August 4, 2015, From the first lifesaving stations on the shores of Massachusetts where crewmen rowed small, wooden boats into overpowering surf in hopes of rescuing people from storm-battered ships to the Coast Guard’s newest, largest and most technologically advanced 418-foot national security cutters designed to conduct multiple Coast Guard missions around the world, … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
Face of Defense: Coast Guardsman Swims to Save Lives
COAST GUARD AIR STATION NORTH BEND, Ore., Aug. 4, 2015 – An Olympic-length triathlon swim is just under a mile -- 0.9 miles to be exact. A Coast Guard rescue swimmer completed a triathlon swim of a different nature and saved four lives July 21, 2015. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Darren Harrity, an aviation survival technician assigned here, swam a total of 0.99 … [Read more...]
Securing Alaska’s Airspace: Radar Sites Work Around the Clock
August 4, 2015, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AFNS) -- All around Alaska and out into the Pacific, little white domes dot the mountainside, coastlines and islands -- the only tangible evidence of America's invisible armor. The domes are operated 24/7 year-round by a small crew of mostly contracted civilian Airmen. They drive up precarious, ice-covered slopes, … [Read more...]
1/8 Drops Round on the Enemy
August 4, 2015, MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Marines with 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division conduct mechanized mortar training aboard Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, July 30, 2015. During the training Marines with the 81mm mortar platoon moved to various locations, received a call-for-fire, then dismounted from their vehicles and set up their … [Read more...]
New York Air National Guard Airmen Practice Medical Evacuation at Stratton Air National Guard Base
August 4, 2015, STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – Flight medics rushed to stabilize a patient and move the litter onto a waiting LC-130 Hercules aircraft, a life-saving training exercise where minutes and hours can mean life or death for casualties. The event was a training exercise on July 30 at the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing, parent … [Read more...]