Truly, truly multi-mission
Monday, May 14, 2012
Written by: Capt. Bob Whitehouse Approaching pier two at Naval Station Newport, R.I., it’s hard to mistake the nature of work prescribed to the 1st Coast Guard District’s two ocean going buoy tenders Juniper and Willow. But despite the forest of buoy hulls and chain, there is so much more to their world of work [...]
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Resiliency in the 21st century
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Written by Seaman Ross Ruddell BOSTON — The U.S. Coast Guard and Northeastern University’s Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security hosted a conference May 1, 2012 to enhance the exchange of inter-agency information in Burlington, Mass. Dr. Stephen Flynn, co-director of the Kostas Research Institute, and Peter Boyton, co-director, hosted the event and led discussions [...]
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Every petal . . . a person
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Written by Petty Officer Rob Simpson Amid the sounds of metal scraping against metal on a buoy, the briny undersea life on the bottom of a channel marker built up over time spatters off mixing with the sweat and determination of the close-knit, hard-working crew of a buoy tender — this is business as usual [...]
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18th annual battle for the Commandant’s Cup
Friday, April 20, 2012
Written by Seaman Adam Stanton BOSTON – It was the last game of the tournament; warm breath filled the cool-mist air as 10 pairs of skates slid to the middle of the frozen slab. As two members crouched down, staring eye-to-eye, they tightened their grip on wooden sticks. In a blink of an eye a [...]
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Remembering the tragedy that changed a service
Friday, April 13, 2012
Written by Petty Officer Luke Clayton BOSTON – U.S. Coast Guard personnel embarked on a journey to the final resting place of the Titanic to drop wreaths and over a million rose petals April 10, from Boston. The Coast Guard Cutter Juniper, homeported in Newport, R.I., is carrying two large wooden crates of rose [...]
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Things I Just Don’t Understand
Thursday, April 5, 2012
by Captain Wayne Muilenburg, 1st Coast Guard District Chief of Prevention I just don’t get it. At the risk of peeling away some of the veneer that’s associated with the exalted title “Chief of Prevention,” I’ll be the first to admit there’s a lot I don’t understand. – Electricity, for example. It’s pure magic [...]
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Reunited and it feels so good
Thursday, March 29, 2012
About a dozen former and retired Coast Guard members gathered March 26, 2012 on Winter Island near Salem, Mass., to stroll down memory lane at the former facility that was Coast Guard Air Station Salem. The former Coast Guard members gathered to tell stories and relive past accomplishments and look at the site where each [...]
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Iceberg, NOT right ahead
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Written by Petty Officer Thomas McKenzie New York – The Coast Guard enters its 99th year of patrolling the North Atlantic region, marking positions of icebergs much like the one that sank the Titanic nearly 100 years ago. The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, was the key reason for the establishment of the International [...]
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Special Olympics, Special Experience
Monday, March 19, 2012
BOSTON – “I did not catch her name, but there was one young female athlete during the bowling awards that was hysterical for receiving an award that I only assumed was gold,” Cmdr. Jason Smith wrote in a letter to SOMA president Bob Johnson. Cmdr. Smith was the Coast Guard volunteer organizer for the two-day [...]
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New Hamphsire Heros
Friday, February 24, 2012
Written by Petty Officer Ayla Kelley Nearly seven years ago two young reporters were vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. While enjoying a day on the beach and admiring massive waves Michael Garrity and Adam Sexton saw two young women being knocked down and swept out to sea. Without knowing who the two people [...]
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