Flotilla 16-6
Division 16 - Chattanooga, TN
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U.S.S. NEW YORK Entrance into New York City
NEW YORK – As the United States Navy’s newest naval assault vessel the USS New York sailed into New York Harbor on Monday, November 2, 2009 members of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary were there to meet her, on the water as part of her safety patrol.
The USS New York was forged with 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the 9/11 World Trade
Center Disaster Site. The 684 foot long ship is capable of speeds in excess of 22 knots to
land a surge of 800 US Marines. It carries two CH53E Super Stallion, Two MV-22 Osprey tilt
rotor aircraft, four CH-46 Sea Knight, Four AH-1 Sea Cobra or UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.
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Path to Mayday
In less than a second an electric current containing a three-second message traveled approximately two miles, across the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest.
The signal began its journey from a marine radio tuned to emergency channel-16 in Peacock Spit, an ocean bar
just off the southernmost tip of Washington State, to the Megler Mountain Tower, an antenna equipped with the
Coast Guard's Rescue 21 technology.
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Putting the SEARCH in Search and Rescue
Let's go back in time, to the mid-1800s, on the sparsely populated east coast. You are wearing
the uniform of a surfman, assigned to a U.S. Life Saving Service station in New Jersey.
It's about 2 a.m. and winter is loosening its grip on the mid-Atlantic state. There are
no casinos or water parks lining the beach; no houses or condos. It's you and the elements;
the crashing of the surf, a cold constant wind, and the loud beating of rain against your face.
It's dark; the moon is hidden by storm clouds, no head lights of passing cars, no light-lined
boardwalks. You have about five miles of coastline to patrol. At the end of that five mile walk
you will meet your buddy from the next station down the beach. It's a nasty night; you talk
about the weather and being somewhere warmer, somewhere drier.
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Don't Drink While Boating
Washington - In a landmark study on drinking and boating, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) researchers collaborated with colleagues from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health to conduct the first population-based, case-control study of the role of alcohol in recreational boating deaths.
Drinking evidence of those who died in North Carolina and Maryland in recreational boating incidents between 1989 and 1998
were combined with interview data and Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) measurements obtained a probability sample of 3,943 boaters
on lakes, rivers and coastal bays and sounds during three summers in North Carolina and Maryland.
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USCG Auxiliary Interpreter Corps Deploys:
Aboard USCGC Dallas In Support Of Humanitarian Aid Mission to Georgia.
No, the Coast Guard was not bringing care packages to Atlanta. Rest easy, all is well in the Peach State.
United States Coast Guard Auxiliarist Alicja Power of
Traverse City, Mich., deployed to the Black Sea aboard the US Coast Guard
Cutter Dallas to help deliver the more than 76,000 pounds of humanitarian supplies,
including soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, baby wipes, toilet paper, medicine and other
necessities provided to save lives and alleviate human suffering in
the Republic of Georgia, this past September.
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Reaching for a better tomorrow:
One youngster at a time
By Wayne Spivak*
National Press Corps
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
How many times have you either heard or said “Look at the next generation, boy we’re
in trouble”. And if you’re like many Americans, you sit back, shake your head, go ‘tsk-tsk’
and go on living your life so you can grouse once again. But there are a group of adults who have taken an extra second
or two, paused and said to themselves, “There has to be a way to provide structure and enhancement to these kids’
lives.” In business we’d call it value added education. For these adults, they call it the Naval
Sea Cadet Corps.
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