AUXAIR: Coast Guard’s volunteer ice hunters
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jetta Disco
NEW YORK – Coast Guard Auxiliarist Ron Kaplan arrived at the fixed-base operator (FBO) bright and early on a cold dark February Saturday morning dressed in a sage green flight suit with matching bomber jacket, glasses and neatly groomed blondish-gray hair and goatee. He walked in, with a black business briefcase in tow, and was greeted by the manager...