodiak-keeps-alaskan-mariners-safe/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:40:12 +0000 PA3 Jonathan Klingenberg http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=3497   The Coast Guard aids to navigation missions include more than just the work of buoy tender crews. In Alaska, Aids to Navigation Teams in Kodiak and Sitka service more than 220 land-based aids. The crew at Aids to Navigation [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/11/ant-kodiak-keeps-alaskan-mariners-safe/feed/ 0 http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/08/deck-watch-learns-about-marine-mammal-rescues/ http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/08/deck-watch-learns-about-marine-mammal-rescues/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:19:56 +0000 PA1 Sara Francis http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=2871 The Coast Guard conducted a transport of two stranded walrus calves from Barrow to Anchorage aboard a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules airplane Monday and Deck Watch Radio spoke with Tim Lebling, the stranding coordinator at the Alaska [...]]]> http://alaska.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/08/deck-watch-learns-about-marine-mammal-rescues/feed/ 0