Out of the history books Coast Guard Snapshot from 1943 Printed on page 62 of the June 1943 edition of the Coast Guard Magazine. 10 Features Up In Smoke 10 STORY AND PHOTOS BY CWO SCOTT EPPERSON, PADET LOS ANGELES Searching For History 14 STORY AND PHOTOS BY PA3 ETTA SMITH, 1ST DIST. Honoring Our Heritage 18 STORY AND PHOTOS BY PA2 KIP WADLOW, 5TH DIST. The Haunting Of The Light 20 STORY BY PA3 THOMAS ATKINSON, 8TH DIST. Nightmare On Pier 17 24 STORY AND PHOTOS BY PA3 TARA MOLLE, 13TH DIST. The Gulfstream Pirate 28 24 STORY BY PA2 JUDY SILVERSTEIN, USCGR Fight Night 32 STORY AND PHOTOS BY PA2 LUKE PINNEO, 1ST DIST. The Road Taken 36 STORY BY PAC HELEN CHAPMAN , PA1 JACKIE ZETTLES, USCGR Sharing Jurisdiction 40 STORY BY PA2 SEAN EGGERT, 13TH DIST. 32 Departments Up Front 2 All Coast 6 Log Book 42 On The Cover Minots Ledge Light- house stands solidly against the endless on- slaught of the ocean’s fury in this photo illustration. Photo Illustration by PA1 David Mosley, Coast Guard Magazine Buddy Swim AST1 Samuel Ariola tows AST2 Brad Fitzpatrick during rescue swimmer training at Air Station Savannah, Ga., Oct. 25. They also swim 100 yards underwater in 25-yard stints with only 60 seconds in between each 25-yard stint. The swimmers also warm up with a 500-yard swim. Then swimmers spend several hours practicing escapes and releases and parachute disentanglement as part of lifesaving drills that are required every week. Photo by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville, Fla. Up Front www.uscg.mil/magazine Coast Guard • Issue 6 • 2007 3 Honoring the Past The Coast Guard Honor Guard stands in formation before the beginning of the Coast Guard’s Veterans Day wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetary. Photo by PA1 Adam Eggers, Coast Guard Magazine. Up Front www.uscg.mil/magazine Coast Guard • Issue 6 • 2007 5 p For the Children A crowd of villagers in the Dominican Republic flock to a Coast Guard helicopter. The helicopter crew made the difficult decision to land in order to check on the children at a local school. The village was surrounded on all sides on Nov. 3, by flood water caused by Tropical Storm Noel. Photo by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville, Fla. q Water Training Fishermen from several crab vessels in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, practice getting in and out of liferafts during survival training at the local pool hosted by the Coast Guard Sept. 12. The Marine Safety Detachment holds the training annually before the Bering Sea crab opener. Photo Courtesy of Marine Safety Detachment, Unalaska, Alaska Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen Commandant Vice Adm. Vivien Crea Vice Commandant Rear Adm. Mary Landry Director of Governmental & Public Affairs Capt. James McPherson Chief, Public Affairs Patricia Miller Deputy Chief, Public Affairs CWO4 Lionel Bryant Chief, Imagery Branch PAC Kimberly Smith Editor PA1 David Mosley Senior Assistant Editor PA1 Adam Eggers PA2 Mike Lutz PA2 Joe Patton Assistant Editors Subscriptions: Call (202) 512- 1800 or write to Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. To subscribe online, follow the link at our web site at www.uscg.mil/ magazine. Submissions: We need your stories, photographs, comments and suggestions. Contact the mag- azine staff concerning ongoing and future products and submissions to Coast Guard magazine. Submit your stories to: U.S. Coast Guard (CG-09221), 2100 2nd Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20593- 0001, or e-mail them to cgmag@ www.uscg.mil/magazine uscg.mil. For more guidelines, visit the magazine Web site and click on “submissions” or call the editor at (202) 372-4612. Coast Guard, COMDT PUB P5720.2, is produced for members of the U.S. Coast Guard. Editorial content is unofficial and not authority for action. Views Coast Guard and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Homeland Security or the Coast Guard. Stories may be reprinted except Associated Press wire stories • Issue 6 and articles reprinted from other publications. • p Bay Bridge Spill A Coast Guard 25-foot small boat patrols in the Port of 2007 Oakland, Calif., near the container ship Cosco Busan Nov. 10. The vessel struck the protec- tive fendering system of the Bay Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Nov. 7 and spilled ap- proximately 58,000 gallons of oil into the bay. Photo by PA2 Prentice Danner, PADET Los Angeles 7 p Smoky A Coast Guard H-60J helicopter takes off from Air Station San Diego Tuesday morning as smoke from wildfires obscures the sunrise. Coast Guard personnel and aircraft have been participating in wildfire response operations throughout Southern California. Photo by BM3 Paul Ramos, Sector San Diego q One Small Step Members of the Navy’s q Dream Flight Lt. j.g. Adam Young, a pilot at parachute team, the Leap Frogs, jump from a Coast Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., helps Teddy McGowan put Guard C-130 over University of Southern California’s on a flight helmet with night vision goggles Oct. 2 during a stadium near Los Angeles Oct. 3. The practice jumps tour of the air station. McGowan, 7, suffers from a severe were in preparation for a jump during the opening stomach disorder and was traveling to Pittsburgh, Pa., for ceremonies at the USC football game on Oct. 6. The an organ transplant evaluation. The first grader expressed gameday jump was from the same C-130. a desire to ride in a Coast Guard helicopter after seeing several fly over his home in Forestdale, Mass., so his par- Photo by CWO2 Scott Epperson, PADET Los Angeles ents worked with air station personnel to fulfill his wish. Photo by PA2 Lauren Downs, 1st Dist. All Coast p Watchful Eye Boarding team members from the CGC Boutwell stand watch over the fishing vessel Lu Rong Yu 1961 after suspecting them of illegal fishing Sept. 27. The Boutwell escorted the vessel along with an ad- ditional fishing vessel, Zhe Dai Yuan Yu 829, to the Tsugaru Straits to transfer custody over to the Chinese Fisheries Law Enforcement Command vessel. The Boutwell works with the Chinese FLEC as part of the North Pacific Coast Guard Forum. This six-nation forum was developed to increase international maritime safety and security on the Northern Pacific Ocean and to combat illegal unregulated and unreported fishing. Photo by PA3 Jonathan Cilley, 11th Dist. q On the Rocks Coast Guard rescue crews from Station Portsmouth, Va., ferry passengers off the cruise ship Spirit of Nantucket to shore after the ship ran aground in the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway approximately eight miles north of the Virginia-North Carolina state line Nov. 8. The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the grounding. www.uscg.mil/magazine www.uscg.mil/magazine Photo by PA2 Kip Wadlow, 5th Dist. Coast Guard • Issue 6 • 2007 9 Up in Smoke Story and photos by CWO Scott Epperson, PADet Los Angeles t’s a chilly Friday morning but on the owner, who has just in October and a thin veil returned for the first time since of smoke and the smell of he was evacuated. The wildfire ash and char still linger had swept through the quiet little Iin the air. Three men wearing lakeside community of Dos Dios, bright yellow fire-fighting gear, Calif., just outside of Escondido. carrying axes, rakes and extra The fire left a path of destruction water stand in the ruins of a that had no real boundaries or house – burned to the ground. defined direction; it went wherever Their focus, however, isn’t on the dry Santa Ana winds blew it – a the devastation around them, scene repeated all across Southern t OS1 offering a hand and comfort to This is Not a Drill returning residents. Overall, Justin Urbano from Coast Guard the team was amazed to see the Training Center Petaluma, Calif., neighborhood in the daylight. puts out a small fire in Dos Dios, The last time they were there, the Calif., while on patrol Oct. 26. He area was only lit by the glow of was in Southern California with the fires that were burning almost Fire Captain Kyle Kortie and Fire out of control. Engineer Brett Callahan as part of “I didn’t even pick up that this a firefighting strike force from the was the one that we hit earlier,” Petaluma area assiting with efforts to said Urbano while standing near fight the recent wildfires that swept the remains of one of the houses through the San Diego area. they were in on Oct. 23. As the firefighters talked with were going to drive down and the owner, one of them mentioned assist with the efforts near San that they had just extinguished Diego, much like many other a still-burning stack of comic fire-fighters and volunteers from books in the rubble, “(They were) all over the state. my kids,” the owner chuckled, “We arrived onscene Tuesday “oh jeez,” he added as his expres- afternoon,” said Urbano. “We did sion changed. After offering to interior attack on two or three help and letting the owner know houses that that the team were engulfed would be in the www.uscg.mil/magazine … saved five, We did interior area all day, maybe six, attack on two or three Kortie stayed structures that while the owner had active fires “houses that were looked through really close to engulfed… saved five, what was left the buildings.” maybe six, structures of his posses- According to sions. The rest Urbano, they that had active fires Story and photos by CWO Scott Epperson, PADet Los Angeles of the team Coast Guard also patrolled really close to the continued on the fire areas, buildings.