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From the Bridge Wing 8-27-2013 27 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
This Day in Coast Guard History: 1942 - Coast Guard Cutter Mojave rescued 293 men from the torpedoed transport SS Chatham in the Strait of Belle Isle. 1999 - A boarding team from Coast Guard Cutter ...
Coast Guard Cutter Sherman returns from counter-drug patrol 27 Aug 2013 | 06:41 am
SAN DIEGO — The officers and crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sherman returned home to San Diego, Monday, after a successful three-month patrol conducting frontline maritime drug interdictions and trai...
Coast Guard medevacs mariner near Sitka, Alaska 27 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 44-year-old woman from the 109-foot fishing vessel Tuxedni near Sitka, Monday. The Jayhawk crew rendezvoused...
Life jackets helped boaters survive 21 hours treading water in Lake Erie 27 Aug 2013 | 03:39 am
CLEVELAND — Three boaters were rescued by a good Samaritan Sunday morning after spending 21 hours treading water in Lake Erie after their fishing vessel capsized near Conneaut, Ohio. This case demons...
Coast Guard medevacs man from boat in Great Egg Harbor Bay, NJ 27 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Coast Guard medevaced a 33-year-old man from a boat in Patcong Creek, in Great Egg Harbor Bay, Monday. The man’s wife called watchstanders at Coast Guard Station Atlantic Ci...
Coast Guard to begin construction of new Menemsha boathouse 27 Aug 2013 | 03:28 am
BOSTON — The Coast Guard has received all necessary regulatory permits to commence construction of a new boathouse at Coast Guard Station Menemsha on Martha’s Vineyard in early September, 2013. The o...
Wisconsin man named Coast Guard Auxiliarist of the Year 26 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
CLEVELAND — Chris Bandy, a Coast Guard auxiliarist in Bayfield, Wis., was recognized as the 2012 Coast Guard Auxiliarist of the Year in a ceremony held in San Diego, Calif., Saturday. Adm. Robert J. ...
Living the American Dream 26 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
MIAMI — She leaned her head out the window and saw her crewmembers standing by waiting for her orders. With a deep breath she slowly moved the throttle forward and kept one hand on steering wheel and ...
Coast Guard Motor Life Boat crew medevacs man from fishing vessel off Coos Bay, Ore. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a fisherman who had suffered from possible internal injuries approximately 40 nautical miles west of Coos Bay, Ore., Sunday. The 285-foot commercial fish...
Coast Guard medically evacuates boater near Marco Island, Fla 26 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
MIAMI — Crewmembers from Coast Guard Air Station Miami medically evacuated a 48-year-old male in the vicinity of Marco Island, Fla., Monday. At approximately 5:30 a.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard ...
