JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Rear Adm. Gene Brooks, Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard District signed a memorandum of understanding at the Capital Building Friday to renew relationships between the State of Alaska and the Seventeenth Coast Guard District concerning non-commercial boating safety programs and mutual enforcement of laws relating to boating safety [...]
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Coast Guard responds to grounded vessel
MORRO BAY, Calif. — U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles – Long Beach received a report of a 30-foot sailing vessel that ran aground a half mile south of Morro Bay with three people aboard at 9:41 a.m. Friday.
Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron gets new commander
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Capt. Joseph T. Baker assumed command of the Coast Guard’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Friday at the HITRON facility at Cecil Field in Jacksonville.
Baker assumed the command of more than 233 personnel and 10 armed MH-65C dolphin helicopters. HITRON is America’s first and only airborne law enforcement unit trained and authorized to [...]
Marina del Rey based Coast Guard Cutter Halibut to hold Change-of-Command
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. – The Command of Coast Guard Cutter Halibut will be transferred from Lt. Paul J. Miller to Lt.j.g. Charles Paris in a change-of-command ceremony being held at the cutter’s mooring in Marina Del Rey on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
Integrated Support Command Kodiak Change of Command
KODIAK, Alaska – Coast Guard Integrated Support Command will hold a change of command ceremony at 10 a.m. on Friday at Kodiak’s Northern Lights Recreation Facility Fitness Center. Captain Jesse K. Moore will relieve Capt. Mark S. Carmel as commanding officer of Integrated Support Command Kodiak in a formal ceremony. Captain Robert E. [...]