December 4th, 2009 | 
This is just a post on some nice formations put onto film (digitally at least) showing off some of our Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawks. You can find these and more on the Coast Guard’s CGVI page; and Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis is the rockstar who’s responsible for ‘em. It’s great way to start the weekend- besides for those of us who are living in those area where Continue reading…
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Oh well- it happens. FORCECOM posted an update on their blog that the Coast Guard made a little mistake in noting the LT Thomas Shuler (as posted here) was the first USCG UAV pilot; however, CDR Tony Saliceti is the first pilot to qualify in a UAS Predator B for the Coast Guard, accomplishing this feat in January 2008. He was hand selected to assist Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Continue reading… A minimal but usable update on the state of the Coast Guard Unmanned Arial Vehicle program was presented over Sunday via Navytimes. Put simply- were moving in the right direction but at a seemingly slow and methodical pace (but I guess that’s better than the alternative thought). According to the piece we now have three qualified UAV pilots (and we thought we only had one) via the Coast Guard working Continue reading…
Click to enlarge **Note: This post was origionally writen for USNI on Thursday, 19 November 2009. Often hailed as the “Tupper-Wolf,” or perhaps the plastic hanger queen in some situations, the Coast Guard’s HH-65 Dolphin airframe has become a staple of the Coast Guard image. And today in 1984 we, as the USCG, became the proud owners of the first accepted HH-65. Today as we make our way through the oft touted Continue reading…
Click to see larger versions A great full width shot of the Air Station Kodiak bird CG-1708… it’s an HC-130H and it’s sitting on the blacktop in Portland, OR. The photo’s from the great flickr stream of planephotoman… and it can also be found on the ryanerickson.com CG photo pool. Reading through the headlines presented to me in my RSS reader I saw a headline reading 2 Coast Guardsmen rescued off Alaska coast and my head began shaking in embarrassment. I’m not embarrassed for the two that were rescued, nor for the Coast Guard- no, it’s just odd to read that we had to go and get one of our own. And I know my wife will say the same Continue reading… CG-1705 Tribute Wallpaper I realize I’ve been posting quite some bit on the lost crew of the Coast Guard C-130, CG-1705, but please understand that this event has had a serious impact on both the whole service and specifically the tight C-130 community. When I received the phone call in the Command Center that Friday morning (it was Thursday on the West Coast) my stomach began to feel ill as Continue reading… |
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