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14 Cover Story Nor’easter 24 Story by 1st Dist. Public Affairs Staff AlexExhibit Salutes Haley Coast Guard’s First Chief Features Spectacular Success 10 Journalist By PA1 Mike O’Berry, CG Magazine State of the Coast Guard 12 By Adm. Thad Allen, Commandant early 150 guests including friends, depicted how saddened service members Air Intercept 14 family and admirers attended the were that family members did not write to 20 Story by PA1 John Edwards, PADET Atlantic City Broward County African- them, were reprinted in numerous American Research Library and Cultural newspapers across the states. Alexander Hamilton 20 Story by PA2 Judy Silverstein, USCGR Center (AARLCC) in Plantation, Fla., when Haley later became a reporter, assistant Nit opened its doors Jan. 5 to a new exhibit editor, and finally editor of the Coast Guard’s Ghost Station 30 featuring the life’s work of the Coast Guard’s publication, “The Helmsman.” In June 1949, Story by PA1 Larry Chambers, 5th Dist. first chief journalist. the Coast Guard officially recognized Haley’s Coast Guard Lady 32 “The Voyages of Alex Haley” is an exhibit outstanding achievements, changed his Story and photos by PA1 Nyxolyno Cangemi, 8th Dist. that chronicles the struggles and rating, and promoted him to journalist, first accomplishments of the Pulitzer Prize - class. winning author who began his incredible After retiring as a chief journalist in 1959, writing career as a mess attendant in the Haley went on to pursue a career as a Coast Guard. full-time writer. His endless pursuit to learn “We are taking time out to recognize one of about his African ancestors was later our service’s heroes,” said Capt. Ekundayo documented in his novel, “Roots: The Saga of Faux, commanding officer of the Integrated an American Family.” 24 Support Command Miami, who presented a “Roots” won Haley the Pulitzer Prize in commemorative plaque to the exhibitors on 1976 and broke unprecedented racial behalf of the crew of the CGC Alex Haley. barriers when it was televised on ABC as an “Very few minorities at that time got as far eight part miniseries in 1977. as he did and he serves as an inspiration for “‘Roots’ was the first major piece that those that continue to serve in the Armed pulled things together and answered Forces today.” questions about our ancestry,” said Derek The Alex Haley collection contains Davis, head of programs and exhibits for personal letters, reflective photos, AARLCC. “‘Roots’ was not just someone unpublished manuscripts and original glossing over a sad time. After seeing ‘Roots,’ articles published in such magazines as the it was the first time I started seeing the same Saturday Evening Post and Playboy. faces on TV that I had been seeing in my Haley joined the Coast Guard in 1939 when community.” Departments the mess attendant and steward’s rate were Alex Haley died in Seattle in 1992, but his the only ratings open to minorities. With no life and accomplishments are still celebrated Up Front 2 official occupational training center, Haley throughout the Coast Guard. In 1991, the All Coast learned his arduous job through veterans service commissioned a 210-foot medium 6 and on-the-job training. However, during long endurance cutter in his honor that is Log Book With an M-240-B 36 patrols, Haley began using his talent and homeported in Kodiak, Alaska; created a On The Cover machine gun at the ready, SN Darcy McGrail, of earning extra money ghost writing expressive scholarship fund that is awarded each year Station Boston, watches Boston Harbor during an letters home for his shipmates. to eight students seeking a higher education; LNG security escort Jan. 11. — Page 24 After serving several years on different and created an award in his name that ships in the service and seeing action in the recognizes authors who continue to Photo by PA2 Luke Pinneo, 1st Dist. Pacific during WWII, Haley began writing communicate the Coast Guard Story. about what combat was like for the privately owned Coast Guard Magazine. A number of Story by PA2 Jennifer Johnson, 7th Dist. his articles including “Mail Call,” which Photos provided by the Coast Guard Historian, CG-09224 Up Front Visual Inspection CWO Scott Hogan and MST1 Loran Tong, with the Prevention Department’s Inspections Division in Sector Detroit, conduct a damage survey in the enormous cargo hold of one of the Great Lakes’ largest U.S. vessels, the M/V Edwin H. Gott. The Gott, at 1004-feet with a cargo capacity of 74,100 tons, is one of 13 giant ships sailing the Great Lakes that are commonly referred to as 1000-footers. The Gott is carrying Taconite (iron ore pellets).

Photo by MST1 Ezra Graham, Sector Detroit

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3 Up Front Bird Bath AMT2 Kate Wakefield and AMT1 Dmitry Tokarsky of Air Station Humboldt Bay, Calif., diligently put one of the station’s HH-65s through the wash cycle to help keep the fleet looking its best Jan. 25.

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Adm. Thad Allen q Jumping to Conclusions Wiley and his handler MST1 David Ruhlig, from Commandant Maritime Safety and Security Team 91106, New York assist the U.S. Capitol Police with perimeter Vice Adm. Vivien Crea inspections for explosives on vehicles entering the zone where President Bush was to speak, Vice Commandant Feb. 5. The President addressed the Democratic Issues Conference in Williamsburg, Va. MSST Rear Adm. Mary Landry 91106 provided waterside security for the four-day event and was joined by the CGC Cochito and Director of Governmental & a 25-foot defender-class boat from Station Portsmouth, Va. during the Presidential visit. Public Affairs Capt. James McPherson Photo by Lt. Cmdr. Richard Condit, Sector Hampton Roads, Va. Chief, Public Affairs Patricia Miller

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magazine Web site and click on www.uscg.mil/magazine “submissions” or call the editor at p Matriarch’s Farewell The CGC Storis, the “Queen of the t King of New Orleans (202) 372-4612. Fleet,” was decommissioned at a ceremony held at Coast Guard base Kodiak, Vice Adm. Brian Peterman (right), Coast Guard, COMDT PUB Alaska Feb. 8. The crew of the Storis began their last patrol in Alaska waters commander Coast Guard Atlantic Area, P5720.2, is produced for October 2006. The Storis held the designation of the oldest Coast Guard and Rear Adm. Joel Whitehead, members of the U.S. Coast cutter in the fleet. CGC Achusnet, Ketchikan, Alaska, was given the commander Eighth Coast Guard Guard. Editorial content is unofficial and not authority for action. Views designation as the next “Queen of the Fleet” during the Storis’ District, pose for a photograph with King and opinions expressed do not deommissioning ceremony. and Queen Zulu aboard the CGC Harry necessarily reflect those of the Coast Guard Claiborne, during Lundi Gras festivities, Department of Homeland Security or the Coast Guard. Photo by PA2 Christopher McLaughlin, PADET Kodiak in New Orleans Feb. 19. Lundi Gras Stories may be reprinted except (French for Fat Monday) begain in New Associated Press wire stories and articles reprinted from other

Orleans in 1874. The Coast Guard • publications. Issue 2 escorted the queen and king ashore as part of the Coast Guards annual

participation in Mardi Gras festivities. • 2007

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t Dog School Hawk entertains as his handler BM2 Sandor Csitar, from the Maritime Safety and Security Team 91105, San Francisco, K-9 unit talked to local elementary students about his job in the Coast Guard at Sector San Francisco Jan. 8.

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u Hot Spot MK2 Adam Aguilar and MK3 Paul King maneuver a hose to douse a boat fire. DC1 Kevin Corderman (right) coaches the Coast Guardsmen as part of a man overboard/boat fire drill on the CGC Petrel in San p Island Welcome Two Marine Safety and Security Teams and the CGC Kiska arrive at Barbers Point Diego Harbor Feb. 2. The drill is Harbor after escorting the motor vessel Tong Cheng from an anchorage South of Honolulu Harbor. A temporary patch was part of the Special and Emergency applied by U.S. Navy Dive Salvage Unit One Jan. 21, to a 56-inch crack in the hull of the Tong Cheng. The 485-foot Operations and Procedures Chinese-flagged cargo ship had requested and was approved authorization for an unscheduled entry into the port of training that all Coast Guard Honolulu to effect repairs to the crack in its hull below the waterline. vessels less than 175-feet go through annually. Photo by PA3 Luke Clayton, 14th Dist. Photo by PA1 Anastasia Devlin, u Cannon PADET San Diego

Fire www.uscg.mil/magazine Crewmembers from the CGC Edisto fire the newly-installed 25- mm machine gun t Hazardous Training Members of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Strike during an Team hold a safety briefing prior to beginning operational and a training exercise at the Philadelphia Navy Coast Guard structural test fire Yard Feb. 20. The Atlantic Strike Team offshore of San consists of individuals who can rapidly deploy Diego, Feb. 16. to assist Federal on-scene coordinators in This test ensures

preparing for and minimizing the impacts • the weapon is Issue 2 from oil discharges, hazardous materials functioning release and incidents of weapons of mass properly and destruction. • safely. 2007 Photo by Cmdr. David Haynes, Photo by PA1 Atlantic Strike Team Anastasia Devlin, PADET San Diego 9 u Bounty of Bails Approximately 42,845 pounds of cocaine sits on the deck of the CGC Sherman March 20. The Sherman, a C-130 and the CGC Hamilton participated in an international, interagency operation to “Spectacular Success” record the largest maritime cocaine seizure in history. As part of an international, interagency effort, a of the Coast Guard. “Beyond that, our hard working Coast Guard eclipses maritime Coast Guard C-130 maritime patrol aircraft spotted crews overcame significant challenges in maintain- the Panamanian flagged motor vessel Gatun ing a 40-year old deepwater cutter to prosecute this cocaine seizure record, nabbing approximately 20 miles southwest of Isla de Coiba, mission far from U.S. shores, ultimately preventing Panama, on March 17. Once the Coast Guard more than 20 tons of cocaine from reaching streets all more than 19 metric tons in bust obtained permission from Panama to board the Gatun, across America in a single stroke.” a boarding team made up of members from both the “This weekend Mexican drug traffickers were off the Panamanian coast Sherman and Hamilton conducted a search and waiting the arrival of 19 metric tons of cocaine that is discovered the cocaine hidden in two containers on now in the hands of U.S. law enforcement instead of escribed by Capt. Charlie Diaz, commanding the deck of the ship. The 14 Panamanian and Mexican the hands of drug traffickers and abusers,” said DEA officer of the CGC Sherman, as a crewmembers of the Gatun were arrested and Administrator Karen Tandy. straightforward vessel boarding with transferred to U.S. and Panamanian authorities for The Coast Guard’s previous seizure record was D“spectacular success,” the Coast Guard and prosecution. 30,000 pounds in September 2004. the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration annouced “This record breaking seizure was the result of good As of March 21, the Coast Guard has seized the record maritime seizure of approximately 42,845 actionable intelligence and the closest collaboration 167,645 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2007, which pounds of cocaine by the CGCs Sherman and amongst our interagency partners through Operation is more than the yearly totals of all but three of the Hamilton March 18. Panama Express,” said Adm. Thad Allen, commandant last 15 fiscal years.

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Shadowing Sherman Issue 2 to the Panamanian-flagged Gatun. Acting on information provided in collaboration with interagency partners through Operation Panama Express, a Coast Guard

boarding team made up of crewmembers from both the Sherman and the CGC • Hamilton, based in San Diego, boarded the Gatun and found more than 19 metric 2007 tons of cocaine hidden in two cargo containers on the deck of the ship.

11 State of the Coast Guard

We need to reorganize The complex challenges and Enhancing unity of effort in maritime our command and threats facing the United States planning and operations: The nation must better integrate its operational capabilities and efforts control structure require that the Coast Guard think across government and with private sector partners. around and act anew. Integrating Coast Guard capabilities “ one commander During his State of the Coast Guard for national defense: The nation needs both in the field Address Feb. 13, the Commandant of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard capabilities along its own We have challenges responsible for the Coast Guard identified six strate- coast, on the seas and deployed abroad in support of before us, and national security interests. mission execution gic priorities that improve the nation’s we need to position and reorganize preparedness and advance U.S. mari- Developing a national capacity for the service for the marine transportation system and realign time interests. These priorities draw “ future.

recovery: The nation needs a coordinated, www.uscg.mil/magazine our support systems on the Coast Guard’s key strengths integrated approach to planning for and responding The Coast Guard around and outline how the Coast Guard will to major disruptions in the marine trnasportation demonstrates system. one commander work to improve safety, security and operational in the field stewardship in the maritime domain. Focusing international engagement excellence in every- responsible for on improving maritime governance: thing we do, Strengthening regimes for the U.S. The nation benefits from strong maritime relation- mission support. ships and capacities around the world because today’s and our men and Coast Guard The nation needs a set of maritime domain: global maritime system ties U.S. interests and welfare coordinated and interlocking domestic and interna- women -Admiral Thad Allen, to the effective maritime governance of all nations and tional regimes that increase transparency of activity, Commandant USCG the global commons. are a source reduce risk and balance competing uses within the

of personal • maritime domain. A complete transcription of the Commandant’s Issue 2 ” State of the Coast Guard Address is available inspiration and pride. Achieving awareness in the on CG Central and on the internet at www.uscg. •

maritime domain: The nation needs a greater mil/comdt. A PODCAST of the address is also - Admiral Thad Allen, 2007 awareness and effective understanding of maritime available online at www.military.com to viewers Commandant USCG activity. outside of the Coast Guard Standard Network. ” 13 Monumental Defenders A Coast Guard HH- 65C Dolphin helicopter passes over Washington D.C., Feb. 9 during a National Capital Region air defense training mission. With the new engine and communica- tion upgrades from the Deepwater program increasing the helicopter’s capabilities, the Coast Guard has been tasked with intercepting low-flying, slow-speed aircraft Air Intercept: in restricted air space. Taking a Coast Guard Mission To New Heights Story By PA1 John Edwards, PADET Atlantic City

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23 Photo by PA1 John Edwards, PADET Atlantic City PADET John Edwards, Photo by PA1 helicopter, flying officially assumed responsibility of Homeland Security assets to low and fast over for the Rotary Wing Air Intercept provide safety and security to not the nation’s capital, (RWAI) mission from Customs and only the federal government and changes its direc- Border Protection. entities within Washington, D.C., tion with surgical “The Coast Guard’s unique but its citizens as well,” said Lt. precision. The crew authorities and competencies as Zach Mathews, pilot at Air aboard scans the both a military service and a Station Atlantic City. “This skies for their target. They are federal law enforcement agency mission also protects the pilots of Ain pursuit of an aircraft that has enable us to assume permanent general aviation aircraft who may entered the restricted airspace over responsibility for executing the have inadvertently flown into the Washington, D.C. Their mission: vital mission of protecting the Air Defense Identification Zone interception. National Capital Region airspace (ADIZ) whether due to mechani- Although it may sound like a for the Department of Homeland cal or electronic malfunction or by scene from a movie, it is in fact Security in support of NORAD’s simple confusion,” he said. just another day on the job for multi-layered air defense mission,” In order for the pilots and crew crewmembers from Coast Guard said Adm. Thad W. Allen, comman- of the air station to accommodate Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., who dant, U.S. Coast Guard. this full time mission into their have recently been tasked with Part of that multi-layered air already busy schedules of search Atlantic City PADET John Edwards, Photo by PA1 conducting the Coast Guard’s defense mission has the Coast and rescue and law enforcement, National Capital Region (NCR) Guard working directly under the the unit has been outfitted with p An illuminated sign flashes the word q Too Close For Comfort Hurry Up and Wait air defense mission. The bright direction of the North American four additional HH-65C Dolphin “Warning” through the window of a Coast Guard HH-65C Dolphin helicopter Cmdr. Robert Makowsky and Lt. orange colored helicopters that are Aerospace Defense Command helicopters on top of its previous at Air Station Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 11, 2006. Kevin D’Eustachio wait with AMT3 so common to coastal community (NORAD) and partnering with total of six and has increased its John Sickerott for the alarm to sound residents and beach goers across other federal, state and local permanent party staff from 80 are taught to the pilots by instruc- “The Coast alerting them to their next “target” the nation are now becoming a fa- agencies to protect critical billets to 160. Although the tors from the Coast Guard Aviation during a rotary wing air intercept miliar sight in the skies over D.C. infrastructure and personnel. “We increase is critical to mission Training Center (ATC) in Mobile, Guard’s unique drill at Air Station Atlantic City, New In a small ceremony held on work alongside countless Depart- success, the personnel at the air Ala. authorities and Jersey, on March 23, 2006. Sept. 25, 2006, the Coast Guard ment of Defense and Department station face challenges resulting For the last three years, ATC competencies as from an increased mission load. Mobile has conducted intercept both a military “The strain from going from training at its facility for Coast 80 to 160 people in the hangar Guard pilots. Training consists of service and a requires that additional training learning how to intercept targets- federal law flights must be scheduled in order of-interest at night using night enforcement agency to keep these folks current with vision goggles and classes on enable us to their semi-annual minimums,” intercept terminology and said Mathews. Crews must missions. Additionally, pilots must assume permanent perform a set number of flight learn and practice techniques that responsibility for

maneuvers, approaches to the place them extraordinarily close to executing the vital www.uscg.mil/magazine water, rescue hoists and swim- other aircraft. mission of mer deployments to maintain “The mission is so unique protecting the their flight ready status. The RWAI that we actually operate under a training is now a part of that Federal Aviation Administration National Capital mandatory semi-annual minimum. waiver because we get so close to Region airspace.” RWAI training is held weekly at the other aircraft,” said Lt. Jeff the air station with the help of the Graham, RWAI instructor at ATC Adm. Thad Allen,

USCG Commandant. Coast Guard Coast Guard Auxiliary. Members Mobile. of the Auxiliary help Coast Guard The focus of this intensive air and boat crews all across the training is to get to the target as country train every day for optimal quickly as possible. “RWAI flights

mission readiness -- and this is no focus on how to get the aircraft • exception. Auxiliary pilots volun- off the ground, up to altitude and Issue 2 teer their time and their aircraft for to the target as expeditiously as these air intercept drills in order to possible,” said Graham. “It focuses • help improve the pilots’ response specifically on launch procedures, 2007 times and to give them a mov- vectors and how to execute the ing target on which to hone their appropriate intercept maneuver flight interception techniques. The depending on the target’s position techniques used in interception and speed,” he said. 17 Photo by PA1 Kim Smith, PADET Atlantic City Kim Smith, PADET Photo by PA1 The training provided by ATC u A Coast Mobile has been utilized prior to the A Capital View Guard HH-65C Dolphin helicopter full time duty of the NCR air defense passes over Washington, D.C., with mission. Coast Guard pilots have participated in intercept-ready the Capital Building in the background, missions such as the 2006 Feb. 9. The Coast Guard operates Superbowl, the Republican and under the direction of NORAD while Democratic National Conventions, protecting the restricted area over the G-8 Summit and in support of Washington, D.C.’s National Capital space shuttle launches. Region. “The primary objective of any interception is to determine intent,” the wings or flashing our naviga- said Cmdr. Jacob Brown, NCR tion lights,” he said. “Using these operations officer. “If they will communication tools is going to be listen to us and are compliant, we a big part of determining if they are can turn them away from the D.C. compliant.” area and they would no longer be a With the Coast Guard’s intensive threat. If they are going out of their training and core mission to protect way to not listen to us, they may the citizens of the United States, “If they are have ill intent and it’s our job to the NCR air defense mission is a going out of their determine that,” he said. natural fit. As the face of the world way to not To determine the intent of the changes, so too must the Coast targeted aircraft, air crews use Guard change in order to meet listen to us, various methods of communication. today’s challenges. Known mostly they may have “The primary means of communica- as guardians of the sea, the public ill intent and tion is going to be the lighted sign recognizes the images of the bright it’s our job to board that gives specific directions orange helicopters saving the lives to the pilots of the aircraft,” Brown of helpless mariners, but now as the determine that.” said. “We will try and raise them citizens of D.C. look to the sky, they Atlantic City PADET John Edwards, Photo by PA1 Cmdr. Jacob Brown, on the radio at 121.5 MHZ and we will see those same NCR operations also use International Civil Aviation guardians taking their mission to officer. Organization signals like rocking new heights.

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u Walk the Line MK2 Adam Prater, stationed with MSST 91108 in King’s Bay, Ga., walks to the hanger following a launch drill for the National Capital Region air defense mission in Washington, D.C., Feb. 9. Atlantic City PADET John Edwards, Photo by PA1 19 Photo by PA1 Kim Smith, PADET Atlantic City Kim Smith, PADET Photo by PA1 A 250-Year Legacy

“A few armed he father of the Revenue Cutter Service — precursor to the modern day Coast Guard vessels, judiciously — remains a brilliant, influential and controversial figure some 250 years after stationed at the his birth. Even the year of his birth is under dispute (some say 1755, others 1757), and controversy has entrances to our ports, always swirled around Hamilton. Though killed Tin perhaps the most famous duel in America, his might at a small profound influence on United States’ governance and philosophy — and the Coast Guard of today — is expense be made useful both impressive and indisputable. lexanderStory by PA2 JudyHamilton Silverstein, USCGR As a changing global landscape dictates the need sentinels of our laws.” for flexibility for the fifth armed service, some of Hamilton’s writings seem even more appropriate to mission execution. “Extraordinary emergencies — Alexander Hamilton, 1787 require extraordinary expedients,” he wrote, as if Federalist Paper Number 12 foreshadowing the Coast Guard’s role in migrant operations, drug interdiction, search and rescue and port security challenges. However, there is little doubt the Revenue Cutter Service — with its eye toward collecting and safeguarding tariffs and combating piracy in our ports, remains a strong legacy for Coast Guardsmen.

u Founding Father This oil painting of Alexander Hamilton by C.L. Ransom hangs in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. As the first Treasury Secretary, Hamilton established the Revenue Cutter Service and is considered the father of the Coast Guard.

A U.S. Coast Guard Photo Hamilton’s formidable influence extended from political “Federalist Paper No. 1,” Hamilton wrote: 1757 Alexander Hamilton is born on philosophy to banking and policy. His writings largely shaped “... it seems to have been reserved to the people of this the British Island of Nevis. thinking in his era and also within the America we live in country, by their conduct and example, to decide this “Those who stand for today. important question: whether societies of men are really 1773 Hamilton is sent to the 13 “Hamilton felt that part of his mission was not only to do, capable or not of establishing good government from reflection nothing fall for Colonies and enrolls at King’s but to speak and to write and to explain,” said Ron Chernow, and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for anything.” College (now Columbia a Hamilton biographer. Hamilton himself was a prolific their political constitutions on accident and force.” writer, churning out some 22,000 pages, now housed in the “The Federalist Papers” have been cited more than 300 University). He takes up the Columbia University Press collection. times in Supreme Court opinions. — Alexander Hamilton Patriots’ cause, writing his first He was an illegitimate child born on Nevis in the West While often considered an elitist, political article in 1774 (he Indies and orphaned early in his life. Working as a clerk for an Hamilton’s roots may have actually made signed himself “A Friend to export-import company, he familiarized himself with the inner him more empathetic toward those from America”) workings of commerce and ports, in a move that was to have more humble beginnings. “There are strong a profound influence on his later work on revenue collection minds in every walk of life that will rise and America’s debt management. When a hurricane barreled superior to the disadvantages of situation 1776 Hamilton is appointed captain of through the Caribbean in August 1772, Hamilton’s graphic and will command the tribute due to their the Provincial Artillery and fights account published in the local newspaper earned him both merit, not only from the classes to which in the battles of Long Island, attention and accolades. His stirring essay prompted those they particularly belong, but from the White Plains and Trenton. from higher status to successfully establish a college fund for society in general. The door ought to be the budding writer to attend King’s College (now Columbia equally open to all,” wrote Hamilton. 1777 Hamilton is appointed a University). Through perseverance, focused study and hard His profound influence on George work, Hamilton started as an unknown and rose to become Washington is matched by his work on lieutenant colonel on George the first Secretary of the Treasury, in 1789. American policy. It ranges from agriculture Washington’s staff. Chernow states Hamilton spent his early years inventing to moral doctrine, the nation’s credit policy himself, and his assessment seems on target. Hamilton to capitalist philosophy and includes tariff 1780 Hamilton witnesses the exposure used his life’s experience and education to help create the collection. Creating “a few armed vessels, of Benedict Arnold’s plot. He philosophy, ideals and governance for our fledgling nation. judiciously stationed at the entrances to marries Elizabeth Schuyler. At a time when America was struggling with staggering debt, our ports,” he also established our strong Hamilton sought to impose order and clarity. legacy of guarding the coast and protecting 1782 Hamilton is elected to the Though often criticized for his British-influenced tendencies the homeland. toward a monarchy, Hamilton sought to impose vigorous In his Letter of Instructions to the Continental Congress. economic principles. Playing a critical role in the Continental Commanding Officers of the Revenue Congress, Hamilton wielded considerable influence in both Cutters, Treasury Department, June 4, 1784 Hamilton helps found New the Federalist Party and George Washington’s cabinet. He 1791, Hamilton set forth the principles York’s first bank and argues worked feverishly to attack the national debt, taxing whiskey of decisive leadership and professional Rutgers vs. Waddington, a and creating a central bank. Hamilton also argued the rights behavior for those standing the watch. “I landmark case concerning the of citizens and that states must be balanced with the rights recommend in the strongest terms to the of an energetic national government to tax, make war and respective officers, activity, vigilance and rights of former Loyalists and regulate civic and commercial life. Hamilton worked hard to firmness, I feel no less solicitude, that their the formulation of judicial review. understand nearly every facet of governance, finance and deportment may be marked with prudence, philosophy as the new nation developed a body of principles moderation and good temper.” It almost 1787 Hamilton attends the and laws, much of which, he influenced. A proponent of seems as if Hamilton sought to leave his Constitutional Convention and modernization, Hamilton authored the Report on Manufactures imprint and well-developed thoughts on begins writing the Federalist in an era when farming was commonplace and technology was nearly every facet of American policy at papers, in collaboration with eyed with suspicion, arguing somewhat prophetically both home and abroad. industry and technology would be essential to the economic “As the father of the Coast Guard, I James Madison and John Jay. health of America. He also wrote the bulk of President continue to look to Hamilton as I navigate George Washington’s 1796 farewell address, setting forth the Coast Guard through the many 1789 Hamilton is appointed the key principles of foreign policy. It further helped frame the challenges we face each and every day in nation’s first Secretary of the departure of the first president — and America’s most famous keeping America safe and secure,” said Treasury. He establishes one of war hero — from public life. A brilliant attorney, Hamilton’s Allen. Administration Falls, courtesyand Records National Archives painting by D.W.C. Watercolor the world’s first modern financial writings are steeped in the foundations of constitutional law. Indeed, Hamilton’s legacy remains “It’s been said that Hamilton was the greatest American vibrant. “A tolerable expertness in military systems. never to be elected President,” said Adm. Thad W. Allen, movements is a business that requires time Commandant of the United States Coast Guard. “The ideals and practice,” he wrote. “It is not a day, or even a week, that p Revolutionary Figure 1796 Hamilton helps draft George and principles he put forward to protect the nation and serve will suffice for the attainment of it.” Alexander Hamilton served Washington’s Farewell Address. its citizens are as relevant today as they were then,” said That’s sage advice for a military, maritime multi-mission Allen. service. as a captain in the New York 1798 Hamilton is appointed a major Along with John Jay and James Madison, Hamilton Provincial Artillery during the general in the U.S. Army. wrote “The Federalist Papers,” initially intended as a series Revolutionary War, eventually of newspaper pieces written to defend the newly minted For more information on Alexander Hamilton, see Ron rising to serve as an aide to 1804 Hamilton fights a duel with Constitution of the United States. However, the writings Chernow’s “Alexander Hamilton” (The Penguin Press, 2004) or quickly became accepted as government doctrine. In visit www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org. Gen. George Washington. Aaron Burr, and is killed.

25-foot response boat bursts through the waves at high speeds. A helicopter crew skillfully lowers their basket to a 41-foot utility boat. Two men attempt to “survive” in 40-degree water in Boston Harbor. A boarding team inspects paperwork aboard a fishing vessel to ensure the master has complied with regulations. A boat crew conducts a law enforcement patrol as the sun sets behind Boston’s skyscrapers. A Jan. 10, 2007 is one day out of the week that is highlighted here and is an example of a typical day for units on the Northeastern Coast. The first month of the new year saw the familiar myriad of activity from Coast Guard units throughout New England. In addition to normal Coast Guard operations, New England holds claim to two of the nation’s largest commercial fishing ports and the only Liquefied Natural Gas facility located in a metropolitan area. This multitude of responsibilities means Coast Guard personnel in New England will be busy on any given day of the year.

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Ready Response With an M-240 machine gun at the ready, BM3 Carter Seigh of Station Boston keeps watch near the Distrigas LNG terminal in Everett, Mass., during a • security escort of the LNG tanker Berge Boston Jan. 11. The Everett facility is one of four Issue 2 LNG shore-side terminals in the continental United States. The Coast Guard takes many steps to ensure the safe and secure shipment of LNG, including a requirement that all • vessels over 300 gross tons, including LNG tankers, provide detailed information to the 2007 Coast Guard 96 hours before arriving in our ports. Upon arrival of the tankers, the Coast Nor’ Guard coordinates multi-agency security escorts that employ armed Coast Guard, state and city police vessels. Photo by PA2 Luke Pinneo, 1st Dist. easter 25 Nor’easter

u This is a Drill SN Juan Reyes uses a drill to open the battery compartment of a buoy to inspect and replace the batteries Jan. 11. Reyes, the leading seaman, has served aboard the Juniper since November 2004 and is qualified as a buoy rigger and crane operator. A civilian boater reported the buoy was not illuminated so the Juniper heaved the buoy aboard where it was inspected and serviced by the deck crew.

Photo by PA3 Etta Smith, 1st Dist. q Super Duty To ensure safety of the maritime community, BM2 Adam Murray looks out to inspect wave conditions at the Merrimack River entrance Jan. 8. The Merrimack River is a unique and dangerous waterway in that the shallow, narrow river entrance quickly can become a hazardous transit throughout the year with substantial surf and breaking wave conditions that have taken many lives throughout the years. The crew of Station Merrimack River spends hours each year training in the surf conditions. Photo by PA2 Luke Pinneo, 1st Dist. p Eyes in the Boat While training in breaking seas at the mouth of the Merrimack River, BMC Brent Zado carefully watches the stern of the 47-foot motor lifeboat he is commanding Jan. 8. Zado, an experienced Surfman, took command as the officer in charge of Station Merrimack River this summer. Coast Guard Surfmen are the service’s most highly trained boat handlers. These talented men and women are part of a long tradition

of lifesavers, dating back almost 200 years, www.uscg.mil/magazine responsible for some of the service’s greatest rescues.

Photo by PA2 Luke Pinneo, 1st Dist.

t Line of Hope SN Steven Hatch, Coast Guard Station Southwest Harbor, Maine,

throws a heaving line to a Coast Guard 25-foot Coast Guard response boat Jan. 10. The two vessels were conducting towing training in Southwest Harbor. The training was conducted as part of the crews’ ongoing strive to stay proficent in • their duties no matter the weather or time of Issue 2 day.

Photo by PA3 Lauren Downs, 1st Dist. • 2007

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t Overboard Oscar SN Rachel Collier, assigned to p Cold Play An exhilarating dip in Station Castle Hill, Newport, R.I., scans the water during a man the 45-degree water of Boston Harbor overboard drill as she shouts out the coordinates of the rescue provides MK3 Dan Brooks, left, and GM3 dummy to the coxswain Jan. 9. ‘Oscar,’ the rescue dummy, is chucked Michael Mulrooney, Maritime safety and into the water by the drill coordinator, and the crew then springs into security team 91110, Boston, action and pulls the dummy aboard the boat within three minutes in opportunities for cold-water survival order to pass the drill. training Jan. 10. The length of time a Photo by PA3 Etta Smith, 1st Dist. person can stay alive in cold water depends on the temperature of the water, q Making a Splash A 25-foot response boat from Coast the physical condition of the survivor and Guard Station Southwest Harbor, Maine, conducts manueverability the action taken by the survivor. training in Southwest Harbor Jan. 10. Photo by PA3 Lauren Downs, 1st Dist. Photo by PA2 Luke Pinneo, 1st Dist.

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p Water Watcher Prior to a training exercise with Station Provincetown, R.I., AET2 Ed Leibold surveys the water while awaiting the arrival of a 41-foot utility boat Jan. 10. The exercise • consists of rescue basket and rescue swimmer hoists from an HH-60 Issue 2 Jayhawk helicopter, out of Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., to a utility boat.

Photo by PA3 Etta Smith, 1st Dist. • 2007

29 u Hot Wheels A Chicamacomico Station crew stand in a lifeboat in 1914. Crews from this station took part in some of the most harrowing rescues in Coast Guard history. A Ghost days. “That’s if you include the discussions about this place at breakfast, dinner and all evening,” Charlet says. “Sometimes Linda has to ask me to talk about something else,” he says with a smile. While his employment here is relatively recent, Charlet’s experience with the site goes back much Station s further. He has been drawn here since he first stumbled across it more than 20 years ago, on ' vacation from his job as a history teacher in Durham, N.C. He was first attracted to the details of the station’s architecture, but as he researched the site, he was Photo courtesy Chicamacomico Historical Association Keeper moved by the gallantry of the surfmen that worked here on the edge of one of the most dangerous seas In 2006, BM1 Erik Watson, executive petty of- Auxiliarist keeps history alive in the world. The nearest station, the equally isolated ficer of Station Hatteras Inlet and a surfman, called Pea Island Station, was six miles away. Charlet to volunteer at the site. “I didn’t care if they Story by PA1 Larry Chambers, 5th dist. In 1987, Charlet returned to the Outer Banks, needed the grass cut or the fence painted, I just this time to interview for a principal position at a wanted to take part in keeping our service’s history he town of Rodanthe sits precariously on local school. With a wistful look in his eyes he recalls alive,” says Watson. the sand mound known as Hatteras, deep standing outside the gate, looking in at the ill-kept Watson met with Charlet, and “asked what it in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. To grounds. “Something just said ‘Respect this place’,” would take to start (the drills) back up again,” he the west is the quiet and remote Pamlico he says. “There was an ambience, a mystery here.” says. “His eyes lit up and we began a series of meet- T He was hooked. ings to come up with a plan.” Sound; to the east the Atlantic Ocean surges and crashes. The feverish, seething storms He began reading more about the U.S. Life Saving Watson solicited for volunteers from Station that thrive here have taken the lives of countless Service, and in the process gained a fascination with Hatteras Inlet, and Station Oregon Inlet put a crew sailors, and given rise to as many legends. This is the the exploits of that legacy service’s current torch- together as well. By the summer of 2006, they were Graveyard of the Atlantic. bearer -- the U.S. Coast Guard. His dark eyes shine performing the drill for tourists twice a week. Hidden among such modern beach frivolities as and an infectious grin spreads under his thick gray The demonstrations drew hundreds of tourists a water park and an ice cream shop, stand a small beard as he recounts the Aug. 16, 1918 rescue of the that summer, and Charlet is brainstorming ideas to group of buildings that have seen well more than a crew of the Mirlo, a British tanker torpedoed by the get more people to visit the site in 2007. “I feel like hundred years of those storms. The U.S. Life Saving Germans at the peak of the first World War. it’s my mission to teach Americans about the Life Service Chicamacomico Station holds its ground on The Chicamacomico crew, all but one named Saving Service,” he says. He feels that the heroics of seven acres and comprises eight buildings. The oldest Midgett, rescued 42 British sailors at great risk to the LSS have been unsung and hopes the Chicama- building on the site, the 1874 station, was the first themselves among burning wreckage and oil. Mem- comico site will help tell their story. life saving station to be built and manned in North bers of the Coast Guard crew were each awarded “This is a special place,” Charlet says before rat-

Gold Life-Saving Medals, and would later receive gold tling off facts that people should know about the Carolina. www.uscg.mil/magazine The wind-battered “modern” station building was medals for gallantry from Great Britain. The Coast station. “It’s the farthest point east in North Carolina, erected in the early 20th century and saw Coast Guard history Web site quotes the citation for the and only one of two sites in America with an 1874 Guard service from 1915 to 1954. The oak steps here awards: structure, and it is the most complete life saving are worn with deep grooves, marking a half century “In a heavy northeast sea that caused the lifeboat station in the United States,” he says. of boots pounding to the boathouse and the call to to be...tossed back upon the beach and the crew Standing on the steps of the cook house, he jokes rescue. washed away from the oars time after time. Un- about the never-ending repairs the site requires. “I’m The echoes of those who served here resonate with daunted they returned to their task. After succeed- a carpenter, a mechanic, a plumber on any given Coast Guard Auxiliarist James Charlet. He knows ing in getting their boat through the surf they were day,” he says. “But it’s not that different from what every inch of the grounds, from the 1911 cook house, compelled to steer into a blazing inferno where the those guys had to go through here, being so far from Coast Guard where a table lays set for morning chow, to the intri- flames leaped at least 500 feet high and were in seri- civilization. They had to do a little of everything too, cate wood-carvings that decorate the 1874 ous danger of being burned to death if not drowned. and go out on search and rescue missions.” station building. They picked up a number of the crew of the Mirlo and In the fall of 2006, Charlet took his love for the Charlet has been Chicamacomico’s site manager towed four of the ship’s boats ...” Coast Guard one step further and joined the Coast • for two years, employed by the private non-profit “It was the highest decorated rescue in U.S. Guard Auxiliary. He serves as Cape Hatteras Flotilla Issue 2 Chicamacomico Historical Association. His wife, history,” says Charlet. “It happened here.” 16-04’s public affairs officer and once again, finds Linda, serves as the operations manager. Charlet After moving to the Outer Banks in the 1990s, himself teaching the public about the Coast Guard.

Charlet took a part-time job as a site interpreter with Between his Auxiliary duties and management of • says it’s not uncommon for them to work 14-hour 2007 the National Park Service, which then operated the the Chicamacomico Life Saving Station, Charlet site. He participated in a beach apparatus drill re-en- admits he doesn’t have a lot of free time. The long t Old Man And The Sea Coast Guard actment team during that time, with a National Park hours and constant repairs don’t bother him much Auxiliarist James Charlet surveys the beach outside the Service volunteer crew using a breeches buoy and though. “This is my dream job,” he says as he peers 1874 Chicamacomico Life Saving Station. It is one of black-powder Lyle gun to reenact ship rescues on the out the window of the station toward the beach where only two such stations still standing. shore. The drills, though, were suspended in 2001. the sea rages and the wind howls. 31 Photo by PA1 Larry Chambers Photo by PA1 u Special Delivery Lois Bouton looks at a stack of letters on Dec. 4., this stack was written by one of the Coast Guard’s first pilots. Bouton has been writing letters to Coast Guard units since serving in Coast the woman’s reserve from 1943-1945 as a Coast Guard radioman.

Always Ready) during WWII in order to backfill the positions of the Coast Guard men who went over- seas to join in the war. Her career, which spanned the years between Guard 1943 and 1945, sent her on a jour- ney that she memorializes in her home and in the letters she writes to Coast Guard units throughout the country. Her dedication to the service has earned her the moniker as “The Coast Guard Lady.” During WWII, Bouton worked transferring to Radioman school at out a few days later, but I am as a first-grade teacher in a one- Atlantic City, N.J. sure everyone there thought Lady riting letters to room, Illinois schoolhouse. Wanting “I learned a lot there -- Morse the Coast Guard had some more than 300 more from life, she enlisted in the code and some other things,” Bou- inside information.” Coast Guard Coast Guard and was sent to Palm ton recalled. “I didn’t know what it With the war now over, Bouton units can be a Beach, Fla., for boot camp. all meant at the time, but I learned moved back to Illinois and contin- Portrait daunting task it.” ued with her career as a first-grade “After boot camp, I met with a for even the W classification officer,” Bouton said. As a Coast Guard radioman, teacher. most seasoned of writers, but for “She saw that I used to be a teach- Bouton got stationed in Bethany “Every now and then, I would this 87-year-old WWII veteran, it’s a er and offered me a position as a Beach, Del., where she performed have my students write cards to task she takes on every day. of SPAR boot camp instructor. So I stayed all the job functions her male the injured war veterans,” Bouton Sitting at a small table near the there and taught organization. counterpart had done before he said. entrance of her home, she peers When her tour as a boot camp went off to war. Afterward, she would take the through her oversized glasses. instructor was complete, Bouton “At the station, it was only me cards the children had written and Delicately and slowly, the recent served a short stint in San Francis- and another woman who ran the deliver them to a local veterans Lois Bouton events of her life pour onto a small equipment,” Bouton said. “We hospital along with a batch of co as a maintenance worker before Story and photos by PA1 NyxoLyno Cangemi, 8th Dist. piece of paper with a lighthouse would send weather information, homemade chocolate chip cookies. décor -- her favorite stationery.

track the movement of boats and On one such trip, a member www.uscg.mil/magazine Lighthouses of all shapes and sizes send coordinates to ships.” of the Coast Guard was at the surround her in her modest Arkan- “Toward the end of the war, hospital recuperating from some sas home while she meticulously we were all waiting to hear the injuries he sustained during the handwrites each letter. The light- official word that the war had war. He and Bouton became in- houses that surround her blend in ended,” Bouton said. “Our chief stant friends. From that moment among a sea of Coast Guard patches was sleeping one morning, and on, she would always visit the and hats hanging throughout her some of the people I worked with Coast Guard members first and home. were bored and decided it would be would forever be known as “The A child of the great depression, a good time to wake up our chief. Coast Guard Lady” -- a much Coast Guard Lois Bouton joined the Coast Guard One of them got a metal pipe and more personalized nickname from woman’s reserve, known as the started banging on a pan. Someone her previous “Chocolate Chip SPARS (a shortened version of the on the outside heard the racket Lady,” because of the cookies she

service’s credo, Semper Paratus, and they started making noise baked. • Issue 2 themselves, and the noise car- Bouton continued her exploits t Pen Pals Lois Bouton sits at ried on throughout the neighbor- at the veterans hospital for years,

hood. Soon, everyone in town was until the day came when she •

her table in her home on Dec. 3, 2006, 2007 and writes a letter to a Coast Guard honking their car horn. Everyone decided to retire to the warmer unit in New Orleans. Bouton is known thought the war was over! The climate of Rogers, Ark. official word eventually came “I still wanted to keep in touch throughout the Coast Guard as “The Coast Guard Lady,” and she writes letters and cards to more than 300 t Hello Sailors Official portrait of Lois Bouton at boot camp in Palm units a year. Beach, Fla., in 1943. 33 p A Coastie Christmas Card A Christmas card sent by a retired p Memories A group of women from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans Coast Guard telecommunications specialist thanks Lois Bouton for her dedica- look through a scrapbook made by Lois Bouton, during a visit to her home on tion in writing to Coast Guard units each year. Bouton, now 87 years old, served Dec. 4. The crew flew to Rogers in order to personally meet Bouton, who served in the Coast Guard women’s reserve from 1943-1945. in the Coast Guard women’s reserve as a radioman from 1943-1945. with the Coast Guard, and without book] and wrote to more units.” does any other day. She retrieves everywhere.” a veterans hospital to visit, I started Today, Bouton has three index her mail and returns to the inviting Bouton’s face, flush with joy, now writing my letters,” Bouton said. card boxes full of address that warmth of her home. She’s elated bears a smile that seems to stretch “I called up someone in the Coast she writes to throughout the as she opens the oversized enve- past her oversized spectacles and Guard and I asked them for the year, and she receives cards and lope and pulls out a card and small says, “It’s cards like this one that address of an isolated [navigation] letters from people throughout the photo from a retired Coast Guard make it all worth it.” unit in Alaska. I got the address and Coast Guard, including the telecommunications specialist. Authors note: To write Lois wrote them a letter. A few weeks commandant. In part, the card reads: Bouton, please send letters and later, I got a response back. It felt It’s early December 2006, and “Did you know that your cards cards to The Coast Guard Lady, so good that I wrote more letters. Bouton ventures out into the always seem to get put up first 1616 16th St., Rogers, AR, 72758. Somewhere along the way, I got cold, blustery Arkansas air and and taken down last? You are very Additionally, donations of stamps ahold of a [Coast Guard address approaches her mailbox like she much appreciated by all Coasties are always welcome.

u A Fond Farewell Lois www.uscg.mil/magazine Bouton smiles as she receives a farewell hug in her home from Lt. Taylor Carlisle on Dec. 5. Carlisle is one of five women who flew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans to meet with Bouton, better known

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Lois Bouton sits at her table and writes • a letter to a Coast Guard unit in New Issue 2 Orleans Dec. 3. Known throughout

the Coast Guard as “The Coast Guard • Lady,” she writes letters and cards 2007 to more than 300 servicemen and women a year.

35 Logbook t Rolling Thunder YN2 Lorraine Hollar, aka Tsunami Tsue, practices with her roller derby team in Virginia Beach, Va., Jan. 6. Hollar who works as a legal Guts, Grit and Gold assistance yeoman at Maintenence and Logistics Story by Lt. Cmdr. C.T. O’Neil, 7th Dist. Command Atlantic, in Norfolk, Va., is co-captain and the point-scoring jammer on the Dominion Derby Girls. hey travelled from Seattle, Providence, Cleveland and Haiti to form the Coast Guard through that pack with a target on your back, you T team that would, at the end of three, long have to think quickly, [and] you have to use your days and six, grueling events, emerge from the agility and speed, skating on one skate coming rugged backcountry of West Virginia as the top through the curves if need be to stay in bounds,” said competitor among 54 military teams at the 2006 Hollar. Wilderness Challenge. Over the years the popularity of roller derby has Lt. Cmdr. Dan Deptula, Coast Guard Liaison waxed and waned but safety of the skaters is always a Officer to the U.S. Embassy in Haiti; Lt. Kim Roller Coastie top priority. Andersen, MSST 91101 in Seattle; Lt. Brian “We want to be able to play the sport but we also Maggi, CEU Providence; and Lt. Terry have to remember that safety is a big part of it. We’ve Staderman, a controller from the Ninth District MLC Atlantic yeoman had a lot of injuries in the past due to the fact that command center, comprised “Team Duckie Fuzz we just didn’t know how brutal the sport was,” said and The Masters of Rubber” and overcame the on wild ride with local Hollar. challenges of a half-mile open river swim, 14-mile The team’s injuries run the gamut from nasty forced march, 8K mountain run, 14-mile mountain roller derby tea m bumps and bruises to fractured tailbones and a bike race, 35 rapids in a 13-mile, white-water raft shattered wrist. race and a “Duckie” (two-person inflatable canoe) Even though she loves scoring points, Hollar race through class I, II and III rapids to win the isn’t afraid to spend time in the pack as a blocker, event held Oct. 5-7 in Fayetteville, W.Va. Story and photo by PA2 Kip Wadlow, 5th Dist. delivering devastating blows to opponents unlucky “The last mile of the 14-mile run/hike was the enough to come within striking distance. toughest part of the competition,” said Deptula. “My favorite is when their skates come off the “Any team that can maintain composure, stay ground; that’s when I know I’ve done my job,” said together, endure the physical and mental pain of Hollar. the previous 52 miles of competition coming to a Some might ask why these women subject focus, is a winner and a true Wilderness Challenge themselves to such harsh punishment. The answers competitor.” he waits. Her body encased in protective why the Hollars’ eight-year-old daughter, Shiloh, is vary from skater to skater. armor, carefully honed through months often rinkside for mom’s contests. Whatever their reasons for competing, one thing of training in anticipation of this moment. “This is a great way for our family to spend time unites these women, the urge to help the less Muscles tense, coiled for attack. together,” said Mr. Hollar. “Shiloh can play with the fortunate. SExploding from a racer’s crouch, she sprints on her other kids when she’s not watching her mom skate During the first intermission, in their bout against skates’ toe stops, gaining speed before easing into the around the rink,” he said. the Diamond Demolitias, the Dominion Derby Girls smooth stride of a natural killer. Crashing over roller Back on the track Tsunami Tsue is busy navigating donated $1,000 dollars to the Help and Emergency derby opponents with the speed and explosive force through the chaos of a jam, a two-minute skating Response Shelter, an organization located in Hampton implied by her nickname, Tsunami Tsue, co-captain period in roller derby. Women answering to names Roads dedicated to helping victims of domestic www.uscg.mil/magazine of the Tidewater, Va., based Dominion Derby Girls, such as Becka Tha Wrecka, Jeri Brawlwell and Deatra violence. strikes again. Mental are blocking each other tooth and nail. Tsue The Dominion Derby Girls’ hometown crowd gave When she isn’t hurtling around the roller derby and an opponent, each wearing stars on their helmets them a standing ovation as they took a celebratory track, Tsue, better known to co-workers as YN2 to signify their position as jammers, forcefully bob and victory lap following their 177-113 victory over the Lorraine Hollar, spends her days working as a legal weave through the rolling catfight. Diamond Demolitias. assistant at the Coast Guard legal office in the Military A jammer is the point-scoring member on the team, The victory was Hollar’s first since she started Justice Branch of the Coast Guard’s Maintenance and and their task is simple. The more opponents they competing a year ago. She led her team in scoring

Logistics Command Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. pass while skating in bounds, the more points they with 52 points. Coast Guard Hollar gets mixed reactions from people when they score. The first jammer who makes her way through “I’m proud of you, Mom. You skated so fast and find out she competes in a roller derby league. the bumping, thumping, elbow-throwing mess on the everyone was cheering for you,” said Shiloh. “Some people laugh, some say that it’s not real. first lap of the jam takes the title of “lead jammer.” But as happy as she was with the victory, Hollar Some people that saw it back in the seventies are Hollar said her favorite position is lead jammer was sad that her husband, currently on deployment, • surprised that it’s back today and really want to know because she’s in charge of scoring the points and was not there to share the moment. Photo by Patricia Simard Issue 2 if it’s all it was cracked up to be,” said Hollar. making the crowd scream. “I cried last night. I wanted him to be here for it! Hollar became interested in roller derby after “My goal is to leave my opposing jammer in the He has always been so encouraging of my skating, p Wilderness warriors (left to right) watching an A&E Channel documentary titled Roller pack with my awesome blockers. A jammer is nothing so understanding of the time commitment and the •

Lt. Terry Staderman, Lt. Brian Maggi, Lt. Cmdr. Dan 2007 Girls and started searching for local teams on the without her blockers. I want her stuck there so I can demand that derby takes,” said Hollar. Deptula and Lt. Kim Andersen reach the halfway point Internet. come back around and lap her, which is called a Though the popularity of roller derby has waned It was Hollar’s husband, Jonathan, a GM3 assigned “grand slam.” As soon as I make it through the pack in the past, its fans, both old and new, continue to of the 2006 Wilderness Challenge 14-mile run/walk. to the CGC Legare, who actually found the Dominion and hear the fans screaming at the top of their lungs, seek out the new havens where the sport grows and “Team Duckie Fuzz and The Masters of Rubber” won Derby Girls. it makes me skate faster,” said Hollar. thrives; and as long as there is a group of fast skating, gold, beating 53 other military teams in the multi- The Hollars are a military family in the truest sense, “I also love it because when that second whistle hard hitting women, this roller Coastie will keep challenge event held Oct. 5-7 in Fayetteville, W.Va. with long deployments a part of every day life. That’s blows, you are under the gun. You are skating cruising for the kill. 37 Logbook t Tactical teaching CGC Midgett crewmember GM2 Neil Bacewicz shares weapons handling knowledge with a Dijiboutian navy officer during a training exercise Jan. 13. The Seattle-based high endurance cutter is conducting MSST Maritime Security Operations under Combined Task Force 150 near the t Upward Bound Two Middle East. The Midgett’s crew conducts members of a boarding team from exchanged ideas and helped instruct Maritime Safety and Security Team the Djibouti boarding team on safe Galveston are hoisted up into an weapons handling, handcuffing vertical HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter after techniques and general boarding conducting a vertical insertion practices. “The Coast Guard has insertion exercise March 1 off the Galveston, specialist experience and skills in Texas, coast. maritime security and we want to be able to share this with partner nations,” said Capt. E.L. Alexander, and full q Formidable commanding officer of the Midgett. Foursome Boarding team “It’s important to pass on this capability members from Maritime Safety and knowledge so regional countries are Security Team Galveston conduct able to maintain the security of their a security patrol along the decks of Photo by PA2 Mariana O’Leary, PacArea own territorial waters.” exercise the CGC Harry Claiborne. he helicopter crewman called simulated ammunitions. strongly opposed former Iraqi with coalition forces in Iraq. slides open the side door “There are about 50 places Iraqi general dictator Saddam Hussein and the With Iraq’s Al Faw peninsula T and attaches a 60-foot rope someone could hide inside a Arab Socialist Baath Party, made jutting south into the Northern to the hoist and lets it fall to the two-foot square area aboard a visits Miami his way to South Florida on a very Arabian Gulf and the sides of the ship’s deck about 40 feet below. ship,” said GMC Troy Shull, of overcast Jan. 24 afternoon. country bordered by the Shaat The boarding team members, MSST Galveston. “Securing a for lessons The Pentagon chose Miami for al Arab River to the West and the anxious about the uncertainties ship is a completely different than Zibari and his staff to visit and Khawar Abd Allah River to the that lie ahead, check their securing a building. It’s in many in maritime see just how the Coast Guard East, the Iraqi Coastal Defense weapons and start moving towards ways more complex.” conducts counter-terrorism, Force, the U.S. Coast Guard the open door. A vertical insertion As port and maritime counter-narcotics and illegal and coalition forces face the onto a ship sounds simple: grab security continue to be major security migration interdiction missions, complicated task of protecting the rope, look down and let points of emphasis in the war on and discussed how the Iraqi Iraq’s interests on the water. gravity do the rest. If it was only terror, teams capable of vertically

is face was chiseled and military could duplicate the Coast The ICDF also receives hands- that easy. inserting onto ships give the Coast www.uscg.mil/magazine stern with the look of Guard’s efforts. on training from the Coast Guard The Coast Guard Maritime Guard another tool. H determination as his Zibari was given a tour of and other coalition forces while Safety and Security Team For more than 216 years, piercing eyes stared hard into Sector Miami, ISC Miami and they work together to keep Iraq’s Galveston conducted a vertical sending boarding teams by small the distance. It was as if he could Station Miami Beach, as well as maritime interests like the port of insertion recertification and full boat has been a mainstay in the Coast Guard MSST’s are an still hear the explosions echoing an underway tour of the Port of Umm Qasr and the two main oil capability exercise onboard the Coast Guard. But as that mission integral part of Homeland halfway across the world in his Miami. During his visit he was terminals, Kwar al Amaya and Al CGC Harry Claiborne in Galveston, has gained more attention, a safer, Security’s layered strategy directed native country, which has been provided an extensive briefing on Basrah, safe. Texas, March 1. quicker, more efficient way of at protecting our ports and torn apart by sectarian violence. day-to-day Coast Guard missions, The visit as a whole was viewed “Training is vital with all the putting teams aboard a ship waterways. Whether by ground, Coast Guard Iraqi Gen. Babakir Baderakhan responsibilities and challenges. as a substantial success. “The mission types we do,” said Lt. became critical. Boarding a vessel sea or air, MSST Galveston is ready Zibari, the commanding This is not the first time the visiting senior Iraqi military Cmdr. Erik Leuenberger, from a small boat is dependent on and prepared to conduct multiple general and chief Coast Guard and Iraqi military delegation was extremely commanding officer of MSST many factors. Uncertainties in the missions such as law enforcement of staff Iraqi leaders have teamed up to work appreciative of their visit with the Galveston. “We try to make it as wave movements of the water make joint forces, a together and share operational Coast Guard here in Miami noting operations, underwater port real as we can for the crews, to give the actual transfer of personnel • security, canine explosive Issue 2 former Kurdish knowledge. Currently there are many parallels between our port them a better idea of what could extremely dangerous. Also, if a detection and general port and commander who six Coast Guard cutters deployed and border security missions really happen.” vessel refuses to slow down so a waterway security. and the maritime challenges they In addition to re-certifying the Coast Guard boat can pull along •

“Training exercises like this 2007 face now and in the future with team members, the unit exercised side, a boarding by small boat t Foreign Relations Iraqi Gen. Babakir provide team members with the their navy,” said Sector Miami their full capabilities by sweeping simply can’t be done. Baderakhan Zibari, commanding general and chief of staff commander Capt. Karl Schultz. skills needed to complete these and securing the ship once their “Boarding by a helicopter is a lot Iraqi joint forces, visited Sector Miami Jan. 24 to ever-changing, vital missions,” said boots safely hit the deck. The faster than by a small boat,” said witness first hand the Coast Guard’s maritime Story and photo by SNPA James Judge, Leuenberger. unit used modified weapons and Shull. “Plus, I’d rather be shooting security and safety expertise. 7th Dist. engaged in fire-fights with role down (from a helicopter) than up Story and photos by players firing paint-tipped bullets, from a boat.” PA1 Adam Eggers, PADET Houston 39 Trading Spaces Logbook Requiem for a Sailor WWII veteran, CGC Esanaba USCG, CBP strive for I know not what lies beyond or survivor O’Malley laid to rest in who’s care I’ll be — But it must end as it began — This The 21-gun salute produced homeport of Grand Haven, Mich. a shiver through the bodies O’Malley’s commitment to the enhanced effectiveness wedding with the Sea. of approximately 40 Coast Coast Guard and Escanaba crew Guardsmen, who along with family was evident when he did not allow through professional My course is laid, and friends, laid to rest Honorary health issues to prevent him from My sails unfurled, Chief Raymond F. O’Malley, the last attending the Escanaba memorial And my heart is light and free, remaining survivor of the sinking service in August 2006, his 64th exchange program So scatter me over the ocean of the Coast Guard-manned USS consecutive service. wide when the helm is hard Escanaba (WPG-77), March 13. Rear Adm. John E. Crowley, O’Malley, 86, died on March 8, Jr. visited O’Malley at his Chicago t. j.g. Ron Nakamoto of Sector Charleston, S.C., a-lee. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital home less than one week before never thought that he would be working for in Chicago, from complications due he died. The two exchanged ‘sea Customs and Border Protection when he joined My dust will mingle with each L to emphysema and lung cancer. stories’ and watched footage of the Coast Guard 12 years ago. Still in his Coast Guard curling wave and perhaps I’ll Seaman First Class O’Malley previous Coast Guard Festivals. uniform, Nakamoto has filled the shoes of Supervisory a merman be — And there and Boatswain’s Mate Second “I met with Ray last week in his Officer Dan Johnson of Customs and Border Protection will be singing and dancing Class Melvin A. Baldwin were lone home in Chicago and feel honored in the Port of Charleston since Jan. 8. survivors of the CGC Escanaba, to have met and known a man Nakamoto is participating in a professional exchange sea horses prancing, and a which blew up and sank within who deeply cared for the welfare of program that is part of an effort between the Coast harem of mermaids all three minutes in the North Atlantic others,” said Crowley. Guard and Customs and Border Protection to better trembling for me— when I am Ocean on June 13, 1943. A total At the conclusion of taps, understand each other’s organizations for future called to my home in the sea. of 103 Escanaba crewmen were Crowley presented an American collaborative efforts and to enhance maritime security. lost in the sinking. Baldwin died in flag to O’Malley’s wife, Dolly. Customs and Coast Guard officers at Coast Guard — Capt. Niels P. Thomsen 1964. “Today, we say farewell to a dear sector commands and Customs and Border Protection After the sinking, O’Malley friend. His service to his country field operations offices across the country are apt. Niels P. Thomsen, continued to support his fallen and his chapter in Coast Guard participating in the exchange program to work together author, adventurer, World shipmates by attending every history will never be forgotten,” on the similar mission areas of the two agencies. C War II hero and the Escanaba memorial service added Crowley. “It’s been an a real eye opener to see CBP’s namesake for the Coast Guard’s held during the Coast Guard capabilities and their approach to similar operations,” top innovation award died Jan. 2 Day Festival in the Escanaba’s Story by PAC Rob Lanier, 9th Dist. said Nakamoto on his last day of the exchange before at the age of 99. another Coast Guard officer takes his place. He was born in Denmark, the The program was implemented by the Commandant great-grandson of a count and of the Coast Guard, Adm. Thad Allen, and the p Exchanging Expertise Customs and Border spent his childhood in Fresno, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, W. Protection Supervisory Officer Dan Johnson of the Port Calif., where he dreamed of sailing Ralph Basham, in November 2006. Allen and Basham of Charleston and Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Ron Nakamoto of the world. At the age of 15, and were tasked to create the program in a memorandum Sector Charleston and are participating in the Coast Guard, with 13 dollars in his pocket, he from the Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael

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CBP professional exchange program. The program was www.uscg.mil/magazine Chertoff, describing joint Coast Guard and Customs created at the direction of the Secretary of Homeland up the Northwest Coast. initiatives in June 2006. Security and was implemented in a 90-day trial period There he found passage aboard In his first report to Sector Charleston and District The Forest Dream, sailing on a Coast Guard wide Jan. 1. The goal is for officers to Seven, Nakamoto cited numerous areas where 14-month journey from Puget Customs and the Coast Guard could improve their discover ways the Coast Guard and CBP can become Sound to the Island of Mauritius. inter-agency cooperation including the Coast Guard more effective in port security activities and create a nearly The five-masted Barkentine was and CBP radiation detections programs and container seamless working environment between the two agencies. detroyed in a gale leaving Thomsen inspections. as the only survivor.

“Our radiation detection programs are very similar. operations and effectiveness. During WWII, he joined the Coast Guard If we used the same equipment and could collaborate This professional exchange program is just one of Coast Guard and commanded a together on operations, we’d probably cover more area,” five activities on which the Coast Guard and CBP were 95-foot U.S. Navy patrol vessel in said Nakamoto. tasked to collaborate by Secretary Chertoff. The Coast Alaska. He also saw action in the The flow of information wasn’t one sided. Johnson Guard and CBP also were tasked to work together on South Pacific, taking part in the spent over a month in Nakamoto’s position at Sector vessel targeting, dual-agency vessel boarding teams, • invasion of Quadacanal and Issue 2 Charleston. information sharing and training. Bougainville. He later commanded “It’s been a very informative experience for me, and For each of these activities, the local Coast Guard the USS Menkar and was a I’ve learned a lot about the Coast Guard,” said Johnson, sectors and CBP offices must meet minimum goals as pioneer in what was then the • who’s been with CBP for about six years. outlined by the secretary, the commandant and the 2007 secret Loran program. A funeral detail salutes the casket of Chief Ray Johnson was also required to make a report to his commissioner. p Paying Respects Thomsen also developed the O’Malley during the playing of taps at his funeral in Chicago, March 13. superiors regarding his experiences. He cited many of The professional exchange program is in a 90-day chain stopper, which is used by the same issues Nakamoto did in his report. test period. The Coast Guard and CBP will evaluate the buoy tenders to secure and safely O’Malley was the last survivor of the 1943 sinking of the CGC Escanaba. He That’s the ultimate goal of the professional exchange effectiveness and the value of the program in March. release the chain and sinker for continued to show support of his fallen shipmates by attending 64 consecut- program — to have officers participating in the program swiveling anchors. tive Escanaba memorial services held during the Coast Guard Day festival in provide input that may improve Coast Guard and CBP Story and photo by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville Grand Haven, Mich. 41

Greetings From Critical Carrier Tee it up! CG golf tourney AMT2 James Guidry, Acushnet: Queen of the Fleet of Air Station Houston, accepting registrations offloads blood donations The 35th annual Coast Guard Invitational Golf The CGC Acushnet was sea, primarily patrolling the Gulf of at Brooke Army medical Tournament will be held July 4-7 at the commissioned Feb. 4, 1944, as Alaska and Bering Sea. Housing Center located on Fort Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. The tournament is the U.S. Navy Fleet Rescue and The Acushnet’s homeport is Barracks rooms are available Sam Houston, Texas, open to all active duty, reserve, retired, auxiliary Salvage Vessel USS Shackle. The located in Southeast Alaska on at ISC Ketchikan for E-3 and Feb. 17. The HH-65C and civilian employees, and their dependents and Shackle participated in rescue Revillagigedo Island within the below and unaccompanied crew participated in the guests. and salvage operations at Pearl Tongass National Forest. It is petty officers. Rent typically Harbor and Midway Island during collocated with ISC Ketchikan, costs between $500 and $900. Armed Forces Blood Entries must be received by April 15 to ensure World War II and participated in CGC Anthony Petit and CGC Program, which collects a spot. Entries received after April 15 will be accepted on a space available basis. the invasions of Iwo Jima and Naushon. There are medical Education critical blood supplies The tournament consists of one practice round Okinawa. facilities and an exchange at ISC University of Alaska Southeast. for the men and women followed by three days of individual stroke play. The Shackle was commissioned Ketchikan and is home to 7,000 fighting overseas. An The tournament package also includes three into the Coast Guard on Aug. fulltime residents and 2,000 Facilities HU-25 Falcon crew from night’s lodging; admission to a Fourth of July 23, 1946, as the Acushnet. The seasonal employees. ISC Ketchikan offers a dining Air Station Corpus Christi cookout, concert and fireworks show; and the Acushnet has been homeported in A billet aboard the Acushnet facility, all hands club, fitness and an Auxiliary aircrew awards banquet. Portland, Maine; Gulfport, Miss.; provides a great mix of work room and indoor basketball and racquetball courts. also flew donations. For more information, cost and entry form, see Eureka, Calif.; and most recently and recreation. In the summer, in Ketchikan, Alaska. The cutter’s there’s fishing, sailing, camping While transporting blood COMDTNOTE 1710, or contact one of the following tournament comittee members: Cmdr. crew consists of 11 officers and 68 and hiking. In the winter, there’s Weather is not normally a Coast Austin Gould at (202) 372-2469 or austin.j.gould@ enlisted members. ice skating, cross country skiing, A lush green landscape is Guard mission, it was uscg.mil; Dr. Mike Parnarouskis at (703) Nicknamed “The ‘A’ Team in snowmobiling, fishing and enjoyed 365 days a year fitting with the service’s 368-7049 or [email protected]; Capt. (ret.) Alaskan fisheries,” the Acushnet hunting. Annual events include thanks to an average of 162 goal of saving lives. “Our John Gentile at (757) 871-5930 or jgen5043@aol. replaced the CGC Storis as the the Salmon Derby, Blueberry Arts inches of precipitation, which mission is the save lives, com; and Capt. (ret.) Albert Sabol at (703) oldest cutter in the fleet. Its Festival and Winter Arts Festival. includes about 32 inches of it’s what we do,” said 777-4560 or [email protected]. primary missions are fisheries law If you are looking for a home snow. Winters can be chilly, Guidry. “And to be able enforcement, homeland security, that is surrounded with breath- as they are in most Northern search and rescue and marine taking sights and want to feel the States, but the year-round to help injured members environmental protection. It still accomplishment of operating in climate is temperate and of our military family, it’s uses an engine order telegraph to one of the world’s harshest marine temperatures can reach into special.” control engine speeds, and spends environments, then Acushnet may the 90’s during the summer. approximately 180 days per year at be the answer. Photo by PA1 Adam Eggers, PADET Houston Adam Eggers, PADET Photo by PA1

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p Overdue Recognition The crew of a historic North Pacific Ocean rescue operation conducted 28 years Coast Guard ago were honored in a ceremony at Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., Oct. 26. Lt. j.g. William Porter, Lt. j.g. Richard Holzhsu, ASM1 Barry Phillipy, ASM2 Kenneth Henry, AVT3 •

Raymond Demkowski, AE3 Anthony Miconi, and Seaman Issue 2 Daniel Malott received medals for their actions in an Oct. 26 - 27, 1978, rescue. The crew of the Coast Guard •

C-130H airplane, CG-1500, were cited for meritorious 2007 achievement in the search and rescue of the crew of a Fill in the blank spaces in the grid so that every vertical downed Navy P-3C airplane that ditched in the North column, every horizontal row and every 3 x 3 box contains Pacific Ocean. The crew took contol of the search and the letters C-O-A-S-T-G-U-R-D, without repeating any. The directed a Soviet fishing vessel to the area, where they solved puzzle can be found in the online version of Coast rescued 10 of the crew. Vice Adm. Vivien Crea, the Coast Guard Magazine at www.uscg.mil/magazine. Guard’s vice commandant, presented the awards. 43 otion sickness is a biological disorder that you in good physical and mental condition is induced by any situation where the and will make the time pass quicker. body is subject to motion. Even subtle • Do not skip meals. Eat regularly, but try to motion can induce motion sickness. avoid foods with strong odors, very high fat Everyone is susceptible to motion or grease content and products that impair Msickness, but it is not known why some people are more circulation (nicotine, caffeine and salt). prone to it than others; although fear and anxiety can • Sleep! It’s important. lower the threshold for experiencing symptoms. • Get plenty of fresh air. It promotes a feeling Motion sickness occurs when the brain receives of openness, and usually means you are in a conflicting signals from the areas of the body that detect place where you can see the horizon, or some motion. For example, aboard a moving ship, the inner other visual reference. ear may sense the motion of big waves, but the eyes don’t see any movement. This conflict typically results in motion sickness. As such, eyes are the most significant part of the body’s balance-sensing system. They ckne si ss C n Most o formal remedies are intended to op i reduce the nausea associated with motion in t sickness and should be taken an hour or two g w o before getting underway. Well-known remedies ith m such as Dramamine (Dimenhydrinate) are available without a prescription. Prescribed drugs such as act as a small range finder, allowing the body to judge Promethazine with Pseudoephedrine may also curb distance and relative motion. Body motion is also symptoms. Promethazine is an antihistamine that sensed by the inner ear, which is largely responsible for prevents motion sickness. The Pseudoephedrine maintaining balance. The brain relies on signals from counteracts the effects of drowsiness caused by the all of these sources and expects them to agree with each Promethazine. Meclizine is another antihistamine other. that has proven effective, but its possible side effects When these signals conflict with each other, the brain (increased heart rate, drowsiness, blurred vision) limit becomes confused. The primary conflict occurs when its use. the inner ear sends information to the brain which One of the most effective remedies is Ginger. The conflicts with the visual clues. In the case of the sailor natural anti-nausea remedy is available in most who is trying to lash the ratlin to the shroud, the inner grocery stores. You can chew on a small slice as you ear detects the motion of the ship rolling and pitching, would a piece of gum. but the eyes are telling the brain that there is no And it’s not always necessary to take a medication motion, resulting in symptoms such as a general sense before getting underway. If you don’t have a history of of not feeling well, nausea, vomiting, headache and motion sickness, or you’re not sure how you will react, sweating. it may be better to wait and see how you fare. The side effects of medications could be worse than a mild case

Minimizing symptoms while at sea of seasickness. www.uscg.mil/magazine

Generally, the best way to avoid motion sickness Sea legs is to stay healthy, focus on other things and try to avoid situations where you are subjected to maximum The term “getting your sea legs” refers to your motion and minimum outside visibility. Here are a few brain’s ability to compensate for the motion of the ship suggestions: as you walk about the deck. During your first few days at sea, you will find yourself staggering as you attempt • If possible, stay outside (or on the bridge) to walk a straight line while the ship rolls and pitches where you can maintain a visual reference under you. After some period of time, your brain Coast Guard with the horizon, clouds, other ships, or even will figure out what is happening, and it will begin a celestial object like the moon. to adjust. How successful your brain is in making • If you have to be below decks, try to stay as this adjustment varies with each individual, and may

close to the ship’s center of gravity as you depend upon the length of time at sea, the size of the • can. This is where you will experience the ship and the actual sea conditions. Issue 6 least amount of motion. And be prepared. When you dock and go ashore, • Stay mentally and physically healthy. you may experience your original symptoms of • Impairment of your health can increase your staggering and possibly even nausea, as your brain 2006 susceptibility to motion sickness. Don’t let readjusts to dry land. yourself become dehydrated. Dehydration can result from continued vomiting. Story by Reginald Griffin, who served as a petty officer in the United States Navy • Keep busy. Hard work will keep your mind in the early seventies as an optical repairman, serving on ships in the Second and off the subject of motion sickness, will keep Sixth Fleets from the East Coast, Caribbean and Mediterranean ports. 23 Don’t Look Down A boarding team member from Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team Galveston, Texas, conducts a vertical insertion from a Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter during an exercise off Galveston Mar. 1.

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