SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. – The US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco in coordination with San Mateo Sheriff Department and Pillar Point Harbor Master are searching for a fishing vessel with two persons on board off Pillar Point, F/V GOOD GUYS. The Coast Guard received the report of a missing vessel around 1:00 pm and [...]
Posts on ‘December 4th, 2007’
Coast Guard Takes Delivery of High-Tech Training Facility
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Coast Guard, Integrated Coast Guard Systems, and Lockheed Martin completed the final phase of the $20 million Command, Control, Computers, Communications Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) simulator at Training Center Petaluma in Petaluma, Calif. The completion of this state-of-the-art training suite represents a milestone in the Coast Guard’s $24 billion, [...]
Passing the Buck
Ryan over at An Unofficial Coast Guard Blog has posted about the Coast Guard video contest for leadership videos.
You’ll find more information and a link to the winners at the blog but I had to share this great video showing how NOT to delegate.
Update on Coast Guard rescue operations for Pacific Northwest flooding
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, along with state and federal agencies, worked continuously throughout the night to provide assistance to communities in the Pacific Northwest affected by the flooding.
Coast Guard operations began Monday in Tillamook, Ore., Pe Ell, Wash., and Belfair, Wash., where Coast Guard units assisted in the rescue of at least 128 people, [...]
Kahului, Maui Security Zone PSA
Lt. John Titchen, district fourteen public affairs officer, recites a public service announcement about the upcoming security zone in Maui. U.S. Coast Guard, along with federal, state and county law enforcement agency partners, will enforce both a moving and a fixed security zone during transits of the Hawaii Superferry, the Alakai, to Kahului, Maui, beginning [...]
New York Coast Guardsman to receive DHS Secretary’s Award for Valor
OSWEGO, NY- Coast Guard Petty Officer Second Class Steven M. Ruh has been selected to receive the Department of Homeland Security Secretary’s Award for Valor. The presentation will be made in Washington, DC on Wednesday, December 5, 2007. Ruh will be recognized for his heroic rescue of a drowning woman in the summer of 2006.On [...]
Coast Guard Commences Operation Taconite
CLEVELAND – The Great Lakes Coast Guard fleet has commenced Operation Taconite after ice has caused the significant slowing of traffic in the St. Marys River system and other areas in the Lakes.
Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay, homeport of St. Ignace, Mich., and the Coast Guard Cutter Katmai Bay, homeport of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., [...]