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November 4, 2004
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In this week's newsletter:
Report: Coast Guard helicopters urgently need new engines
By LESLIE MILLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of engine malfunctions on the Coast Guard's workhorse helicopter has increased dramatically as efforts to install safer motors have fallen behind schedule, a government watchdog group said Monday.
http://www4.fosters.com/november_2004/11.02.04/news/ap_nh1102d.asp
Antiterror unit comes to
Anchorage
COAST GUARD: Nine such forces protect ports nationwide.
By PETER PORCO
Anchorage Daily News
(Published: November 1, 2004)
Alaska has become home to a new rapid-response military force, one that can deploy at the drop of a hat via air, sea or ground.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/5735008p-5668654c.html
''Terrorists'' Attack Cal
Maritime's Training Ship
GOLDEN BEAR: Role-playing Exercise
Helps Determine Readiness for Terrorist Attack
VALLEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2004--
Lessons Learned Will Assist with Maritime Security Curriculum Development
Ever wonder what would happen if a maritime terrorist event were to happen on a Bay Area waterway? Would local, state, and federal agencies and our maritime industrial community be ready? A first-of-its-kind Bay Area event conducted today at The California Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime), a campus of The California State University, will help shed light on the answers.
Coast Guard takes part in
terror drill
(New London-WTNH, Oct. 28, 2004 Updated 3:35 PM) _
Protecting our seaports from terror. Coast Guard cadets are training to stop a
terrorist attack against New London Harbor.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=2491696&nav=3YeXSUiO
Helicopter Crews Depart for
Antarctica
U. S. Coast Guard
November 01, 2004
MOBILE, Ala. - Coast Guard helicopter crews departed
Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile Monday to Antarctica in support of
Operation Deep Freeze 2005.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,uscg1_110104.00.html?ESRC=coastguard.nl
Air, marine operations merged
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Air and marine operations assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were transferred yesterday to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a decision hailed by rank-and-file agents in both agencies as a positive step in the war on terrorism and the battle against illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041102-092241-4822r.htm
Planning Group Weighs Value of 'Maritime NORAD'
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2004 -- A U.S.-Canadian planning group is studying whether the two countries should adopt a maritime equivalent of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the binational command that has watched the skies for aerospace threats since 1958.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/n11032004_2004110304.html
Charting New Seas:
Navy- Coast Guard Cooperation
By Charles S. Hamilton II and Patrick M. Stillman
The Navy and Coast Guard have a tradition of collaboration that goes back more than two centuries to their origins as sea services.
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1135.pdf
Advocacy group: Spill could
kill fish, wildlife
Tank containing sodium hydroxide collapsed in New Jersey on
Saturday, dumping liquid into the Arthur Kill
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
There's no evidence of it yet, but a local ocean advocacy group is concerned that a caustic liquid spill into the Arthur Kill on Saturday may cause fish kills and damage to other organisms that live in the body of water separating Staten Island and New Jersey.
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1099406899149380.xml
Cleanup Ends - Public Beaches
Re-Opened
U. S. Coast Guard
November 01, 2004
SEATTLE - Cleanup from the Dalco Passage oil spill has
ended, and beaches at King County parks on southern Vashon and Maury islands
are open to the public again.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,uscg2_110104.00.html?ESRC=coastguard.nl
Cuban migrant rescued from
inner tube off Keys
sun-sentinel.com
Posted November 1 2004, 3:16 PM EST
KEY WEST - A 40-year-old Cuban migrant was found drifting alone on an inner
tube in the Atlantic about two miles off the Ocean Reef Club in the Florida
Keys, the Coast Guard said.
New Coast Guard boat enhances
patrol, search & rescue efforts
A new U.S. Coast Guard boat making its debut on Newport's Yaquina Bay this month is turning a few heads.
http://www.newportnewstimes.com/articles/2004/10/29/news/news03.txt
Manitowoc Co. a finalist to
win Coast Guard deal
$400 million contract calls for utility
fleet
By RICK
BARRETT
rbarrett@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Nov. 1, 2004
Manitowoc Co. is one of three finalists for a $400 million contract to build high-speed "response boats" for the U.S. Coast Guard, crafts that will replace a fleet of utility boats that have been in service for more than 25 years.
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/nov04/271549.asp
Coast Guard rescues four
scallopers off Nantucket
By Jules Crittenden
Thursday, November 4, 2004
No more than five minutes passed between the time the first wave swamped the fishing boat Canadian Mist and the scalloper sank off Nantucket yesterday.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=52464
Coast Guard rescues 3
capsized kayakers
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2004
http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/110304/loc_20041103035.shtml
Coast Guard boat crew rescues father and son
November 03, 2004
Wednesday
Ketchikan, Alaska - A Coast Guard boat crew rescued a father and son from cold Alaskan waters Tuesday afternoon after their sail boat capsized near Ketchikan.
http://www.sitnews.us/1104news/110304/110304_uscg.html
Coast Guard rescues deer hunter lost in Upper Peninsula
October 30, 2004, 2:47 PM
ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) -- A deer hunter who became disoriented in a dense forest was rescued Saturday afternoon by the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter nearly a day after he was reported missing.
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw106556_20041030.htm
Coast Guard to inspect fleet before crab season
The Times-Standard
As the Dungeness crab season nears, the U.S. Coast Guard will begin checking safety gear on fishing boats in Humboldt and Del Norte counties.
http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2504716,00.html
Mentally disturbed man
'claims' NYC island
New York, NY, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- An apparently mentally disturbed man was being
evaluated Wednesday at a New York hospital for trying to take over an island.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041103-010809-4689r.htm
Ex-Coast Guard station won't be shelter
Published in the Asbury Park Press 11/02/04
By
BRIAN PRINCE
MANAHAWKIN BUREAU
http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1098987,00.html
Honoring Coast Guard In
Vietnam
By ROBERT A. HAMILTON
Day Staff Writer, Navy/Defense/Electric Boat
Published on 10/24/2004
New
London - Retired Coast Guard Adm. James M. Loy, who commanded an 82-foot
patrol boat in Vietnam, said he found it ironic to see the lines at the
service's recruiting stations in the 1960s and '70s filled with young people
who saw the Coast Guard as a way to get out of the war.
In fact, the Coast Guard sent about 8,000 of its people to Vietnam, a
greater percentage of the total force than any other service, Loy said during
a ceremony Saturday in Robert Crown Park at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to
unveil a monument to Coast Guard service in that war. About 100 Coast
Guard veterans and family members, whipped by a frigid mid-morning wind,
crowded around the monument, a project undertaken by the Coast Guard Combat
Veterans Association.
"The Coast Guard went to Vietnam because we were needed, we had training
and experience that was important," said retired Coast Guard Capt. Alex
Larzelere, whose book, "The Coast Guard at War: Vietnam, 1965-1975," is
considered the definitive reference on the subject.
Once the ships, aircraft and personnel started to arrive in the country,
the other services recognized the Coast Guard had more than just training and
experience, he said.
"We had a will and a determination to do the job no matter what it took,"
Larzelere said. But it had to overcome some initial resistance: one Navy
admiral said the Coast Guard's small cutters would probably be mission-capable
one day out of five, and there was no place to berth the ships and house the
crews.
The Coast Guard representative at that meeting promised the ships would be
available two days out of every three, and the crews would live on their
cutters. Two divisions of ships reported in 1965, and within weeks the other
services were clamoring for a third, Larzelere said.
He related the experiences of cutters that interdicted smugglers bringing
ammunition to the enemy, sailed up the rivers and canals to provide fire
support to troops taking fire, and provided security and safety consulting
services in the ports where war materiel was shipped.
The patrol boats were only the beginning of Coast Guard involvement in the
war, he said. As the service's reputation spread, it was asked to provide even
more support.
When Air Force bombers were having trouble finding their targets because
of navigation problems, a Coast Guard electrical engineer volunteered that the
service's Loran C navigation system could be of inestimable help.
The defense secretary approved funding for the project in December 1965,
and within eight months the Coast Guard had shipped the equipment, cleared
four remote sites in Vietnam and Thailand, set up buildings and towers and put
the system into service, Larzelere said.
Two years after the 82-footers arrived, the Coast Guard was asked for more
help, and it sent five high-endurance cutters to Vietnam, which fired more
than 77,000 rounds from their five-inch guns to support troops that came under
fire inland, he said.
When the Air Force realized its search-and-rescue capabilities were
lacking, it called on the Coast Guard to help, Larzelere said. The service
responded by sending its best pilots, including Lt. Jack C. Ritticher, 34, of
Barberton, Ohio, who in two months was nominated for the Air Force Cross and
three Distinguished Flying Crosses before he was killed June 9, 1968.
"Considering the amount of action we saw, and the devastating attack on
the Point Welcome, it's amazing we suffered as few casualties as we did,"
Larzelere said.
The Point Welcome is one of the most tragic events in Coast Guard history.
The 82-foot ship came under "friendly fire" attack before dawn on Aug. 11,
1966, as it patrolled near the mouth of the Cua Viet River.
Retired Capt. Ross Bell, who attended the dedication ceremony on Saturday,
was on the bridge of the Point Welcome that morning and saw the Air Force jets
coming in.
"I had sent Chief 'Mack' (Gunners Mate 2nd Class Mark D. McKenney) down to
wake the captain, went to general quarters, got off a radio call, and
everything just exploded," Bell said. "We had quite a crew. They saved that
vessel, despite everything."
Chief Boatswain's Mate Richard Patterson received the Bronze Star with a
combat "V" for his actions to save the Point Welcome.
But the encounter came at horrible cost. The commanding officer of Point
Welcome, Lt. j.g. David C. Brostom, 25, of Los Altos, Calif., was killed,
along with engineman 2nd Class Jerry Phillips, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas,
on Aug. 11, 1966.
Bell spent weeks in a Marine Corps tent hospital and a Navy hospital ship
before he could be transferred to a hospital in San Francisco, where he spent
five months recovering from his wounds. McKenney; Fireman Apprentice Houston
J. Davidson; journalist Timothy J. Page; and a Vietnamese liaison officer, Lt.
j.g. Do Viet Vien, were all wounded.
Listed on the monument are the names of the seven Coast Guardsmen who died
in the war: Ritticher; Brostom; Phillips; Fireman Heriberto S. Hernandez, 20,
of San Antonio, Texas, killed Dec. 5, 1968; Chief Engineman Morris S. Beeson,
37, of Pitkins, La., killed March 22, 1969; Engineman 1st Class Michael H.
Painter, 26, of Moscow, Idaho, killed Aug. 8, 1969; and Lt. j.g. Michael W.
Kirkpatrick, 25, of Gainesville, Fla., killed Aug. 9, 1969.
Rear Adm. Robert C. Olsen, superintendent of the Academy, welcomed the
addition of the monument, and noted that all young officers-in-training and
paraded through the park as part of their indoctrination, because it is filled
with Coast Guard history.
"They need to know what our country has done, and what its people have
died for," Olsen said. "They need to see it, they need to feel it, and they
need to understand it."
The monument also lists the ships, aircraft squadrons, and other units
that served during the war. Bell said it's fitting that it should be located
at the Academy, because all of the officers and a large percentage of its
enlisted people pass through here at some point in their careers.
"The traditions we have, the history we have, we're proud of," Bell said.
"And the people who join and serve should know that."
Debate goes on over
thrillcraft effect on whales
A July ruling limited a seasonal ban along a coastline on Maui
LAHAINA » As Hawaii enters the whale migration season, the state law that banned thrillcraft from Dec. 15 through May 15 along a Maui coastline where whales gather has been severely wounded.
http://starbulletin.com/2004/10/31/news/story7.html
Author to talk about book at
senior center
By Carole LaMond/ STAFF WRITER
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Even as
a boy Mike Walling was drawn to the sea as a sailor and to the stories of the
men who fought in the great ocean battles of World War II.
http://www2.townonline.com/sudbury/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=118191
Operation BoatSmart October Newsletter
http://www.cgauxinternational.org/newsletters/obs/obs-10-04.pdf
Coast Guard on Television
Nov 6, at 4 p.m., the History Channel Modern
Marvels show will air "Engineering Disasters 9", where a portion of the
program Features M/V Brightfield's 1996 allision with the New Orleans
Riverwalk and includes interview assistance from MSO New Orleans.
Nov 8, at 10 p.m., CBS will air a "CSI: Miami"
episode that features CGC dolphin, CGC Halibut, Air Station Miami, Station Los
Angeles-Long Beach, and crew from Air Station Los Angeles. Our Portrayal
includes a Coast Guard Operations Center scene and an at-Sea take down scene
as we assist the Miami Dade Police Dept.
Nov 11, at 9 p.m., the History Channel will air
a two-hour Coast Guard Special Feature: "History of the U.S. Coast Guard:
Lifesavers to the World." This comprehensive feature includes
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http://www.uscg.mil/deepwater/pdf/Oct04DeepwaterNewsletter.pdf
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