by LT Taylor Carlisle, D7 Office of Public Affairs
It’s 6 a.m. on a chilly December morning at Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans. A five-member, female crew pulls on their long john’s and prepares for the cold journey.These five women (three pilots, one flight mechanic, and one storekeeper) gather in the flight-planning room and [...]
Posts on ‘December 23rd, 2006’
5 Coast Guard Women Learn a Lesson Outside the Classroom
Deepwater MRS Aircraft Arrives in the US
MIAMI – The first Deepwater medium-range surveillance maritime patrol aircraft arrived in the United States on Thursday. The aircraft, an HC-144A stopped off at Air Station Miami before proceeding on to Elizabeth City, NC where more systems will be integrated into the plane.
The HC-144A is just one of a new line of aircraft being [...]
Coast Guard Responds to Downed Cessna in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Coast Guard and other state and local agencies are searching for a downed Cessna 340 aircraft, which was reported to have four people aboard near the Stono River Bridge today.
No survivors have been rescued at this time.
The Coast Guard received the report of the downed aircraft at approximately 1:45 p.m. [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Dog and 4 Sailors
KEY WEST, Fla. – A Coast Guard crew from Air Station Miami located four men and a dog in a life raft 14 miles northwest of Dry Tortugas National Park, Fla., about 11 p.m. Thursday after their 93-foot vessel sank.
George Wright, Sr., 65, an Irvington, Ala., resident and master of the vessel, Michael Dickens, 46, [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – December 23rd
1904-Near Oak Island and Fire Island, New York the American schooner Frank W. McCullough ran aground on Fire Island Bar, 2 miles from the former station and 4 from the latter, at about 9 am. The Oak Island crew reached the vessel at 10:30 am and the Fire Island crew a [...]