http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil Official Blog of the 1st Coast Guard District Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:21:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/24/sunshine-and-signal-flares/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/24/sunshine-and-signal-flares/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 01:52:04 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=636 Written by Fireman Ross Ruddell A picture-perfect New England summer day greeted members of the boating community at Coast Guard Station Gloucester for the kick-off of National Safe Boating Week May 19. Warm sunshine and a cloudless sky lent itself [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/24/sunshine-and-signal-flares/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/17/coast-guard-women-leading-by-example/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/17/coast-guard-women-leading-by-example/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:32:12 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=627 Written by Petty Officer Jetta Disco NEW YORK — There’s something to say about a roomful of Coast Guard women of all ranks and experience attending a women’s leadership workshop. It would be a rare occurrence just a few decades [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/17/coast-guard-women-leading-by-example/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/14/truly-truly-multi-mission/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/14/truly-truly-multi-mission/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 05:42:34 +0000 LT Joe Klinker http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=616 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/14/truly-truly-multi-mission/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/03/resiliency-in-the-21st-century/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/03/resiliency-in-the-21st-century/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 01:08:12 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=600 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/05/03/resiliency-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/26/every-petal-a-person/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/26/every-petal-a-person/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:32:45 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=586 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/26/every-petal-a-person/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/20/18th-annual-battle-for-the-commandants-cup/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/20/18th-annual-battle-for-the-commandants-cup/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:36:33 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=574 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/20/18th-annual-battle-for-the-commandants-cup/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/13/remembering-the-tragedy-that-changed-a-service/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/13/remembering-the-tragedy-that-changed-a-service/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:05:39 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=559   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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/13/remembering-the-tragedy-that-changed-a-service/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/05/things-i-just-dont-understand/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/05/things-i-just-dont-understand/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:12:05 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=544 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/04/05/things-i-just-dont-understand/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/29/521/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/29/521/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:12:29 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=521 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/29/521/feed/ 0 http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/22/iceberg-not-right-ahead/ http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/22/iceberg-not-right-ahead/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:51:38 +0000 Chief Jeff Hall http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/?p=492 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 [...]]]> http://northeast.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/22/iceberg-not-right-ahead/feed/ 0