Advanced Helicopter Rescue School is located in Astoria Oregon. This is where the U.S. Coast Guard trains the best of the best in the latest techniques and practices. The school is a week long and usually runs during the fall and spring months when the highest seas thrash the Northwest coastline.
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Coast Guard Cutter Tampa Returns Home
Portsmouth, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa returned to Portsmouth today following a 33-day deployment to the Caribbean.
During the patrol the Tampa’s crew traveled to the Dominican Republic where they provided command and communication support for Coast Guard rescue operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Noel, saving numerous citizens from flooded [...]
Coast Guard Medevacs Injured Mariner off Bermuda
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Rescue crews from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., medevaced a man suffering burn injuries from a merchant ship 326 miles northeast of Bermuda today.
Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) watch standers, here, were contacted by RCC Bermuda requesting assistance in medevacing a 20-year-old, Latvian native, from the motor vessel Clipper [...]