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10 Cover Story The Heartland Guardians 18 Story by PA3 Thomas Blue, 8th Dist. USCG Photo Marvin Perrett, 81, World War II icon Thursday, May 10, 2007, By Paul Purpura Features arvin Perrett, who as a teenager in the beach landings in Higgins boats on Lake MCoast Guard drove troops ashore during Pontchartrain. Seasonal Switch 10 World War II amphibious invasions in New “I thought, ‘Boy, that looks pretty Story by PA3 Angelia Rorison, PADET New York Orleans-built landing craft, died Sunday at dangerous, I don’t want any part of that,’” he Kanawha Kruisin’ 12 his home in Metairie. He was 81. said. “Wouldn’t that just be my dumb luck. Story by PA3 Thomas Blue, 8th Dist. Born in New Orleans on Sept. 17, 1925, That was the exact assignment I received.” Mr. Perrett was the adopted son of a World He participated in the June 6, 1944, D-Day Buoy Tender Lights Up 16 War I Army veteran and his wife. He attended invasion, launching his Higgins boat from the Story by PA3 Annie Berlin, PADET New York Warren Easton High School. At age 17, he USS Bayfield about 2:30 a.m., about 12 miles 24 wanted to enlist in the Navy, but his father, off the Normandy coast. Blue Print 24 who was wounded in the First World War, In his first of two trips ashore that day, Mr. Stories by PA2 Kip Wadlow, 5th Dist. and PA2 Judy Silverstein, USCGR barred him from doing so. Perrett, an 18-year-old coxswain’s mate A year later, he went to a Navy recruiter’s second class, delivered 36 soldiers of the Chief’s Academy 30 office in downtown New Orleans, but the Army’s 4th Division to Utah Beach, about 7 Story by PA1 Alan Haraf, 11th Dist. recruiter steered him to the Coast Guard. By a.m. In his second trip, he safely delivered nightfall, he had enlisted. the 4th Division’s commander, Maj. Gen. R.O. Operation Contained Fury 32 Widely known for wearing a replica Coast Barton, and the general’s vehicle. Story by Lt. Shawn Lansing, Sector Los Angelas - Long Beach Guard combat uniform to tell his war stories A month later, Mr. Perrett participated in to students and service members, Mr. Perrett the invasion of southern France, and then Fire & Ice 34 made his last speaking appearance May 2, of Iwo Jima in February 1945. It was there Story and photos by PA2 Kip Wadlow, 5th Dist. when he piloted a relic boat in Lake that his Higgins boat sank, leaving him and Lifetime of Service 38 Pontchartrain near the Coast Guard station his three crewmates briefly stranded on the Story by PA1 Anastasia Devlin, 11th Dist. in Bucktown, where the duty room is named beach. He later took part in the invasion of in his honor. Okinawa. Quillayute River: 10 Years Later 40 “He is just an absolute icon within the eyes “The students to this day would ask me, 34 Story by PA3 Jeffrey Pollinger, 13th Dist. of Coast Guard members, and he will truly be ‘Well, Mr. Perrett, were you shot at?’ I said, missed,” said Capt. Frank Paskewich, captain ‘You’re darn right we were shot at,’ and Life Saving Tradition 42 of the Port of New Orleans and commander of what would happen, maybe like a city block Story by PA3 Eric Chandler, 17th Dist. Sector New Orleans. “Right up to his last few from the beach I’d see out ahead of me the days, he was busy speaking about his machine gun bullets hitting the water and experiences during World War II. We are cascading 10 feet high, and this is in front blessed to be a part of his last week.” of me,” Mr. Perrett said June 18, 2003, for a “Losing him was like losing a historical Coast Guard oral history program. artifact,” said Petty Officer 1st Class In June 2004, on the 60th anniversary of NyxoLyno Cangemi, who was befriended the D-Day invasion, Mr. Perrett was one of by Mr. Perret him three years ago. “It’s a 100 World War II veterans from the United great loss, and it’s a loss felt throughout our States invited by the French government to country, and throughout humanity. Marvin attend ceremonies in France. The French may be gone, but the story he shared with so government awarded him its Knights of the many people throughout the world will live on Legion of Honor medal. forever.” The Coast Guard also presented Mr. Perrett Departments Mr. Perrett was passionate about New with its Distinguished Public Service Award, Up Front Orleans. He authored and self-published two its highest civilian honor. He was made an 2 books on the city’s history, “Nostalgia: honorary chief petty officer by the Chief Petty All Coast 6 Lifestyle of Old New Orleans,” and “More Officers Association chapter in New Orleans. Nostalgia.” He donated his body for research at Tulane Log Book 44 He found that a missing piece of the city’s Medical School, a decision he often revealed On The Cover The patch and coin of history was a monument to industrialist to people with his usual humor, Cook said: Sector Ohio Valley, proudly proclaim that they are Andrew Higgins, whose landing craft, widely “Oh, did you hear I’m going to Tulane?” the “Protector of the Heartland.” — Page 18 known as Higgins boats, played a key role in In addition to his daughter, he is survived Illustration by CG Magazine Staff the World War II amphibious invasions, said by his son-in-law and two grandchildren. Mr. Perrett’s daughter, Melissa Perrett Cook of Chicago. Mr. Perrett said in a Coast Guard interview Reprinted with permission from that as a young man he witnessed practice The Times-Piscayune Up Front Bird of Prey An MH-68A Stingray helicopter from Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron in Jacksonville, Fla., maneuvers over a Coast Guard tacti- cal training boat off Jacksonville, March 27. After the pilot maneuvers the helicopter into position, a gunner aboard the helicopter will simulate shooting out the engines of the boat. The tactical training boat is designed to mirror a high-speed drug smuggling boat used in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Aircrews from HITRON deploy aboard Coast Guard cutters to stop smugglers in known transit zones throughout the Pacific and the Caribbean. The armed helicopter interdiction unit has stopped 114 go-fasts since 1998, preventing more than $8 billion worth of illegal narcotics from hitting U.S. streets.

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3 Up Front Spring Buoy Run The crew of the CGC Elderberry sets buoys marking the onset of spring and the upcoming recreational boating season in the Gastineua Channel, Alaska, March 22. The seasonal buoys mark potential hazards and aid boaters in navigation. Photo by PA3 Eric Chandler, 17th Dist.

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Stories may be reprinted except • Associated Press wire stories Issue 3 and articles reprinted from other publications. • Correction: The cover photo of 2007 p A Daughter’s Love Autumn Fairall, 10, clutches her father, ET1 Martin Issue 2, 2007, had an incorrect p Black-Tie Visit A curious penguin checks out the CGC Polar Sea after the ship stopped briefly to host Fairall, tightly upon return of the CGC Midgett to Coast Guard Sector Seattle, March 16. photo credit and cutline. The members of the National Science Foundation, March 15. The Polar Sea was in Antarctica as part of Operation Deep photo was taken by PA2 Luke The Midgett returned after a six-month deployment overseas, where they conducted law Pinneo, 1st Dist. Freeze 2007, clearing a navigable channel for supply ships to get needed goods and equipment to personnel working at enforcement operations in the Caribbean with the BOXER Expeditionary Strike Group. McMurdo Station. Photo by PA3 Kevin Neff, 11th Dist. Photo by PA3 Tara Molle, 13th Dist. 7 All Coast t Drugs BM2 Nathan Thomas, Law Enforcement Detachment 409 of TACLET South in Miami, muscles a 70- pound bale of pure cocaine to off-load it from the USS McInerney in Mayport, Fla., April 5. The USS McInerney had more than 30,000 pounds of cocaine from two separate busts in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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u Sunset Ops A 33-foot Special Purpose Craft - Law Enforcement boat from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island, Texas, speeds through the water during a training exercise, May 9. The station is equipped with these high-speed boats to help combat the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. p Wild Ride Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff rides aboard this Coast Guard 47-foot motor lifeboat in heavy surf off Cape Disappointment, Wash., March 24. Photo by PA1 Adam Eggers, Photo by Barry Bahler, Dept. of Homeland Security PADET Houston t High Flying Event Two Coast Guard HH-65C Dolphin helicopters from Air Station Miami fly over Stadium Court immediately following the opening ceremonies for the men’s tennis championship

match April 1 during the Sony www.uscg.mil/magazine Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla. More than 14,000 fans watched the 19-year-old Serbian Novak Djokovic become the youngest player in history to win the men’s title.

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u Ice Cutters CGC Katmai Bay and CGC Mobile Bay • breaks out and escorts sthe ice Issue 3 bound Tug Michigan in the Makinaw Straits near Sault Ste. • Marie, Mich., 2007 Through a veil of rain, a Coast Guard boarding team moves swiftly during a Feb. 7. p Practiced Precision training exercise in Boston Harbor April 27 aboard the commercial vessel, Spirit of Boston. Coast Guard members Photo by FS2 Daniel Punturo, from the Maritime Safety and Security Team’s of Boston and New Orleans participated in a week-long training CGC Katmai Bay, exercise that ended with a training operation aboard the commercial vessel. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Photo by PA3 Etta Smith, 1st Dist. 9 Story and photos by Seasonal PA3 Angelia Rorison, PADET New York awn breaks and the tide and waves.” envelops the northern “The large chunks of ice push New Jersey shoreline down the regular buoys under the with a golden glow water and damage the buoy and D p Hammer Time FN Ryan on an early December morning lighting equipment attached to it,” Stevenson from Aids to Navigation Switch as a boat crew from Aids to added Wright. team New York releases the moor- Navigation Team New York Seasonal buoy operations begin ing gear from a foam lighted buoy braves the bitter cold winds of the in different waterways at different during a seasonal buoy evolution in Shrewsbury River, N.J., embark- times of the winter season. The the Shrewsbury River, N.J., Dec. 12, 2006. ing on their annual winter buoy dates are listed by local charts change. and light lists for each particular has been dubbed “clip and goes.” “The importance of the buoy waterway. The buoy deck can be a dan- change is for the mariner,” said The ANT began their mission gerous place and safety is a top BMCS Joseph Wright, officer in in the Shrewsbury River for the priority. charge of ANT NY. “Most people 2007 season on Dec. 15, 2006. “Teamwork is critical on don’t realize the damage ice can They changed out 60 aids in three the buoy deck during seasonal cause. They think, even I did, that days, two days ahead of schedule. evolutions to ensure the job ice just freezes and stays still, but Using the crane on their 49-foot gets done and everyone goes in a channel, the ice moves with Boat Utility Stern Loading vessel, home safe,” said BM2 Joshua the crew lifts the foam Namowitz. buoys onto the deck The camaraderie and close-knit guided by the directions bond that develops between the of the buoy deck supervi- buoy deck crew makes this one of sor. The buoy deck crew the most gratifying and fun jobs in

then detaches the moor- the service, said Namowitz. www.uscg.mil/magazine ing gear and reattaches Spring will come and bring it to the new steel-hulled warm weather, sunshine, fresh buoy. Once the new gear foliage and the switch from steel- is secured, the winter hulled buoys to lighted foam buoy is released back buoys. ANT NY will then again into the water. These “clip and go” throughout the Coast Guard evolutions can be done waterways of NY and NJ, ensur- swiftly by a veteran crew, ing properly marked channels and which is why the process safe travel for mariners. • Issue 3 t Ready on Deck BM3 John Hemphill (right), FN Tim Johnson and FN Ryan Stevenson from Aids to •

Navigation team New York lift a foam lighted buoy out of the 2007 Running the Show BM3 John Hemp- water during a seasonal buoy evolution in the Shrewsbury River, hill calls commands and gives hand signals N.J., Dec. 12, 2006. for the crane operator during a seasonal buoy evolution in the Shrewsbury River, N.J., Dec. 12, 2006. 11 A River For A Road The CCG Kanawha pushes through fog near Pine Bluff, Ark., in December. The 75-foot Kanawha Kruisin’ river tender is one of 16 Eigth District inland river tenders and covers more than 150 miles of the Arkansas, White and Story and photos by PA3 Thomas Blue, 8th Dist. Mississippi river systems.

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the crew is responsible for “In the summertime, the crew more waterway traffic than any servicing 425 floating is constantly moving buoys to other river system in America. Unpredictability keeps inland tender navigational aids, and more widen or narrow the channel so Billions of dollars of economic than 90 shore aids, which the the buoys have the right amount trade from around the world at the top of its game crew must brush cut around. of water under them,” said moves up and down the river Coast Guard Brush cutting is done to ensure Piland. each year. It is the job of the he fog lifts and The Kanawha is one of 16 BMCM Randy Merrick, the the undergrowth does not grow The river stages change on a Kanawha, along with other visibility increases. Coast Guard inland river Kanawha’s commanding officer. above the daily basis. The command has inland river tenders in the Coast The diesel engines tenders responsible for “We run this boat hard, and the beacons. an old but established formula Guard’s fleet, to ensure the aids • knock and the deck maintaining the Western River’s crew maintains it so we can In addition to the annual used when setting buoys. The to navigation beacons are in Issue 2 department crew aids to navigation in the Eigth continue to do the job,” he servicing, the crew of the 10-day river stage forecast from place and working properly. are busy preparing for the District. added. Kanawha also repositions the the Army Corp of Engineers and “We have to ensure the buoys

T • trip’s work. With one sound “This 75-foot tender and The Kanawha’s area of floating aids, as needed, to give the weather forecast from the are on-station, to keep commer- 2007 of the ship’s whistle, the CGC 130-foot work barge and crane responsibility consists of more commercial and recreational National Weather Service are cial traffic running smoothly up Kanawha leaves its homeport was commissioned into the fleet than 150 miles of river, boaters the safest possible the determining factors on the and down the Mississippi River,” of Pine Bluff, Ark., and steams in 1969 and is still performing spanning the Arkansas, White route to transit, explained BMC placement of the buoys, Merrick said Merrick. “If the buoys and down the Arkansas River toward the job it was constructed for and Mississippi river systems. Charles Piland, the cutter’s explained. markers aren’t right, there could the “Mighty” Mississippi. almost 40-years ago,” said Within the Kanawha’s AOR, executive petty officer. The Mississippi River handles be a mess on the river.” 23 The Kanawha is not only a working cutter, but also a floating office for the command and crew. “Underway, we are always t Splish Splash working, said Merrick. “We’re Crewmembers aboard the CGC either setting and pulling buoys, Kanawha release a drop board training, working on qualification to set a buoy on the Mississippi packages or conducting some type River in December. The crew of the of maintenance.” Kanawha is responsible for 425 The inland river tenders are old cutters and maintenance and floating navigational aids and more repairs can accumulate. Routine than 90 shore aids, which the crew rounds of the cutter keep the must brush-cut around to ensure engineering department constantly undergrowth does not grow above working. the beacons. “We keep up with the mainte- nance the best we can,” said MKC q DC2 Patrick Jonathan Mills, the Kanawha’s Clear view Moran pays close attention to a engineering petty officer. “We’ve been fortunate to not have major buoy evolution aboard the CGC problems like some of the other Kanawha last December. Moran is boats have had. With such a small one of 14 crewmembers who call crew, there is a lot of opportunity the Kanawha home. for junior members to gain p Maintenance Maven DC2 Patrick Moran conducts underway knowledge and understanding.” maintenance aboard the CGC Kanawha. The 75-foot tender and 130-foot work Along with maintenance and barge and crane were commissioned into the fleet in 1969 and require constant repairs, the crew must contend attention from the engineering department to keep them mission ready. with the high temperatures of the summer. “The deck of the work barge can easily reach tempera- u Tip Top BM3 Jesse tures in an excess of 100 degrees Biggers conducts annual Fahrenheit in the summertime,” service on a navigational said Piland. aid on the White River in To be able to handle the extreme Arkansas in December. All temperatures and the long hours navigational beacons along on the deck, the Kanawha’s crew the White River are required must be in top physical condition. to have annual service to “We have a stationary bike and ensure the lights and a weight set, so we can work-out and stay in shape while under- dayboards are working way,” said DC2 Patrick Moran, the CGC Kanawha crewmembers enjoy properly. p Downtime www.uscg.mil/magazine Kanawha’s damage control a reprieve from working buoys last December. The Pine specialist. “Since we are underway Bluff, Ark.-based inland river tender is underway every other every other week, we try to have week maintaining aids-to-navigation on 150 miles of river. some of the same amenities as if we were in port.” No matter if it’s servicing aids, u Holding On Tight conducting maintenance, training BM2 Scott Lussier, the deck or staying in shape, the Kanawha’s supervisor aboard the CGC crew accomplishes all of this and Kanawha, secures a range Coast Guard still maintains aids to navigation tower base to the deck of on more than 150-miles of river. the work barge on the White “We’re never in the papers, we just enjoy what we do,” said River in December. Range • Merrick. “The job satisfaction towers are one type of the Issue 3 comes instantly, as soon as the day 98 shore aids Kanawha is over.” crewmembers maintain. • 2007

15 Buoy Tender Lights Up Channel In A Whole New Way Story and photos by PA3 Annie Berlin, PADET New York

M2 Greg Shriver carefully steps up onto the was much more technical and complicated, not an chain, then onto the lower bars at the base of easy task when balancing close to 30 feet in the air B the buoy before hauling himself up to the top. atop a buoy. Even though he is wearing a safety harness “It’s an awkward place to work because you don’t and has climbed buoys like this many times, he is still have much room,” said Shriver. “You find yourself get- cautious when he climbs up to change out a lamp or ting into all these little awkward positions. Most of the repair a solar panel. time you have to get two people up there, which can get Shriver, who is an aids to navigation technician, is tricky.” installing one of the first of many light emitting diode Although climbing to the top of a buoy will still provide units that the Coast Guard is beginning to implement its own obstacles, the new LED will be easier to install throughout the nation. Program managers at Coast and will require less time and equipment. Guard Headquarters say “With the LED, you take that by 2008, 50 percent it out of the box, grab a of incandescent lights on remote and you program buoys will be replaced You find yourself getting into all it. It’s just this little unique with self-contained LED these little awkward positions. package that has every- lanterns. thing right there in this little The LEDs have many Most of the time you have to get box,” Shriver added. benefits both to the mari- “ Working on a buoy two people up there, which can ner and the crew respon- deck is hard work. sible for maintaining the get tricky. During a typical day, the navigational aids. BM2 Greg Shriver, deck crew musters at 7 www.uscg.mil/magazine The new LED lanterns CGC Juniper a.m. to hear a safety brief are compact units installed and then go to work. The on the tops of buoys ” crew uses a large crane strategically placed to create a safe channel for mari- to hoist the heavy buoy onto the deck. They secure it ners. They are a much more efficient alternative to their down tight to the deck, scrape a year’s worth of bar- aged counterpart, which has a solar panel on top and a nacles off the sides and then do maintenance. Except for large battery in a compartment at the base of the buoy. meal breaks and the short transit time between buoys, “One of the main advantages of the LED is that it is the crew works non-stop until sunset hauling in buoys Coast Guard totally self contained,” said Lt. Cmdr. Rick Wester, com- from their watching spots along the channel. Thanks to manding officer of the CGC Juniper, a 225-foot buoy ten- the new LEDs, the crews with one of the hardest, most der homeported in Newport, R.I. Wester and the Juniper physically demanding jobs in the Coast Guard now have •

crew visited New York Harbor recently and replaced the it a little easier. Issue 3 old buoy setup with LEDs. “This will allow us to weld shut “Our workload is definitely going to be lighter. The battery pockets on buoys,” continued Wester. “With the amount of buoys we’ll have to work is the same, but the •

current configuration, battery pockets can flood, extin- LED lanterns make the maintenance easier,” added BMC 2007 guishing the light and requiring maintenance.” Kat McSweeney, a supervisor on the buoy deck of the Although the price of an LED is comparable to tradi- Juniper. tional incandescent lights, program managers believe that the reduction in required maintenance will save the u Buoy Bash The deck crew on the CGC Juniper Coast Guard money in the long run. prepare to bring a buoy onboard for maintenance in the The old incandescent panel installation process Sandy Hook Channel in New Jersey on Dec. 7, 2006. 17 Sector Ohio Valley THE HEARTLAND

ne of the most common misperceptions From the sector’s office located in downtown pertaining to the Coast Guard is just Louisville, Ky., the strategic mission objectives and that…“coast” guard. On the contrary, as the responsibilities of Sector Ohio Valley cover nine the oldest, continuous sea-going service in states, 11 rivers, 29 lakes, 210 dams, 8,000 miles of the U.S., the Coast Guard is responsible navigable waterways and 84 navigational locks. Ofor a lot more than just protecting the U.S. coastline, One of three sectors located in America’s Heartland, Story by PA3 Thomas Blue, 8th Dist. just ask anyone from Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley. SOHV’s borders range from the eastern portion of Guardians Homeland security, search and rescue, Missouri to the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania environmental protection, port and waterway security, and from the northern point of Alabama to Ohio. industrial facility inspections, maintaining aids to Protecting commerce throughout the eastern navigation and enforcement of laws do not stop at the portion of the Western River System is one of the coast, but extend inward throughout the U.S. largest responsibilities of Sector Ohio Valley. “Through completing our missions within the sector, we maintain a safe and efficient inland waterway system,” said Capt. John R. Bingaman, commanding officer of Sector Ohio Valley. “Maintaining the safe flow of commerce along the river system is a major part of what we do.” The U.S. economic impact of the river system is measured at approximately $45 billon dollars annually and protecting that commerce is a task that requires regulating the waterways through enforcing laws and maintaining aids to navigation.

SOHV AT-A-GLANCE • Military personnel: 465 • Headquarters: Louisville, Ky.

• Geographic Area: Nine States, 11 major www.uscg.mil/magazine rivers, 29 major lakes, 84 navigational locks, 8,000 miles of navigable waterways with 3,000 miles used commercially • Economic interests protected: $45 billion • Units: Six inland buoy tenders, three marine safety units, two marine safety detachments, five shore-side support detachments, and 12 Coast Guard small boats • Auxiliarists: 1,400 Photo by PA2 Kelly Turner, USCGR • Issue 3

t Tall Security Order GM2 Mike Sawicki from Marine Safety and Security Team, Galveston, Texas, • assists local, state and federal law enforcement during 2007 the annual Tall Stacks riverboat festival on the Ohio River in Cincinnati in 2006.

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Enforcing laws, conducting marine inspections, marine environmental response and conducting marine investigations are the missions of the more than 250 active-duty and 183 reserve members of the Marine Safety Units and Marine Safety Detachments stationed throughout the sector. In addition to enforcing laws, Sector Ohio Valley protects the river system by maintaining aids to navigation and activating the Vessel Traffic System (VTS). The crews of the six 65-foot and 75-foot inland river tenders placed throughout Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania perform maintenance on 5,620 aids to navigation located along 3,000 miles of

navigable rivers. Photo by PA2 NyxoLyno Cangemi, 8th Dist. The river tender’s services include repairing and replacing navigational lights, ensuring buoys are in the correct position and brush-cutting around shore aids. This maintenance allows the river channels to remain open to transit and decreases the commercial towboats potential for running aground. “This is hard, important work the crew performs,” said BMCM Brian Williams, the officer in charge of the CGC Obion, a 65-foot inland river tender, homeported in Owensboro, Ky. “After one underway p Canine Crewman BM3 Alex Parrey trip, the newest members on the cutter understand disembarks from the Keystone Belle with his bomb-sniff- how important our job is… how important it is to ing dog Sparky after they conducted a security sweep keeping the river open to vessels.” Illustration by PA1 Mike O’Berry, CG Magazine The job of the VTS in Louisville is to monitor of the clipper ship. Parrey is a member of the Maritime water levels and manage commercial vessel traffic Safety and Security Team 91108 canine unit, and was in the Ohio River from mile marker 592 to 606. augmenting security forces during Major League Baseball Surveillance of this stretch of river is done with the All-Star Game events in Pittsburgh on July 11, 2006.

q Comm Deck The CGC Obion, a 65-foot inland river tender homeported in Owensboro, Ky., prepares to moore along the riverbank in Louisville, Ky., April 19 to provide communication support for Sector Ohio Valley during the Thunder Over Louisville festivities. The Obion is one of six inland river tenders serving Sector Ohio Valley.

www.uscg.mil/magazine p Heartland Protectors Sector Ohio Valley, headquartered in Louisville, Ky., encompasses nine states and more than 8,000 miles of navigable waterways. The 465 military personnel and more than 1,400 auxiliarists manage the full spectrum of Coast Guard missions along the “invisible coast.”

t A Sample of Responsibility A smallboat crew from Sector Ohio Valley gathers water soundings along the Ohio

River near Louisville, Ky., during high water Coast Guard levels April 19. High and low river tables are one of the SOHV’s concerns in ensuring a safe and efficient river system. Protecting Photo by PA3 Thomas Blue, 8th Dist. Photo by PA3 Thomas Blue, 8th Dist.

commerce throughout the eastern portion • of the Western River System is one of the Issue 3 largest responsibiities of Sector Ohio Valley. The nation’s two largest inland ports • (Huntington and Pittsburgh) are located 2007 here, and the total economic impact of the river system is measured at $45 billion.

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help of video cameras and by monitoring marine radio communications to receive the most updated Housing: All members live on information from vessels transiting the river. MSU Pittsburgh the economy. There is affordable Coordination between the Coast Guard VTS and housing located both in the city of Pittsburgh and the surrounding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ensures that UNIT SPOTLIGHT proper measures are taken to safely manage the suburbs in a variety of cost ranges. flow of traffic through downtown Louisville and into MSU Pittsburgh is McAlpine Locks. Facilities: located in downtown Pittsburgh. “The activation of the VTS is extremely important A fitness facility for the crew when dealing with a hazardous, high-water is located in the building, and environment because it helps ensure one-way traffic the unit’s boats are housed at is maintained for vessels transiting into a restricted Neville Island on the Ohio River. area that experiences strong currents and outdrafts,” Photo by Cmdr. Steve Wischmann, MSU Pittsburgh Commissaries and morale, welfare Bingaman said. and recreation offices are located Along with maintaining safe navigation on the at two nearby military bases. river, Sector Ohio Valley personnel also assist local agencies with search and rescue response and Education: Personnel can participate in community relations events throughout pursue higher education at more the year. than a dozen area colleges Members of Sector Ohio Valley also participate and universities, including the in several community relations events by providing Community College of Allegheny waterway safety zones and educating boaters on County, Carnegie Mellon University boating safety, given by the Coast Guard Auxiliary. and the University of Pittsburgh. “The more than 1,400 auxiliary members play a Point Park University is literally two key role in educating the public,” Bingaman said. p MSU Pittsburgh performs the full array of Three Rivers Role blocks from the unit. “They are great educators on safe boating practices.” Coast Guard safety and security missions among the unit’s 328-mile AOR.

A few of the community relations events include; Photo by PA3 James Harless, 8th Dist. Weather: Expect highs in the River Fest Cincinnati, Tall Stacks, Thunder on the 80’s in July and lows in the 20’s in Ohio and Thunder Over Louisville, which is the January. largest fireworks display in North America. Steel City Sentries “Sector Ohio Valley is an extremely busy place to be stationed,” said Bingaman. “We are constantly Story by Lt. j.g. Jesse Garrant, MSU Pittsburgh safety and security missions in action. Outdoors enthusiasts working to complete our missions and take pride in including boarding or inspecting will find everything from roller- accomplishing them.” commercial and recreational blading and kayaking to skiing and ocated on the triangle of land Maritime security, maritime mobility, maritime vessels, enforcing safety zones or mountain climbing in nearby local, safety, protection of natural resources and national where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join to inspecting facilities in the unit’s county and state parks. Those defense are all missions of the Coast Guard, but 328-mile area of responsibility, who prefer wildlife of the urban L form the Ohio, Pittsburgh has been www.uscg.mil/magazine these same missions are also carried out by members a strategically important location which covers southwestern sort will find a thriving nightlife, stationed throughout sectors like Sector Ohio for more than 200 years. In the Pennsylvania as well as parts of including nightclubs, concerts Valley, which truly makes them “protectors of the 1700’s, the French and later, the Ohio and West Virginia. and a nationally recognized heartland.” British, built forts here knowing “MSU Pittsburgh is a dynamic theatre district. Cultural buffs will that whoever controlled the area unit running boat operations to appreciate the city’s museums, u Multi-Mission (Top) Crews from Sector Ohio would have access to waterways marine inspections to waterways including the Andy Warhol Valley provide waterway security during the Thunder leading all the way to the Gulf of management in a complex urban Museum, devoted to one of Over Louisville fireworks display in 2006. Twelve Mexico. Today, Pittsburgh is the and geographic area,” said Cmdr. Pittsburgh’s famous native sons. Defender Class small boats in six locations provide quick second largest inland tonnage Steven Wischmann, commanding Anyone wishing to work with the Coast Guard response to maritime emergencies and assist local and port in the nation and serves as a officer of MSU Pittsburgh. “We local community will find ample state agencies with search and rescue cases. (Right) point of origin and termination for operate in an environment that is opportunities to do so. From One of 21 Disaster Assistance Response Team commerce on the western rivers, very challenging and very gratifying volunteering at the local Veteran’s Photo by PA3 Reed, 8th Dist. Robert overseen by the men and women of — we are a small unit with a big hospital to cleaning the streets of boatcrews from SOHV help a Hurricane Katrina victim • Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh. mission.” Pittsburgh, crewmembers of the Issue 3 jump to dry land after the DART rescued him from his MSU Pittsburgh is located in There are numerous ways to MSU take pride in working with flooded New Orleans home on Sept. 6, 2005. downtown Pittsburgh. The unit’s spend off-duty hours. Sports area residents. •

two Defender Class small boats are enthusiasts can watch the Steelers, If you are looking for an exciting 2007 moored at nearby Neville Island. Pirates and Penguins take on their career challenge in a friendly city, Personnel will find themselves major league opponents, or catch put MSU Pittsburgh on your dream performing the full range of marine any of the many local college teams sheet.

Sector Ohio Valley 23 lueprin B On Leadership T Coast Guard Leadership and Management School Story by PA2 Kip Wadlow, 5th Dist.

rom heart stopping, adrenaline-laced emergencies, LAMS to the mundane, day-to-day routine of training personnel and maintaining rescue and law The Leadership and Management School is one of the tools the Coast enforcement equipment, Coast Guardsmen are Guard uses to prepare its up-and-coming leaders. The week-long course Fcalled upon to use judgment, teamwork — and most of all — is geared toward both active duty and reserve Coast Guard officers and leadership to accomplish their missions. enlisted members in middle management positions. The Coast Guard also provides LAMS training to its civilian employees and auxiliary members. “The major goal of LAMS is to ensure that we (the instructors) are Note: “Completion of LAMS will be mandatory training the front line supervisors,” said CWO4 Troy Riedel, Chief of the for all active duty and reserve E-5 seeking LAMS training detachment at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, Va. eligibility for advancement to E-6 Effective Jan. 1, 2009.”

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l (men’tor, -ter), n. istorically, the word mentorship has its origins in the Greek epic Men tor Hpoem, “The Odyssey,” written by Homer. When Odysseus left to fight in the Trojan War, he selected Mentor to serve as teacher, guide 1. a wise and trusted counselor and wise counsel to his son. In the Coast Guard, mentoring involves advocacy, guidance, support and listening skills. or teacher. 2. an influential senior “If you do not have a mentor, you’re doing yourself a disservice,”

said Lt. Cdr. Adrian West, Special Assistant to the Commandant. “If Coast Guard sponsor or supporter. — men’torlship’, n. you aren’t mentoring someone else, you are doing the Coast Guard a disservice.” Those words are critical as mentoring results in future leaders, an especially important focus for our multi-mission, maritime service. Story by • Issue 3 PA2 Judy Silverstein, USCGR See “Mentor” page 28 • 2006

23 “There is a survival scenario that we put students class comes from when I was a MST3 working for problem solving tool,” Hanna said. “Leadership...” through to see if they can survive as a team, a lot of mid-level and upper managers who were incorporating exercises (to) make the students work very poor leaders. It had such an impact on me as a Repeat Attendees “The First Class Petty Officer or E-6 pay grade is together,” Riedel said. Third Class Petty Officer that I started to hate that pretty much the middle of the Coast Guard. In a lot of The classroom-based scenario puts the students unit and hate the Coast Guard, and I wanted to get The Coast Guard encourages personnel E-5 and jobs out there, whether it’s at small boat stations, into a simulated remote wilderness environment. The out of the service,” Shipperley said. above to retake the class every three years to marine safety offices or onboard cutters, you have students are required to use teamwork to decide how A change of leadership, however, turned maintain leadership proficiency and keep them up Second Class Petty Officers and E-6s in positions of to best use the resources provided to them in order to Shipperley’s opinion of the unit around and to date on new leadership techniques. leadership and they are supervising junior personnel survive. motivated him to stay in the Coast Guard. The International LAMS class that Hanna was and it’s very important that we give those people the One of the techniques the instructors use to “If I can have an impact on these people, the the student in was the second that YN2 Jose Orta, tools so that they can be successful being supervisors accomplish this is to keep the students on the same junior officers and enlisted people, before they get to Coast Guard Command Atlantic Area, Portsmouth, and being leaders,” Riedel said. level, by removing rank from the class. that higher-up level, I hope to give them Va., has attended. “We try and teach in civilian clothes at commands Communicating is the Key different ideas and tools for leading and managing Orta said his favorite part of the class was the that allow it. That removes our shoulder boards and their subordinates. Hopefully by the time they’re in role playing scenarios because they gave him the collar devices allowing us to be on the same level and these senior leadership positions they won’t be the The course focuses on team building and opportunity to use what he learned. The humor treat each other as equals,” Riedel said. sort of people I had to experience as a junior enlisted communications by putting the students through helped put him at ease and made it comfortable During the course, instructors put students into person,” Shipperley said. several scenarios requiring them to come together in for him to pay more attention to the course situations they will face in the field, involving order to accomplish their assigned tasks. materials. motivating employees while correcting trouble. Keeping Class Fun “I think taking the class with international The classroom provides a non-threatening students made it very unique. You will encounter environment that allows students to make Instructors also make laughter a key element of and experience a cultural mix, you get to know their mistakes without fear of punishment for LAMS by sharing lessons-learned and sea stories background, customs and courtesies and the improperly handling a situation. It also allows from comical experiences that they’ve experienced. difference in ethics. That, I think, made the class instructors to step in and guide them to a “Laughter is an indicator of enjoyment and better than any other LAMS class that I attended,” more empathetic involvement. Emotion provides us with Orta explained. appropriate solution so they can be more the strongest memory,” said instructor MKCS Paul successful and effective when they encounter Miller. Techniques That Work Everywhere those same “If a person enjoys what they are doing, wants scenarios in real life, Riedel explained. to be involved where they are, then learning and The Coast Guard presents LAMS as being a “We try to make the class as interactive as growth will take place. Interaction is vital in professional development tool and it is, but it’s also possible. There are many people out there leadership and learning,” Miller said. a personal development tool, Riedel said. that believe in the philosophy of death-by- The Coast Guard uses LAMS as a building block Power Point so there is very, very minimal Not Just for Coast Guard Members for the Chief’s Academy, the Coast Guard’s Power Point. We try and use turn charts and a leadership course for senior enlisted personnel E-7 lot of role playing,” Riedel said. The Coast Guard doesn’t restrict teaching LAMS

and above. “Over the years we’ve compiled all kinds of only to Coast Guard members. They also teach the www.uscg.mil/magazine real life scenarios. We pride ourselves on system to foreign military members as well. Everyone Benefits using these real life examples of things that Lt. Michael Hanna, a 20-year veteran of the Royal have happened in the field to either ourselves Bahamas Defense Force, was one of several military By taking the lessons they learned at LAMS or people that we have known to try and make members from a foreign country in attendance at a with them, graduates pass valuable leadership it realistic,” Riedel said. recent LAMS course held at Coast Guard Training Photo by PA2 Kip Wadlow, 5th Dist. techniques to more people. This allows the Coast Drawing Motivation to Teach Center Yorktown. Guard to develop positive leadership and “The instructors were very knowledgeable, very management techniques in junior personnel

from Past Experiences Coast Guard professional and very patient and accommodating. creating better working environments Coast In fact, some of these past experiences are They worked well with the international students Guard-wide allowing the service to retain what drive the instructors to teach leadership and were very understanding of our cultural experienced personnel. techniques to junior personnel. differences,” Hanna said. This continual pass down of techniques and

Hanna said that he intends to pass on the • Instructor MSTC Jonathan Shipperley said experiences is important to the Coast Guard Issue 3 he draws his motivation to teach quality leadership techniques and lessons he learned at because the junior leaders of today will be the senior p Heads Up Display Classes use turn charts to leadership practices to other Coast Guard LAMS to his fellow service members back home. leaders of tomorrow and they will be called upon to

formulate ideas and share them with the class. Charts are members based on his brushes with poor “I absolutely recommend this class, especially to train and mentor new Coast Guard members for the • 2006 utilized in an effort to stimulate interaction and group learning. leaders. middle managers who have responsibility to their future roles and missions they will be called upon to “My personal motivation for teaching this supervisors as well as their subordinates. It’s a good perform.

27 BM3 Wyatt Werneth, a reservist, who drills at Station mentoring as a strategy for personal development discussing rescue equipment modifications might “Mentor...” Port Canaveral, Fla. that comes from “sharing known resources, spark a conversation between senior and junior “I have attached myself strongly to mentoring expertise, values, skills, perspectives, attitudes personnel. According to West, he has a list of “Studies show successful mentoring partnerships because I didn’t have the guidance and focus and proficiencies”. It further allows the learner to mentors ranging in age, gender and rank who lead to two-way knowledge sharing coupled with growing up,” he said. “I saw the implications of what build skills and knowledge while attaining provide him with information on a variety of personal and professional success for both the mentoring can do for you and try to make myself pre-determined, specific and measurable goals. issues and philosophies. However the relationship mentor and the mentee,” said Bridgette Brandhuber, available to anyone who needs it,” said Werneth, who In a broader sense, mentoring allows the Coast is structured, mentorship is a dynamic and Mentoring Program Coordinator for the United States serves as Chief, Brevard County Ocean Rescue in Guard to build a future force and a leadership flexible partnership that matures and evolves Coast Guard. “The his civilian life. A critical cadre. However, successful mentoring programs when nurtured. relationship can be ingredient for success is also allow for development of best practices “We highly encourage informal mentoring flexible, depending upon enjoying people, said through listening and encouragement. As newer relationships,” said Brandhuber. “However, the needs, goals and “If you do not have a Werneth, who also works employees are given a voice, unexpected results because of the nature of this service, you may find objectives of the mentee.” as a personal trainer. from unexpected sources may emerge. yourself in a remote area where it is impossible to Mentoring encourages mentor, you’re Josh Mitcheltree Collaborative work and goal setting are find an appropriate mentor match. In this case, fresh perspective and new encouraged and both mesh well with Coast Guard we want you to look to our web-based concurs. An Aviation ideas. The relationship leadership competencies of leading self and mentoring program,” she said. doing yourself a Survival Technician 2nd offers preservation of leading others. class, he knows that organizational culture as In the business world, much has been written disservice. “If you mentoring is a vital skill in traditions and practices about how mentoring programs should be the world of rescue are shared. It positively structured. However, many find a more informal Procedures for initiating a mentoring aren’t mentoring swimming. “I’m blessed impacts recruitment and relationship with elements of role modeling works relationship can be found by logging on because there are so many retention of a more diverse best during their Coast Guard careers. It may be to http://www.uscg.mil/leadership/ someone else, you people I look up to that workforce as members are as casual as seeking advice about specific tasks, mentoring.htm.For more have been there for me,” encouraged to reach their critical decision-making or obtaining information information on mentorship, log on to: said Mitcheltree, an Air potential. One of many are doing the Coast not readily available or understandable. In the http://www.3creekmentoring.com/ Medal recipient for his outcomes is the case of an Aviation Survival Technician, uscgmentoring/. work in the aftermath of development of leadership Guard a disservice.” Hurricane Katrina. One skills. person took responsibility “Mentorship comes from — Lt. Cdr. Adrian West natural born leaders,” said for ensuring Mitcheltree YNMC Ann Tubbs, quickly was physically and Giving ticking off the names of seven who provided her mentally ready for “A” CGC school, even cautioning him to wait the extra two Direction guidance and advice, as she rose up through the Chock, lies at anchor off months until a subsequent class started. That ranks. of Washington, D.C., while allowed Mitcheltree to develop stronger muscles and “The common thread was that they all saw the SA Charles Law, at the

improve his fin work ensuring he was set up for www.uscg.mil/magazine potential in me and provided the guidance I needed, helm of the cutter’s small or was seeking.” As a Machinery Technician in the success – and graduation the first time through school. Many of the lessons taught by his mentor are boat, undergoes training 1980s, when female counterparts were hard to find, and mentoring in small informal mentorship filled the gaps, said Tubbs, now ones Mitcheltree now uses when he works with new recruits. Watching him work with school children boat operations and serving as Special Assistant to the Master Chief Petty seamanship, given by Officer of the Coast Guard. Supporting her claim is a fascinated by the Coast Guard, one has the feeling Coast Guard Auxiliary study from the Harvard Business School, stating 44 he is the natural born leader referred to by Tubbs. Flotilla 81 member John percent of CEOs list mentoring as a prime strategy Listing traits such as honest feedback, investment for retention of female executives. of time and genuine concern as the virtues of his Krogmann, Aug. 28, 2004. Coast Guard Mentoring involves an array of communications mentor, he noted the two still keep in contact though Krogmann is a Coast skills, as well as commitment to sharing one’s sporadically. Guard-certified Auxiliary knowledge and experience. “He still keeps up with what I’m doing and Coxswain who volunteers “You’ve got to get out this information, this recently, we discussed elements of a rescue,” said aboard the Chock, some • knowledge, because you’ve got something to pass Mitcheltree, referring to his mentor. 50 hours per month, Issue 3 on,” said Louis “Studs” Terkel, historian, broadcaster Trust, genuine concern and honest helping support its and author of the book “Working.” “Make the most of communications appear to be essential ingredients missions and roles. • every molecule you’ve got as long as you’ve got a for successful mentoring partnerships. Yet despite Photo by Joseph Cirone, USCGAUX 2006 second to go,” he said. these testimonials, mentoring can be an elusive That passion and fervor is mirrored in the words of concept to define. The Coast Guard’s website defines

29 Story by PA1 Alan Haraf, 11th Dist. Chief’s Academy Leadership School Expand s Focus To Other Agencies

he Chief Petty Officer Academy in relationship with counterparts of other agencies,’ ” said to be pushed by other people’s encouragement and Future classes at the Academy throughout the year Petaluma, Calif., was designed to Niece. “We’re all trying to protect the American people.” guidance and to attain a sense of achievement. This is will include a more international flavor with students provide newly advanced Chief Petty Sergio Hernandez, Patrol Officer in Charge, was one important whether a student is leading or being led. from Columbia, Belize, Republic of Georgia, the Officers with knowledge, skills, attitudes of two agents from Custom and Border Protection to “The Chief Petty Officer Academy focuses on the Bahamas and Haiti. and abilities while focusing on attend Class 140. He heard about the Coast Guard CPO person,” said Niece. “We don’t focus on tactical. We “Even if someone has had a lot of professional professionalism, leadership, communi- Academy from past CPB attendees and wanted to learn focus on the whole person. If we help each person, the education and leadership training, they probably Tcations, lifelong learning, and health. how to strengthen his leadership skills and share it with organization will benefit as well.” haven’t had the personal introspection and The transition from E-6 to E-7, after all, has been the 64 people he supervises in Laredo, Texas. A veteran “A lot of places I’ve worked at, people have the wrong self-assessment,” said AMTCM Mark Thomas, who identified by the Commandant and the Master Chief of CBP for 20 years, Hernandez served in the Army for impression of what a leader is,” said Scott Sweetalla, will be relieving Niece as CPO Academy School Chief. Petty Officer of the Coast Guard as the most critical four years until 1979, and worked with the Coast Guard a member of class 140 and the first person to attend “The focus here is on the person. That’s why the transition in a Coast Guard enlisted career. as a member of CBP during the Mariel Boat Lift. the CPO Academy from the Transportation Security Chiefs’ Academy is so unique.” If you glanced around the room of Class 140 this past “For some of the people hired by CBP, this is their first Administration. “They immediately start giving orders, “Training is about training a specific skill set,” March, however, there was a smattering of uniforms job,” Hernandez said. “They may not have had demanding orders. This course teaches so much more added Thomas. “Education is about giving people other than Coast Guard tropical blue. Customs and leadership training in the past, and it’s possible for than that.” a wide variety of tools, becoming more self aware, Border Protection, Transportation Security them to become a supervisor in four or five years. My “One of our values is ‘Courteous Security,’” he reflecting, and then taking those models and applying Administration, the Royal Saint Lucia Police and the goal is to offer this training to other Border Patrol agents added. “Some of the things taught here are valuable to and associating them to the different fields that people U.S. Air Force were all present. that want to be supervisors. We don’t really receive this that. You can be compassionate and still be firm.” come from.” Since the Academy was founded in 1982, other type of training at our Academy.” Master Sgt. Nathanial Hawkins of the U.S. Air Force “Most importantly is the relationship you have with branches of the U.S. military and several foreign During the four and a half weeks in Petaluma, decided to attend the CPO Academy after one of his yourself,” Thomas said. “Take a look at yourself - what

students have attended the Coast Guard’s Chief Petty students are involved in classroom learning and supervisors suggested that it was the best course he motivates you, what drives you and how you like to www.uscg.mil/magazine Officer Academy. But within the past couple of years, improving skills in areas such as active listening, had ever taken. learn. But then learn the other ways of motivation other agencies, including those that are a part of DHS, presentation skills, facilitative leadership, “Ethical “For someone who has been in the service as long as and how other people like to learn, so that you can be have also been invited to participate. Fitness” and writing workshops. I have, we’ve been to three different levels of more effective.” “I remember Admiral Allen stating that the time to A lot of the leadership skills, however, are learned out- leadership training by now,” stated Hawkins. “They’re The Chief Petty Officer Academy was started in 1982 exchange business cards is not during a disaster,” said side the classroom, within each small group into which all structured the same way. You know what to expect, in Yorktown, Va., and moved to its present location OSCM John Niece, school chief at the Academy. the class is divided. During social events, physical fit- what is going to be taught.” just three years later. By 1998, after the course went Admiral Allen’s remarks in 2005 triggered an ness training and bike rides, students “This is more hands on,” Hawkins added. “You’re through a “Needs Assessment,” the leadership school

innovative idea in which Niece began to unfold a plan to develop an integral sense of teamwork and leadership. applying a lot of what you’re learning. You get bits and for enlisted personnel at the E-7 level and above was Coast Guard expand the Academy beyond the Coast Guard. He and In no other outside activity at the Academy is this pieces, but you see how they fit into the big puzzle. changed from eight weeks in length to six weeks and other leaders of the CPO Academy extended an more prevalent than in what is known as “low ropes” You go outside the box.” then to its current four weeks. The class size invitation to Customs and Border Protection in San and “high ropes.” Sergeant Nadine George of the Royal Saint Lucia expanded from 32 to 64. Diego and invited them to be part of the leadership During these rope exercises, students walk and climb Marine Police in charge of Operations, also heard Class 140 concluded with the traditional • school. In May of 2006, two members of the CBP through some very challenging obstacle courses, some about the CPO Academy from colleagues and decided graduation dinner and presentation of certificates. Issue 3 became the first non-Coast Guard personnel within of which are configured among trees some 30-40 feet to attend. This year, Rear Adm. Jody Breckenridge, DHS to graduate from the Academy. above the ground. Wearing harnesses and provided “I obtained enough tools, hoping to funnel it into the Commanding Officer of the Eleventh District, and

Today, the Coast Guard’s CPO Academy is looked at with safety equipment, teams work together to provide area of Increasing Human Effectiveness,” said George. MPOCG Charles Bowen presided. Together they • 2006 as a highly-respected leadership development program. leadership, support and encouragement to each other so “I found out a lot about myself. This will help me in offered words of gratitude and encouragement to the The vision and success of the CPO Academy is now that, as individuals, everyone is given a sense of the long run.” Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard and the being shared with, and offered to, other agencies, accomplishment, success and achievement no matter Prior to graduation, all non-Coast Guard members honorary chiefs whose leadership is so vital to the including those within DHS. how far into the obstacle course a person progresses. of the class were made honorary chiefs and were people they work with and ultimately to the “If you read Colin Powell’s biography, you’ll find that During this part of the Academy, a person comes to pinned with chief’s anchors during a ceremony in the continued successful collaboration between partnering he says ‘success in the first Gulf War was based on our understand how to work outside of their comfort zones, base’s theatre. agencies. 31 t four in the morning, Terminal its first target, a tanker coming from Ecuador. Ocean Just aft of the cruise ship, a Los Angeles Port Police Island seems more like a sleepy Rescue heads west to first rendezvous with CGC boat waits to recover two police officers currently Operation backstreet of San Pedro, Ca., Zephyr and transfer its boarding team to them, and providing security on the cruise ship’s bridge. The rather than part of the bustling then they both head north to intercept their targets. ability of the Los Angeles Port Police to resource this 7400 acre Los Angeles – Long Beach Port Within an hour and a half, the radios hum with particular mission has allowed Coast Guard assets to AComplex. But those who work amongst the activity as three boardings are commenced, while be used in other capacities and embraces the benefits Contained mountains of containers, scores of portainer maintaining coordination between the underway of strong ties among port partners. cranes and armadas of trucks, know the port assets, Tactical Action Officer and Sector Command Just after noon, with operational goals complete, is simply taking a deep breath before Center. Ocean Rescue pulls into the Coast Guard boat basin continuing the frenzy of daily operations. On Ocean Rescue, the 10-person joint boarding to off-load equipment and personnel before heading This morning, five of those agencies and a team is readying equipment and reviewing back to its moorings. An hour later, Narwhal finishes variety of resources gather at the Sector Los assignments as they come alongside their target, a up and disembarks its boarding team before heading Angeles – Long Beach boat basin to 900-foot container ship from China. Included on this north to conduct fishery boardings in the Channel participate in Operation Contained Fury. A team is Simba, the LASD explosives canine. Her Islands. With three more boardings and a positive port security surge operation, Operation handler climbs aboard, drops a climbing rope that control measure left, Zephyr disembarks the first Contained Fury was conceived to develop attaches to her harness and lifts Simba to the main boarding team, embarks a second and heads back out Story by Lt. Shawn Lansing, operational strategy, identify appropriate deck. Once on board, Simba and her handler join two to finish off the day’s tasking. Sector Los Angelas - Long Beach resourcing levels and strengthen inter- CBP Inspectors, a paramedic, two bomb squad The amount of coordination and assistance the port FURY agency coordination in the event of an technicians and the CG team ultimately responsible partners provide each other at the port complex is in increase to MARSEC Level II. With a goal of for assisting the Captain of the Port in determining many ways larger than the port itself, and has been finding that critical balance of security whether the ship instrumental to the without disrupting the $1 billion-a-day should be allowed to many successes here. economic flow of the port, Operation enter. In this instance, a Contained Fury utilizes a mixed approach of When these team effort tested and at-sea and at-anchorage boardings to keep boardings go refined operational the flow of traffic moving. With an average of smoothly, the teams strategy, keeping 16 vessel arrivals per day via both north and are recovered just waterways safe south traffic lanes, this task can often present prior to pilots and facilitating significant resource and planning challenges. embarking the vessel the protection of our Today’s tasking involves boarding eleven to bring them through vast and commercial vessels (three of which will receive the breakwall and on interconnected global positive control measures upon entry) and to their berth. The supply chain. escorting two tankers and one cruise ship. To teams will then head accomplish this, several Coast Guard assets back out the traffic Port Information are joined by representatives from Customs lanes for their next and Border Protection (CBP), Los Angeles target. However, if The Los Angeles County Sheriffs (LASD), Los Angeles Port unable to get to – Long Beach Port Police and the Long Beach Police vessels in time, or Complex was built on Department.

if boardings are not mudflats at the turn www.uscg.mil/magazine After participating in a risk assessment completed by the pilot of the century. and operational briefing, 26 law enforcement buoy, the vessels can Having grown officers are split into three boarding teams. be directed to outside exponentially ever Each team is comprised of a minimum of two anchorages by the since, the complex members from each agency in order to Vessel Traffic Center lays 20 miles south of develop team unity and ensure actual until the boarding can downtown Los responses aren’t the first time individuals be completed. Angeles and now work together. With the teams selected and After Ocean Rescue

contains 57 container, Coast Guard ready to go, they board the CGC Narwhal and completes two more of bulk and petro- the LASD boat, Ocean Rescue, and head out these evolutions, they chemical terminals. of LA Channel under the cover of darkness. head back through Additionally, there After passing through Angel’s Gate, Angel’s Gate and over are several marinas,

Narwhal heads an hour south to pick up • the flats toward Long two cruise ship Issue 3 Beach to board a boat terminals, two Photo courtesy of Port of Los Angeles of Port Photo courtesy that just anchored. passenger ferry

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terminals with service 2006 t Los Angeles Not Just Any Port pass a Coast Guard Photo by Lt. Shawn Lansing, Sector Los Angelas - Long Beach to Catalina Island and - Long Beach Port Complex is the busiest port Station Los Angeles p Boarding team members of Sector Los outlying harbors and complex in the United States by container – Long Beach crew, Job Well Done eight law enforcement Angeles - Long Beach and the CGC Zephyr disembark a volume (fifth in the world), has over 6,000 which is escorting a agencies charged with container ship onto the Zephyr’s small boat after a successful vessel arrivals a year and handles 14.1 million cruise ship out of the maintaining order port security boarding. containers. harbor. amid the chaos. 33 Coast Guard Chefs show their stuff at Prestigious Army Cooking Competition orches, electric grinders and The following day found Fuchs rushing to serve his chainsaws are tools usually found in entrée on time, a risotto topped with red peppers, garages, garden sheds and hardware shrimp and lobster. stores, but not kitchens. “It’s a rush! It’s like the top gun for cooks with When these unusual cooking everybody trying to be the best,” said Fuchs, who utensils are combined with a splash competed in several similar cooking contests before Tof pride, a sprinkling of cross-service rivalry, a joining the Coast Guard less than six months ago. prestigious Army culinary competition, a handful of “The Mackinaw is a great boat, with a great talented Coast Guard chefs and brought to a boil, it command and a great crew. They’ve all been creates a recipe for success. supportive of my coming to the competition,” said The nine men and women of the Coast Guard’s Fuchs. culinary team, representing the nation’s smallest military service, competing in the 32nd Annual U.S. Army Culinary Competition at Fort Lee, Va., did more Gathering the Ingredients than hold their own against the best culinary teams the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps have to offer. Coast Guard Team Captain FSC Justin Reed was in They won and won big. charge of selecting team members for this year’s competition and chose the best Food Service Specialist’s (FS) he could find, drawing from the Iron Chefs cutter fleet, several stations, the Academy and special command aides for the Fifth District and Atlantic Area Knives flashed, pots bubbled and flames roared into commands. the air as SN Edward Fuchs, CGC Mackinaw, and FSC “We all flowed and knew how to cover each other. It Justin Reed, Maintenance and Logistics Command, was just a great team,” said Reed. Atlantic, took part in the contest’s first events, the It wasn’t all fun and games during the competition Junior and Senior Military Chef of the Year Competi- though. Team Coast Guard showed its mettle, cooking tions. Reed and Fuchs got the nine member Coast more than 24 hours straight at one point, putting final Guard culinary team off to a strong start, each earn- preparations on a table display. ing a silver medal for their efforts. “You get a bunch of Coasties together and they work www.uscg.mil/magazine In the chef of the year contest, competitors are together all the time, but this was really something given four hours to prepare a four-course meal from else. Everybody stayed motivated for the full 24 hours a pre-selected list of ingredients. The main difference that we worked,” said Reed. between the divisions is that junior chefs are allowed to see the list of ingredients two days before the competition, allowing them time to practice preparing Center of Attention their meal. Senior chefs on the other hand are

afforded no such luxury and must prepare their menu Towering 4-feet above the various trays of food on Coast Guard from scratch at the start of the competition. display at the Coast Guard team’s table was an Reed, a returning competitor in the Senior Chef Alaskan themed chocolate centerpiece. division, put his cooking skills and experience to use CWO2 Mike Malheiro, formerly of Integrated preparing a meal consisting of a small salad, oyster Support Command Ketchikan, Alaska, and Reed • bisque soup, a pistachio crusted rack of lamb with a decided the theme of the centerpiece depicting native Issue 3 mustard mint sauce as an appetizer, and a wild images of an owl, killer whale and the sun. mushroom risotto cake topped with a Sea Bass fillet “The team was awesome, (they’re) some of the best • served as the entrée followed by a chocolate soufflé for FS’ I’ve had the pleasure to work with. We all helped 2006 dessert. each other on all of our projects throughout the “These judges are old school judges who like to see competition,” said Malheiro, referring to the assistance classical cuisine,” said Reed who used this knowledge they gave him in assembling the centerpiece. while planning and preparing his meal. “I think it’s a great competition,” said Malheiro. “The food judges really liked the food that I made “Our FS’ don’t get many chances to advance their today,” Reed said happily. skills outside their day-to-day routine. This event 35 allows them the opportunity to network and showcase Getting Noticed their skills while receiving some extraordinary training,” said Malheiro. The team’s efforts garnered a lot of attention, not only from the crowd but from Coast Guard Headquarters as Coast Guard Ice Breakers well. In attendance was FSCM Philip Garrett, Coast Guard Outside the kitchen FS1 Larry Dagen and FS1 James Food Service Specialist Rating Force Master Chief, and Swenson used chisels, chainsaws and grinders to put the person in charge of managing the Coast Guard’s the competition on ice by hacking, hewing and sculpting food preparation work force. Garrett was very pleased 300-pound blocks of ice into and proud of the attention the team garnered delicate, frozen center during the competition. pieces. “This is an awareness tool for the Coast The competition was the Guard and the public as well, that our first for Dagen, a 10-year folks have the ability to compete, and Coast Guard veteran compete well, with the other services,” said currently assigned as the special Garrett. command aide for the Atlantic Area Garrett was also impressed by the p The Coast Guard culinary team members, (from left) FS1 James Swenson, CWO2 Mike Malheiro, Commander in Portsmouth, Va. knowledge team members gained by Dream Team FS2 Kevin Johnson, FSC Justin Reed, FS1 Larry Dagen, FS3 Candace Gracik, SNFS Edward Fuchs and FS1 Kipp Rice “It was an awesome experience. competing in the various events. I wouldn’t trade this experience for “Skill enhancement is a huge part pose for a team photo at the 32nd Annual U.S. Army Culinary Arts Competition. Not pictured is FS2 Chara Tolbert. The anything. I’m just fortunate I had of this. I can’t think of a better way Coast Guard team won 18 medals at the competition comprising of 3 gold, six silvers and nine bronzes. the opportunity to come and to spend money than to send someone to represent the Coast Guard,” said a joint services event to see how things are Dagen. done and to take that institutional knowl- Swenson, food service quality edge and share that with their (service) manager at the Coast Guard communities as instructors and Academy in New London, Conn., has mentors,” said Garrett. been carving ice sculptures for the past three In addition to learning new skills, years. During the competition Swenson, who Garrett hopes the competition will not said he enjoys sculpting ice because it brings only help retain personnel, but grow the Recipe for an out his creative side, won three medals. job field by allowing the public to see Putting his imagination to use, Swenson Coast Guard chef’s utilizing their skills. earned a bronze medal in the single “The paramount of the program is for Ice Carving: block competition for sculpting an each person in the FS rating to receive eagle, another bronze for his carving of absolutely the best training that we can give By FS1 James Swenson, CG Academy a dragon and a gold medal in the five to prepare them for mission effectiveness and block team competition, along with w 300 Pound Ice Blocks execution,” said Garrett. Dagen and Reed, for a sculpture of a

w Chain Saw, Disc Grinder and chisels woolly mammoth being attacked by www.uscg.mil/magazine a saber-toothed tiger. Just Desserts w A Hazardous environment including “A gold medal in an American electricity, chainsaws, power tools, hundreds Culinary Federation sanctioned At the end of the competition the of pound of ice stacked and cut, crashing to event is no joke. Very few are Coast Guard team proved that the ground creating puddles of water and a handed out. Only one other team even though they represent the slippery deck, shards of sharp ice shooting received a gold medal this year and smallest branch of the everywhere, oil dripping from power tools, that team included two Army Master military, they possess the safety goggles foggy and wet creating no Sergeants who both had many years of Coast Guard determination and skills visibility and a rambunctious crowd of all ages ice carving experience,” said looking to get close to the action. Swenson. necessary to compete with Swenson also said the larger teams from the other w Hours of backbreaking tedious work competition between the ice services, earning 18 • carvers was tense with the medals overall, including w Winning Gold against the Army, Air Force Issue 3 other teams resorting to three gold, six silvers and and Marines: creative methods to jinx him nine bronzes. •

“We’ve come a long way,” Awesome! 2006 during the competition. Photo by CWO2 Mike Malheiro, Chesapeake, Va. “The Army kept placing ice on said Reed, who hopes this my station that they carved year’s contest will be a t Ice Ops FS1 Larry Dagen, Special Command Aide for into ‘kryptonite’ as I competed p Chocolate Totem The Coast Guard Culinary springboard allowing more Commander Atlantic Area located in Portsmouth, Va., carves against their teammates,” team’s chocolate centerpiece at the 32nd Annual U.S. Coast Guard chefs to a sailboat from a block of ice at the 32nd Annual U.S. Army Army Culinary Arts Competition. compete in future events. said Swenson. Culinary Arts Competition at Fort Lee, Va. 37 “I said, ‘Auxiliary?’ That’d be although he loves to talk to people something I’d like to do.” about his experiences. Gunny found that he excelled His expression is sincere when A Lifetime at auxiliary work just as much as he admits, “I’m one of those people being a Marine and teaching high who looks at the world through school. He became the District rosy glasses – [one who believes] Staff Officer for auxiliary marine that the glass is Half-full, not half- of Service safety and marine environmen- empty. The world is full of good tal missions and now serves as people, and until they prove me Story by PA1 Anastasia Devlin, the Coast Guard’s representative otherwise, that’s what I believe.” in the Los Angeles harbor safety The expression changes to mis- 11th Dist. committee and subcommittee on chief, and his eyes narrow with a recreational boating. smile. Coast Guard Capt. Paul Wieden- “But if you step on my spit hoeft, Captain of the Port for Los shines, I’ll punch your running Angeles/Long Beach, said Sutis is lights out.” His good-natured the model Auxiliarist. laughter is contagious, and his “His appearance and bearing eyes sparkle again. are amazing—it’s the old Marine in Gunny Sutis is a rare find him. What comes across is ‘have indeed, and definitely one some pride in your appearance.’ Wiedenhoeft hopes to keep on It’s helped bring up the level of his staff. “He’s got so much vital- p Devil Dog Demaso Sutis’s care that people might not have ity—it’s belying his years. I don’t boot camp picture taken at the had in their appearance.” see an end. I see folks on active Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Wiedenhoeft said that Gunny’s duty that can’t keep up with him,” Diego in 1944. enthusiasm for the Coast Guard said Wiedenhoeft -- and Sutis and the Auxiliary are both infec- knows it. ment, but was now ready to try his tious and contagious. “He’s really “I’m proud to wear this uni- hand in the civilian world. a pleasure to work with, and he’s form,” Sutis says with a smile. He Leadership in the Marines a great mentor to young folks. The says the uniform is the outward Proud Sailor Demaso Sutis stands in Corps, paired with his skills in guys like to hear his stories from sign of the professionalism of the front of an American flag in Los Angles. welding, construction and machin- his Marine and teaching days.” He Coast Guard, and he gets “just ery, transferred well to a career says Gunny’s skills as a Marine as great a thrill” as when he wore and a teacher are helpful, but it’s his Marine Corps blues. “I see no Photo by PA2 Prentice Danner, 11th Dist teaching high school industrial arts. his attitude and his desire to get difference; I wear this uniform just e’s a social butterfly with later, found himself on the beach at guy-- I had no wife, had no baby-- “I started at a high school that out and talk to people that really as proudly as my Marine Corps a buzz cut. His bright Iwo Jima dodging gunfire. because Congress cut off all fund- was mostly made up of Mexican- makes a difference. uniform.” eyes, framed by thick Not even 20 years old, Sutis ing for spousal benefits.” H American kids. It was a tough At 80, Sutis still comes to work “I feel good in uniform, and I’m glasses, reflect a passion for telling returned to the states as a war vet- Despite the low pay and lack of school, and it was like teaching four to five days a week for the around people that I understand great stories, but the sharp creases eran, and came back to the south support for his family, he stayed in Marines,” said Sutis. “I drilled Coast Guard, and his pictures and who understand me. These in his uniform show he’s just as side of Chicago to celebrate. There, the Marine Corps. them around the parking lot. If from his time on Iwo Jima have are people that I trust. It’s a fra-

professional as he is intriguing. he met his future wife, or, as he “I thought that anyone in uni- they really screwed up, I took given him a new popularity. Since ternity, and it’s something that’s www.uscg.mil/magazine Eighty-year-old Auxiliarist calls her after almost 60 years of form was doing something worth- them out the back door to the the photos were featured in the important to me.” Damaso H. Sutis, known for the marriage, “my bride.” while,” said Sutis. “It was the tail P.E. field and made them do end credits of the recently released Sutis speaks earnestly when better part of his life as “Sarge” or “She was one of the younger end of the depression; we needed calisthenics.” movie, “Flags of Our Fathers,” he talks about his love of both “Gunny,” has been a part of Coast kids,” he said, explaining that he to do something. It was the cama- His students improved, and four Gunny’s had multiple requests for the Coast Guard and the Marine Guard Sector Los Angeles/Long hadn’t really gotten to know her raderie, yes, but we were making a years later, he was division chair- signed copies, an honor the man Corps. “I didn’t realize how im- Beach, Calif., for more than a before he left. “When I got back, difference.” man of the industrial technology dismisses with a modest wave of portant the Coast Guard’s job was decade. there she was. I saw this beauty During their first 21 years of department, including industrial his hand. until I got in. They’re two small Sutis, who came to the Coast coming down the street from a dis- marriage, seven of those years were arts, home economics and busi- He’s indifferent to the fame, services, doing one hell of a job.” Guard from the Marine Corps grew tance, and I said to the guys, ‘My spent apart. Some days, Dee didn’t Coast Guard ness. up in 1930s Chicago. God, who is that?’ She didn’t want know where he was, or if he was After twenty years as the He was raised in a happy family much to do with me. She said I was dead or alive. school’s technology division chair- on the violent south side of Chicago cocky and overbearing.” “I had to work because the pay man, he moved to a position within by his Filipino father, a multi- “I couldn’t stand him,” Dee was so low. [Gunny] would go to the school as a career advisor. •

lingual railroad porter with two Sutis, confirmed. “I thought he was work one morning, and I wouldn’t Issue 3 He attended an Auxiliary-spon- degrees, and his beautiful Creole the most arrogant, self-centered… I see him for three weeks. That time sored event to hear more about the mother from New Orleans. was very rude to him,” she admits was during the Bay of Pigs inva- Coast Guard Academy as a pos-

“Most of us males had to prove as the smile in her voice turns into sion. Finally, someone from the •

sible option for his students, and 2007 ourselves,” he said as he recounted laughter. base called and said he’d been while he was there, learned about his times of running with his own But he eventually won her over, deployed.” the Auxiliary itself. “gang” during the heyday of Al Ca- and they married. Their happiness After facing two more wars with pone and in the middle of the Great increased when they were blessed the Marine Corps, Sutis decided 24 Depression. with a beautiful daughter, but life years was enough. He had gone u A Day at the Beach He joined the Marine Corps in was not easy. “To stay in, I had to through life in the military never Demaso Sutis storms the beach on 1944 to do just that, and one year sign a waiver saying I was a single believing he’d make it to retire- Iwo Jima in February 1945. 39 Past Tragedy Leads to Safer Future Story by PA3 Jeffrey Pollinger, 13th Dist.

n the night of Feb. 12, 1997, the have forgotten about the men who made the ultimate more opportunities for would-be surfmen to train operating in surf and heavy weather conditions are crew aboard a 31-foot sailboat, the sacrifice while trying to save the lives of two total under their guidance. met and that program leadership and management Gale Runner, became trapped during strangers. Adm. James Loy, former commandant of the Coast are continually linked to field realities, according a violent storm in the waters off the This anniversary, like in years past, a wreath and Guard, spoke about the issue during a State of the to Lt. Matthew Buckingham, who is assigned to the rugged and often dangerous Pacific flowers were placed at the station beside a brass and Coast Guard Address. “The heart of the problem is Coast Guard’s Office of Boat Forces. Northwest coast near La Push, Wash. granite memorial of a 44-foot MLB in the surf. that it takes a lot of on-the-job training for a cox- The Prospective Surfman Program was established OThe master attempted to escape the fury of the storm Station personnel, local citizens, members of the swain to become a qualified surfman. That training in 2003 according to Buckingham. The program is by sailing to a nearby marina, but that attempt was nearby Quileute Tribe and family gathered around the can happen only when an operational unit has a intended to attract, identify and select prospects, thwarted when 25-foot waves and 30-knot winds memorial to remember the men. properly rested trainer available to work with a prop- and to properly guide, train and develop more dismasted the boat and blew out hatches and Today, some family members of the lost crewmen erly rested trainee and the proper surf surfmen trainees. portholes. still live near the semi-isolated station. conditions prevail,” he said. A new training program utilizing an MLB boat After the vessel became flooded and the engine The surviving crewman, Ben Wingo, is still in the Since 1998, Team Coordination Training for simulator is being developed at the National Motor failed, it began to drift dangerously toward nearby Coast Guard and serving as an aviation machinery operational personnel is a requirement. The training Lifeboat School in Ilwaco, Wash. The simulator was rock formations. The crew called for help. technician at Air Station North Bend, Ore. Crews at teaches members how to analyze potentially purchased in 2006 and upgraded in January. First to answer the call was a search and rescue the Quillayute Station still respond to distress calls, hazardous situations while working together as a Although the simulator is a safe alternative to crew from Coast Guard Station Quillayute River, sometimes in heavy surf, wind, darkness and driving team. A major part of the curriculum focuses on training in the surf, Coast Guard crews always will Wash. Within minutes, the four-man crew did what rain, just like the crew of MLB 44363 did that tragic knowing one’s limitations before taking action. have to train and perform rescues in dangerous

Coast Guard small boat crews are known for doing - night. “Anytime we go into the surf we have a seas. www.uscg.mil/magazine heading into treacherous waters while other mariners The deaths of Bosely, Miniken and Schlimme were briefing and agree on our limitations,” said CWO4 The Coast Guard has taken many steps to make retreat. not in vain. The accident prompted the Coast Guard Rick Spencer, commanding officer of the National rescue operations in the small boat community as As their 44-foot, steel-hulled motor lifeboat crossed to take a closer look at small boat operations and Motor Lifeboat School. “Our number one priority is safe as possible - but it will never be possible to the Quillayute River bar and plunged into the storm, make changes in an effort to prevent further loss of safety.” completely eliminate the risks associated with a towering wave rolled the boat. The boat righted itself life and improve readiness. The Coast Guard also has phased out the 1960’s performing rescues and training in rough seas. and the crew pressed on. The tumultuous sea struck In the past, surfmen, as with all other boatswain’s era 44-foot motor lifeboats with faster and more Retired Chief Warrant Officer and former surfman back and rolled the boat two more times, ripping the mates, were required to complete a tour of duty on a maneuverable 47-foot motor lifeboats. These Scott Clendenin sums up what accidents like the superstructure off and leaving three of the four-man Coast Guard cutter before being eligible for aluminum boats have a top speed of 25 knots - more one at Station Quillayute River demonstrate, “What crew in the churning waters. advancement to chief petty officer. than twice the speed of the old 44-footers. That extra we do every day is very, very dangerous.”* Coast Guard Miraculously, the fourth crewman remained As a result, surfmen transferred to cutters could not speed gives the operator more of a chance to evade tethered to the boat and made it to land after ocean practice their trade and eventually lost their large waves rather than confront them head-on. * Quote taken from “The Rescue of the Gale Runner”, by Dr. Dennis Noble currents pushed the crippled boat onto nearby James certifications. Their replacements at the stations Other benefits that the 44-footer lacked include an

Island. required years of training to qualify - creating a enclosed bridge and state of the art electronics. • A Bleak Morning The 44-foot. motor lifeboat Issue 3 Lost in the accident were BM2 David Bosely, MK3 shortage of surfmen, as was the case at Station “The forty seven (footer) is more technologically (44363) lies grounded on a rocky shore at James Island, Matthew Schlimme and SN Clinton Miniken. Quillayute River in 1997. advanced and more forgiving than the 44-footer Wash., Feb. 14, 1997. The top portion of the boat had

The two people aboard the battered sailboat were Surfmen are no longer required to serve aboard a was,” said Spencer. been torn away. Rips, scratches and several deep dents • 2007 later rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter crew cutter in order to be eligible for advancement to chief. The Surf Operations and Surfman Training marred its white hull. In the early morning hours of Feb. moments before the boat struck the rocks. As a result of this policy change, the highly-trained Advisory Group, comprised of senior surfmen and 12, in heavy sea conditions off the Quillayute River/Pacific Feb. 12, 2007, marked the 10th anniversary of the boat operators normally stay at units that require personnel at Coast Guard Headquarters in Ocean bar, three Coast Guardsmen from Station tragic accident. Although 10 years have passed, few their skills. In addition, a higher concentration of Washington, D.C., was chartered in 2000. The group Quillayute died when their motor lifeboat capsized as they people in the Coast Guard’s small boat community surfmen at small boat stations means that there are was formed to ensure that the needs of units responded to a distress call from a dismasted sailboat. 23 Photo by PA3 Della Price Story and photo by A Life Saving PA3 Eric Chandler, 17th Dist. Tradition USCG Photo

he duty watchstander’s professional greeting crewman is qualified and ready to do the job. The angry ocean with the lives of his or her crew and those upon entering the front door of Coast Guard process is expected to take about six months and being rescued hanging in the balance. T Station Juneau, Alaska, seems to complement crewmembers are left excited and eager to use their new Lowry added that completing the school is not the the polished and gleaming floor while the atmosphere of skills.” In Juneau a qualified crewmember can expect final step in qualification. The NMLBS teaches team a recently constructed building. to spend between 175 and 200 hours underway in one coordination, situational safety evaluation and skills Juneau’s winter prevents a majority of outdoor summer. necessary for inclement weather boat handling. activity on the water and reduces the number of search The crewman who has completed training will begin Determining if a member is qualified to operate a 47- and rescue cases received. Coast Guard personnel to feel the effects of being the master of their element. foot motor life boat in the surf is the responsibility of standing duty have to find ways to pass the winter In precarious and strenuous situations, an individual’s local unit commands, which also issue the certifying months. training will kick in and they will know what to do. The letter of qualification. “Well, we don’t hibernate when the snow arrives. We resulting self confidence begins to become apparent. Search and rescue is one of the Coast Guard’s continue to train underway and have to meet our The indoctrination process of a crewmember is almost oldest missions. The United States Life Saving Service semi-annual qualification currency requirements,” said identical nationwide and has changed very little over the merged with The Revenue Cutter Service to become BMCS Jeffery Kihlmire, officer in charge at Station years. After experiencing real rescues, many the Coast Guard in 1915, under an act signed by Juneau. Kihlmire is a qualified surfman and has served crewmembers never want to leave the up-close and President Woodrow Wilson which combined small boat at heavy weather and surf stations for much of his 21- personal life saving methods of small boats. Many will stations (formerly life saving stations) with the cutter year career. proceed towards careers as boatswain mates, and some fleet as one federal agency. Prior to the The contrasting seasonal workload at most stations few will eventually achieve surfman status. twentieth century, the majority of cases were large, p Eyes on the Boat BM2 Erich White (left) and can be difficult to impress upon newly arriving Surfman is the highest qualification achievable as a schooner-type freight vessels. Today, station search BM1 Robert McCormick observe a vessel simulating personnel. The serenity of Southeast Alaskan waterways small boat coxswain and can require four or more years and rescue cases are predominantly fishing vessels, distress during a training exercise in the Gastineau will become a convergence of seaplanes taking off in of training, determination and uncommon vessel charter vessels and small recreational boats. Channel off of Juneau, Alaska. McCormick analyzes the close proximity to recreational, fishing and cruise handling skill. Facing down the storm and going where Over the years, the evolution in heavy weather situation, coming up with a plan and considering all www.uscg.mil/magazine vessels. Similar changes in case numbers happen no one else wants to be in order to help another seems response craft progressed to culminate in the possible dangers to the vessel and the crew. nationwide, as fishing seasons and weather conditions to be a desirable lifestyle for some. production of the 47-foot motor lifeboat used at most change cyclically. BMCS Scott Lowry, executive officer of the National heavy weather and surf stations today. The search and rescue alarm, just as they do at many Kihlmire explained that arriving personnel spend the Motor Lifeboat School (NMLBS), described the appeal aluminum-hulled surf boat has sealed compartments stations today. first two weeks as break-in watchstanders and must of becoming a surfman. “Many of us are originally from with watertight doors, giving the vessel the ability to Although safety and functional improvements have pass an oral board before receiving true watch the Pacific Northwest. I grew up fishing on the jetties, stay afloat even with one or more flooded areas. taken huge strides since the early days of the qualification. They are then able to stand radio watch watching the boats come in and out. My father was a Crewmembers wear dry suits, signal kits, life vests lifesaving stations, the hardcore nature of the crews without supervision. Coast Guard surfman, and my son, BM3 Augusta Metz, and surf belts. has in no way been diminished. Tradition and pride Coast Guard Next they will start the crewman break-in period of is studying to become a surfman. Most of us share a Early heavy weather boats were built with air still can be seen in every aspect of training, execution four months guided by the Boat Crew Member Personal common desire to be the best in our field and to help pockets and buoyant cork in the bow and stern to give of mission and ceremony. Qualification Standard, a Coast Guard standardization people.” them a limited self-righting and bailing ability. Even today, the look that a Coast Guardsmen

manual. When they have completed all the tasks for “The success rate here is high, although a few people Hardened crews combined sails, oars and will power carries when gazing upon the ocean reveals both • Issue 3 both the motor life boat and 25-foot response boat they find that it is not what they had expected and change to transit dangerous seas and help the victims of defiance and responsibility. It is an indescribable will sit an oral board testing their knowledge of the their minds. It takes a person willing to dedicate their storms, errors of navigation and bad luck. expression, depicting an equally elusive characteristic. vessels and skills as crewman. After passing the board CG career to living in small towns throughout the Old photographs depict the rugged lifesavers It’s these traits that make a lifesaver take action • they move on to the underway check ride, which is a Pacific Northwest and dealing with some of the most wearing rough military uniforms and expressions of when others hesitate. These traits reflect the 2007 practical hands-on test of what they have learned. dreary and frequently severe weather mother-nature unshakable conviction. These were the men who came courtship of the sailor and the sea. They are a BM1 Ricky Johanson, Station Juneau’s operations can whip up,” said Lowry. He describes a surfman as up with terms like “We have to go out, but we don’t timeless and indefinable truth harbored in an officer, explained the conclusion of the process saying, the best of the best — a seasoned person who must all have to come back.” Reminiscent of fire fighters, expression of calm confidence and personifying the “when those tasks are completed successfully, the make the correct decision, often facing the fury of an duty crews sprang into action with the sounding of the statement “We are always ready.” 43 Coorssen, and they have been Logbook t Victory Lane BMC Jonathan Brown working together ever since. with his No. 6 Coast Guard 1978 Chevy “Gus is a three-time champ at the track, and it didn’t take much Alameda spouse receives Caprice stock car. The officer-in- for him to talk me into getting the charge of Station Cortez in Cortez, car,” said Brown. Volunteer Service Award Fla., has won two races since In 2004, Brown bought his he began racing in 2004. car from Gus. He only had to straighten the fenders, replace some safety equipment, tune up the engine and give it a new paint job. Since then, he and Gus have replaced the frame and body, replaced four axles, two rear ends and rebuilt two engines. “I’m not sure of the exact dollar amount that it has cost. If I kept close track of it, it wouldn’t be as much fun and my wife would kill me,” Brown said with a grin. Brown races nearly every Saturday night from mid-February to the end of November. He won his first race at Desoto in 2005 and another in 2006. “I don’t know exactly how fast I’m going, but I’ve only been fast enough twice,” jokes Brown. “There are no speedometers and everything is judged by lap times. Photo by Eric Draper, White House The track is three-eighths of a mile on the inside groove and our class p East Room Recognition President George Bush shakes runs an average of 18.25 seconds hands with Michele Langford, a recipient of the President’s Volunteer Revved up and ready to roll per lap. That’s about a 75 mph Service Award, in the East Room of the White House during a average speed.” celebration of Military Spouse Day May 10. Story and photo by PA1 Tasha Tully, PADET St. Petersburg Brown’s wife Olga, along with their children George, Daniel, oast Guard spouse Michele Langford received the President’s Stephanie and Samantha, their Volunteer Service Award May 10 during a ceremony held in grandson Brenden and many C the East Room of the White House. Langford was one of six friends from the Bradenton area, military spouses chosen to receive the award from President George continue to encourage his efforts to W. Bush.

t’s the end of another and since their uncle is in the paying attention to what was sweltering, humid day on Coast Guard, they like cheering on actually taking place, and I became improve his speed and standings “You cannot be a nation with a volunteer Army unless you honor www.uscg.mil/magazine Florida’s West Coast. Cars are the Coast Guard car.” a big fan of racing.” during this season’s races. the military families, and that’s what we’re doing today,” said Bush crammed into a sandy parking The No. 6 Coast Guard car is Brown didn’t grow up with a Although Brown doesn’t get to during the Military Spouse Day ceremony, which is held the Friday I spend as much time as he’d like before Mother’s day each year to acknowledge the impact military lot with their windows cracked a two-door, 1978 Chevy Caprice, fondness for racing. Living near a to let the day’s heat escape. The painted to look like a Coast Guard military base in the small town of at the track, he has noticed many spouses have on the readiness and well-being of service members glow of floodlights replaces the 41-foot utility boat. It is bright Lampasas, Texas, his family was similarities between this hobby and to honor their volunteer service. sun’s fierce power as the noises white with that familiar racing much more interested in hunting, and his day-to-day job of being in Langford resides in Alameda, Calif., with her husband, Lt. Ken from a dozen roaring engines stripe across its nose, a Coast fishing and other outdoor sports. charge of a small boat station. Langford, and two children. She serves as president of the Coast “Both require teamwork and Guard East Bay Spouses Association, which helps new military harass the ears of eager fans Guard Auxiliary emblem in the “I learned more and more about Coast Guard making their way to the wooden center of its hood, Coast Guard racing when I started following dedication to achieve goals, both spouses acclimate to the local area and provides them with net- bleachers. The announcer bellows emblems on the sides and a big, Mark, and it has grown into a must be performed with limited working opportunities. She also works with the Layette Fund, an a rowdy welcome through speakers black number six on its doors thrilling pastime for me,” said funding and resources and both outreach service for new parents that provides clothing and nursery surrounding the track. It’s race in honor of the driver’s favorite Brown. have very high maintenance items to junior enlisted families in the local area, is a brownie troop

standards that must be upheld,” leader for the Girl Scouts, and serves as a member of the parent’s • day at Desoto Super Speedway in professional racer. In 2003, Brown transferred from Issue 3 Bradenton, Fla. “I watched an interview with the CGC Mohawk, homeported in Brown emphasizes. advisory committee at the Coast Guard Island Child Development Several young fans, all wearing Mark Martin in the early 1990’s Key West, Fla., to Station Cortez, Whether he’s maintaining a 41- Center. When not volunteering, she’s a full time flight attendant. foot Coast Guard boat or a 17-foot “I’m a very humble person,” said Langford. “I don’t usually like to

Coast Guard t-shirts, sit in the and I was impressed with his and, coincidentally, bought a house • bottom row of the stands while comments regarding the complex within 15 minutes of the speedway. Chevy Caprice, Brown states that, be highlighted for volunteering, but it (the trip to Washington, D.C.) 2007 their mother wedges hearing factors that go into racing,” With his curiosity peaked, Brown “good enough is not enough, and was a fun experience and I enjoyed myself.” protection in their ears. explained BMC Jonathan Brown, went to the track and asked a car we must continually try to improve “The support Coast Guard spouses give service men and women “We come here about once officer in charge of Coast Guard owner “how someone who doesn’t on what we have. In fact, there are is also a service to our nation,” said Adm. Thad Allen, Coast Guard a month,” said Beth Wilson of Station Cortez in Cortez, Fla., and know much about racing goes so many black tire marks along commandant. “I salute all our spouses for their important role in Sarasota, Fla. “My boys get a kick the No. 6 Coast Guard car driver. about getting on a team?” That the car’s body I’m thinking about keeping our forces ready and responsive to the needs of our nation.” out of watching the stock car races, “After listening to him, I started person introduced him to Gus turning her into a buoy tender.” 45 training, he returned, first at just had the best training for this,” Logbook Double-duty Station Hobucken, N.C., then Jones said. at Station Emerald Isle. He’s Wearing only jeans and a T- been volunteering with the No. 7 shirt, Jones strapped on rappelling boatswain Township Fire-Rescue Station 21 gear and was lowered to the frigid throughout his Coast Guard career. river below. Once in the water, he notches It was a quiet morning for detached from the line and swam Jones on Dec. 22, 2006. He was the 100 yards to where the woman on leave working with his father- was floundering. He gave her a daring bridge in-law painting walls in a new- flotation device and then pulled construction house when his fire her back to the bridge against rescue department pager went off. the current. He spent about 20 “I kinda look forward to the minutes in the water. pager going off,” he said. “It’s why After reaching the bridge, a New Story and photo by PA1 Larry Chambers, 5th Dist. I joined in the first place.” He was Bern City fire boat arrived and directed straight to the scene of the pulled Jones and the woman from he area around Coast Guard incident instead of to the firehouse the water. The woman was taken Photo by PA2 Shawn Eggert, 13th Dist. Station Emerald Isle, N.C., to suit up. A woman had jumped to emergency medical workers p Honorable Mentors Medal of Honor T is defined by the water. The off New Bern’s high-rise Neuse standing by, where they began Photo by PA1 Larry Chambers, 5th Dist. network of small towns threaded River Bridge, about an 80-foot drop treating her for hypothermia. She recipient Bruce Crandall, made famous by his portrayal in together by rivers and waterways to the water. Miraculously, she was was taken to a local hospital to Taking the Plunge MK2 Chuck Anderson, the movie “We Were Soldiers,” talks with crewmembers are some of the earliest colonial still alive. receive further treatment. from Sector Field Office Cape Hatteras, N.C., aboard the CGC Mellon in Seattle April 4. Crandall and settlements in the New World. Responders had already thrown “The fact that he risked his own re-enlists for six years while swimming with the fellow Medal of Honor recipient Tommy Norris shared Heroes famous and unsung have her a heaving line when Jones safety to save another does not sharks at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke their war experiences and thoughts on leadership with been made here for centuries arrived on scene, but she was too surprise me,” said BMCS Scott Island, N.C., April 6. As tourists looked on, the crew. They also visited Sector Seattle and made a – heroes like BM2 Nathan Jones. weak to hold on and hypothermia Hooley, officer-in-charge of Station Anderson, 24, took an oath of enlistment by his trip to Integrated Support Command Seattle’s museum Jones, 26, was born in New was beginning to set in as she Emerald Isle. “I am proud of his commanding officer, Lt. Dave Obermeier in the where they viewed an exhibit on the Coast Guard’s Bern, N.C., and has been serving struggled to keep her head above selfless action. The training he only Medal of Honor recipient, Douglas Munro. While the community since he signed on water. The on-scene coordinator has received from his service in the aquarium’s 285,000-gallon Graveyard of the Atlantic as a junior firefighter at the age of knew someone had to go in after Coast Guard undoubtedly assisted tank. Anderson volunteers as a diver at the there, the two Vietnam War heroes met with members of 16. When he was 17 years old, he her. Jones, who had rescue him with this rescue, but his aquarium when he is off duty. the Chief Petty Officers Association and Adm. Richard enlisted in the Coast Guard. “I just swimming training from the Coast actions off duty on this day reflect Houck, the 13th District commander. liked helping people,” he said when Guard, volunteered to go. his true character.” asked why he joined. “There were four or five other With people calling him a hero, Upon completing basic guys who volunteered to go in, I Jones remains modest about CGC Oak rescuers garner commendations the rescue. “Everybody worked together to rescue her,” Jones said. “I couldn’t be prouder of this for pulling couple from burning wreckage young man,” said Capt. Dean Lee, Sector North Carolina’s ight Coast Guardsmen Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, for both victims finding the woman commander. “This is one of those assigned to the CGC the ship’s haul-out period when a with no pulse and not breathing.

Oak received four Ford Mustang careened across the Slade and a nurse on the scene rare individuals who does not leave E www.uscg.mil/magazine his search and rescue mentality at Commendation Medals, one median and collided with a Dodge quickly began cardiopulmonary the threshold. He was willing to do Achievement Medal and three Caravan that was traveling in front resuscitation and successfully what it took to save a life on or off Letters of Commendation for their of them. The Mustang exploded resuscitated the woman. duty.” daring rescue of a couple from a upon impact and engulfed the front When the ambulance and burning vehicle following a fatal of the Caravan. emergency services arrived, Slade accident on Interstate 95 near “I looked up and saw a ball continued to assist with rescue t Homegrown Hero Last Manning, S.C., Aug. 20, 2006. of fire whizzing in front of the efforts, monitoring the woman’s December, New Bern, N.C., native In a ceremony held at Sector government vehicle,” said Slade. vital signs and taking over CPR BM2 Nathan Jones rappelled 80 feet Miami April 23, Rear Adm. Slade dialed 911 and then when necessary. Slade served as Coast Guard David Kunkel, Seventh District approached the burning Caravan. a critical part of the EMT team from the span of New Bern’s Neuse commander, presented awards All four doors had been and did not leave the woman’s side River bridge to the frigid waters to BMC Bruce Swain, HS1 Gerrit sealed shut by the impact of until she was airlifted from the below to rescue a woman who Slade, EM1 Miguel Ortiz, MK2 the accident. Three of Slade’s accident site. •

jumped off the bridge. Jones, who Arthur Urann, BM3 Theodore shipmates broke several of the “At first I didn’t want anything Issue 3 spends his off-duty time volunteering Aniskoff, EM3 Schmid Joseph, van’s windows before the doors to do with recognition or awards, at the No. 7 Township Fire and BM3 Mathew Bearekman and SN could be pried open far enough to but I now appreciate the honor,”

Steven Lyons. pull the couple out. said Slade. “I hope this serves as •

Rescue Station 21, responded to 2007 the fire department call and used his “Petty Officer Slade and the “I found a headrest in the grass an example to other Coasties that Coast Guard rescue swimmer skills seven other crewmembers from off to the side of the road from we are ‘Always Ready’ and to also the Oak are an excellent example one of the vehicles and someone remember how fast things can go to pull the woman to safety. Jones of the courage and moral fiber our grabbed it from me to break the wrong.” has been nominated for the Coast Coast Guardsmen are made of,” glass,” said Aniskoff. Guard’s Silver Lifesaving award for said Kunkel. The crewmembers Once out of the vehicle, Slade Story by PA1 Jennifer Johnson, his selfless action. had just started traveling to the assessed the medical condition of 7th Dist. 47 Coast Guard Foundation fund Logbook Four decades provides valuable equipment

he Coast Guard Founda- Guardsman received a of dedication to tion, Inc., is a non-profit 20-minute calling card so they T organization that serves the could call loved ones during the men and women of the U.S. Coast holidays. Guard and its Academy. The Evergreen Fund provided teaching SAR One source of funding from $325,000 in 2002; $500,000 in the Foundation is the Evergreen 2003; $600,000 in 2004; $315,000

Fund. Health, wellness and in 2005; and $600,000 in 2006. of Coast Guard Photo courtesy Foundation recreation projects not funded in Since 1986, when the the Coast Guard’s budget are organization changed its focus p Then The National Search USCG Photos courtesy National SAR School addressed through this fund, from the needs of the Academy and Rescue School was established in 1966 which reaches all nine of the Coast to the needs of the entire Coast in an abandoned barracks on Governor’s Island in N.Y. Guard’s national districts. Guard family, the Foundation has Four Coast Guardsmen and two Air Force members In the past five years, the provided scholarships to children staffed the school to serve the needs of both services, a Evergreen Fund has provided of enlisted personnel, awarded practice that continues today. more than $2.3 million worth of educational grants to Coast equipment to Coast Guard Guardsmen pursuing college learning centers, morale facilities, degrees and distributed funding t Now In 1989, the National SAR School relocated to stations and ships. among all nine Coast Guard p Lots of Fund A Coast training center Yorktown, Va. More than 29,000 students The fund has impacted more districts, overseas units and Guardsman makes good use of from nearly 150 nations have been through the school in than 250 Coast Guard units. In the Academy. fitness equipment provided through the last 40 years. addition, every enlisted Coast the Evergreen Fund.

n 1831, the Secretary of the Treasury directed included the “manual solution method.” Worksheets, In 2006, the Coast Guard’s Evergreen Fund distributed $600,000 to purchase morale and the revenue cutter Gallatin to cruise the East maneuvering boards, dividers and triangles were Coast in search of persons in distress. This used to manually calculate datum (the most probable recreational equipment for hundreds of bases and cutters throughout the service. Below was the first time a government agency was location of a search object corrected for drift at sea) are some examples of what the money provided. tasked specifically to “search” for those who and the search area. In the last decade, sophisticated mightI be in danger. The cornerstone of the Coast computer modeling and planning tools have replaced Guard’s mission is and has always been search and these manual methods. 1st Dist: $23,000 – fitness equip- 14th Dist: $10,000 – distance rescue - saving lives. During that time, training tools have evolved from ment, a desktop computer, bicycles, learning centers, kayak, photogra- SAR changed on Oct. 10, 1966, when the Coast slide projectors and reel-to-reel training films to DVD CLEP study guides and leadership phy equipment and snorkeling gear Guard and Air Force joined forces and successfully videos, computerized presentations and hands-on opened the doors to the National SAR School. SAR role-playing scenarios. books experts from both the Coast Guard and Air Force Over the years, changes weren’t just on the 17th Dist: $22,000 – E-learning

5th Dist: $18,000 – LCD TV, centers, new furniture, gym flooring, Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service had been inside the school house. In 1966, the school’s single www.uscg.mil/magazine aware of an increasing need to establish a school classroom home was an abandoned Army barracks on fitness equipment, E-learning boat engine, fitness equipment devoted to training professionals to conduct search Governor’s Island, N.Y. In 1989, the school relocated system and rescue at sea and on land. to the Coast Guard Training Center in Yorktown, Va. LANTAREA: $44,000 – E-learning “The goal of the National SAR School is to train the In 1995, the school moved from Hamilton Hall to its 7th Dist: $27,000 – weights, centers, fitness equipment, fishing finest search and rescue professionals in the world,” present day location in Canfield Hall. This move was fitness equipment, laptop computer and camping gear and educational said Cmdr. Ron LaBrec, chief of the National SAR necessary to accommodate a much-needed modern guides School. Since its inception, the school’s mission has training facility that included, for the first time, been: computerized SAR programs. 8th Dist: $25,500 – bicycles, new To help ensure that the Coast Guard SAR volleyball court, new computer, PACAREA: $28,000 – fitness Coast Guard “To promote standardization and community is aligned with Coast Guard Commandant workout gear, fishing gear, fitness equipment, equipment and educational materials professionalism within the search SAR policy, the National SAR School’s Command surround sound system and rescue community by providing Center Standardization Team was created in 2001. MLCLANT: $14,000 – computer software, comprehensive SAR training to selected The CCST provides quality field training while 9th Dist: $20,000 – computer software, textbook educational materials, new books, technical library, • Coast Guard, Air Force and other ensuring sector and district command centers are Issue 3 library, playground equipment heart-rate monitors of Coast Guard Statistics courtesy Foundation personnel.” within compliance. “Simply put, we produce lifesavers,” said LaBrec. 11th Dist: $14,000 – fitness machines, workout gear MLCPAC: $12,500 – CLEP DVDs, computer •

The school started with a meager $15,000, a vacant My desire is at the end of their stay, students leave 2007 WWII Army barracks and six highly experienced Coast with the skills, confidence and committment they need and a new power sled software and fitness equipment Guard and Air Force members. Since the first class of to do the best job possible for the American people.” graduates 40 years ago, more than 29,000 have joined 13th Dist: $17,000 – new gym flooring, Headquarters: $25,000 – fitness equipment and the ranks of trained SAR professionals including more Story by Lt. j.g. Todd Hartfiel and Chris White, distance learning centers, fitness equipment bicycles than 2,000 international students from 148 nations. National SAR School For the first decade, SAR “tools of the trade” 49 Master chiefs become first Greetings From CGC Juniper: ATON Excellence Housing: Average rent in CG intelligence specialists Newport for a two bedroom ince its commissioning 11 sensory equipment. The machin- apartment is $1,000. The The Coast Guard launched the service’s new years ago, the CGC Juniper ery plan control and monitoring communities of Middleton and intelligence specialist rate April 23 with a “plank owner” S has developed a truly system collects data from hundreds Portsmouth offer more affordable ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters. Coast Guard multi-mission readiness across a of sensors throughout the ship to alternatives, and government Commandant Adm. Thad Allen and James Sloan, wide spectrum of Coast Guard create an accurate overview of the housing is available. assistant commandant for Intelligence and Criminal missions. From Aids-to-navigation status of all the ship’s systems. The Investigations, presided over the ceremony where IS and law enforcement to ice-break- Juniper’s bow and stern thrusters, Weather: Summers see tem- rating force manager ISCM David Rochefort and fellow ing and search and rescue, the engines and DGPS receivers are peratures in the mid 70s, while master chiefs Brian Lincoln and Mark Pearson became seven officer and 37 enlisted crew linked together through the Winter temperatures dip into the the first Coast Guard intelligence specialists. of the Newport, R.I.-based buoy dynamic positioning system, 30s. Allen praised the men and women working in Coast tender execute their missions with allowing the ship to automatically Photo by PA1 Tasha Tully, PADET St. Petersburg Guard intelligence for their “willingness, capacity and efficiency and precision. hold a particular heading, course, Facilities: The Naval Education competency,” saying that the creation of this new rating p Navy Vice Adm. David The 225-foot Juniper is or even position, minimizing the and Training Center Newport CENTCOM Confab responsible for more than 200 risk posed to deck forces while they will greatly benefit the service’s intelligence work. Nichols, deputy commander of U.S Central provides a host of services to When staffed, the nearly 400 active duty and reserve buoys from Sandy Hook, N.J., to bring 18,000-pound buoys onto the Command, provides Coast Guard Vice Adm. D. Brian Juniper crewmembers. The base enlisted and warrant officers will be tasked to collect, Cape Cod, Mass., and many of deck. has an exchange, commissary process, analyze and disseminate intelligence in support Peterman, Atlantic Area commander, an operational the ATON trips take the Juniper When not on duty, crewmembers and a very active Morale Welfare of Coast Guard operational missions. update on the Coast Guard’s involvement in maritime to waterways such as the New enjoy Juniper’s homeport or one of and Recreation office. Presently, applications to lateral to the IS rating and security operations in the Persian Gulf during York City approaches, Long Island a number of liberty ports includ- warrant officer specialty are being accepted by Coast Peterman’s visit to CENTCOM Jan. 4. “The Coast Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzard’s ing Boston, Manhattan, Nantucket, Education: Nearby colleges Guard Personnel Command. Lateral panels will convene Guard is heavily involved with maritime security Bay and Nantucket. Every quarter, Martha’s Vineyard or Washington, include the University of Rhode this summer and those chosen will formally transition to operations in the Persian Gulf and we appreciate the Juniper’s fully-capable board- D.C. Newport itself is one of the Island, Roger Williams University, ing teams conduct law enforcement liveliest and most beautiful their new rate on Jan. 1, 2008. their support,” said Nichols. Headquartered at MacDill Salve Regina and Community The lateral application process is detailed in ALCOAST boardings during living marine communities in Rhode Island. Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., CENTCOM is College of Rhode Island. 078/07. Additional information can be found on Coast resources patrols, which enforce Sailing and other watersports are Guard Central. From the CGCentral home page, go to comprised of members from all five branches of the fishing regulations in the popular in the summer, and New- “Strategic Initiatives,” then “Future Force,” then U.S. Armed Forces and is responsible for operations economically and ecologically port is close to many of the skiing q The “Intelligence Specialist Enlisted rating and CWO in 27 nations including Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. sensitive southern New England and snowboarding resorts in New Reflective Presence Intelligence Systems Specialist.” Currently, there are more than 300 Coast Guard fishing grounds. England. CGC Juniper transits the Potomac members serving in-theater aboard seven Coast Successful operations are due in For more, visit the Juniper’s Web River near Alexandria, Va., at sunrise Story provided by Lt. j.g. Marie Barry, Guard cutters. part to the ships advanced site at http://www.uscg.mil/d1/ Feb. 21. The 225-foot buoy tender is CG-2, Office of Intelligence and Criminal Investigations navigation, maneuvering and units/cgcjuniper/index.html. homeported in Newport, R.I.

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players extend multi-million dollar sponsorship of SAT/ Coast Guard ACT test prep programs to all members of the military and their families. To order the prep programs, visit http://www.militaryhomefront.dod.mil to verify your • Issue 3 military status. The Web site will then forward you to Photo by PA2 CG Imagery Constantina Mourtos, the eKnowledge/NFL sponsorship page where you can request the programs.

Last year the program shipped more than 48,000 CDs • and DVDs, totaling $6.9 million, worldwide. eKnowledge 2007 has pledged to donate up to $10 million in free SAT/ACT Fill in the blank spaces in the grid so that every vertical column, every horizontal row and every 3 x 3 box contains programs through the end of this year. the letters C-O-A-S-T-G-U-R-D, without repeating any. The “We owe our military service members and their solved puzzle can be found in the online version of Coast families a heartfelt ‘thank you’ for their sacrifice and Guard Magazine at www.uscg.mil/magazine. honorable service to our country,” said eKnowledge CEO Charlie Beall. 51 Investing for technology success

their systems secure. EA: performance, business, C4&IT releases “Enterprise Architecture information, services, technology, enterprise architecture, is essential to successfully and security (see information box align C4&IT investments with below). ensures technology mission execution,” said Adm. Once there, users can locate Ronald Hewitt, former assistant information about planned investments meet needs commandant for C4&IT. “EA services for performing reviews of mission execution ensures that each C4&IT of requests for new technologies. investment is tied to mission and There is a simple five-step process business needs and not done just for going through these reviews, nformation is critical to every for technology’s sake. EA also and the necessary submission Coast Guard job, and it’s up ensures that all the various C4&IT forms and instructions are I to the team at Command, projects being developed will work provided. The findings and Control, Communications, together when they are deployed.” recommendations from these Computers and Information EA is a significant portion of reviews are provided to the C4&IT Technology (C4&IT) to provide Commandant Intent Action Order Investment Review Board, which “cradle-to-grave” information (CIAO) No. 10, which entrusts determines project approval and systems and technologies that are C4&IT to better serve the needs funding. matched to the agency’s mission of all internal and external and business needs and goals. customers through complete What’s next? On May 15, C4&IT took another delivery of e-Coast Guard. step toward that goal with the EA can be used by anyone In this first release of the EA, first release of a new enterprise who is working on a project with C4&IT developed a governance architecture (version 1.0). C4⁢ looking to acquire C4&IT process for new C4&IT requests resources, such as software or as well as an initial set of What is EA? hardware; or seeking to align their information products that show initiatives with the Coast Guard’s some of the relationships between EA is a discipline that brings C4&IT strategy and standards. technology investments and together key business and mission performance. As they technical information across How to use it move forward, C4&IT will continue the organization to support to bring new information into the better decision-making. EA EA information is easily EA knowledge center and to share knowledge helps users align accessible through the EA Web that information throughout the their technologies to support site on CGCentral. (Click on agency, creating an environment the Coast Guard mission, “Resources” then “Enterprise of transparency and improved pursue information sharing and Architecture” on the left menu decision-making. accessibility, build interoperable bar.) The EA Web site provides a

applications, comply with robust knowledge center where Story by Andrew Blumenthal, director, www.uscg.mil/magazine technology standards, develop a user can navigate through Office of Enterprise Architecture and performance measures and make the six “perspectives” of the C4&IT Planning

Six EA Perspectives • Performance: The measurement of strategic and business outcomes. (Coast Guard Budget-in-Brief and Performance Report) Coast Guard • Business: The functions and activities that the Coast Guard performs. (Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security) • Information: The information needed to perform CG mission and business activities. (Vessels, cargo, parties, patrols, rescues, boardings, • investigations) Issue 3 • Services: The applications and capabilities that support CG information requirements. (MISLE) • 2007 • Technology: The underlying technology that supports service delivery. (Coast Guard Data Network) • Security: The assurance of confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy. (MISLE certification and accreditation) 23 Protecting the Past A Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team from New Orleans provides security for the Jamestown Settlement ships Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, in Jamestown, Va., May 11. The three ships are replicas of the original ships that brought the first English colonists to Virginia in 1607. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement.

Photo by PA2 Christopher Evanson, 5th Dist.