Coast Guard icebreaker returns home after four-month Arctic deployment
Senior Chief Matthew Fritchey speaks to members of the media at the Coast Guard Base in Seattle after U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) returned to homeport, Nov.11, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier)
SEATTLE — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) returned to its Seattle homeport Friday following a historic 17,000-mile, 124-day deployment in the high Arctic...
Coast Guard icebreaker returns home after 124-day Arctic deployment
Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew members and science team enjoy ice liberty at the North Pole, Oct. 2, 2022. U.S. Coast Guard video photo by Chief Petty Officer Roy Mesen Scott.
SEATTLE — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) is scheduled to return home to Seattle, Friday, following a historic 17,000-mile, 124-day deployment in the high Arctic latitudes that included a transit to the North Pole.
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Coast Guard Cutter Healy reaches the North Pole
The U.S. Coast Guard Healy (WAGB-20) transits through multi-year pack ice in the Arctic Ocean as the cutter approaches the North Pole, Sept. 27, 2022. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Deborah Heldt Cordone, Auxiliary Public Affairs Specialist 1.
NORTH POLE — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) reached the North Pole Friday after traversing the frozen Arctic Ocean, marking only the second time...
Coast Guard participates in search and rescue exercise at North Pole
The sun shines over the camp where participants endure a 24-hour survival exercise in the North Pole, Sept. 7, 2021. Photo by Lt. Cmdr. Aaron Riutta.
JUNEAU, Alaska – Members from the Seventeenth Coast Guard District participated in an international search and rescue exercise at the North Pole, September 1-15, 2021.
Two Seventeenth Coast Guard District personnel, Lt. Cmdr. Aaron Riutta and Mr. Paul...
Coast Guard Cutter Healy reaches North Pole during historic expedition
The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Geotraces science team have their portrait taken at the North Pole Sept. 7, 2015. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall)
ARCTIC OCEAN — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole Sept. 5, 2015, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied. This is also only the fourth...
