The United States Coast Guard (USCG) constructs residential housing throughout the country using a basic template that must meet the minimum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver criteria or better for the units. In Kodiak, Alaska, USCG is procuring between 24 and 100 ...
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returned to homeport at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska, on Thursday, following an extended seven-month dry dock maintenance period in Seattle. While in dry dock, the crew and contractors successfully completed more than $6 million worth of repairs...
The Coast Guard is upgrading its Alaska fleet with six of the newer fast response cutters to be homeported in the state, along with two additional patrol boats. The Alaska plan is part of the larger Coast Guard fleet recapitalization, which includes replacing the workhorse 110’x21’x6.5’ Is...
The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Mellon (WHEC 717) moors at U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak's fuel pier in Kodiak, Alaska, July 10, 2020. Commissioned in 1968, the Mellon stopped in Kodiak during their final patrol before the cutter's scheduled August 20, 2020, decommissioning. (U.S....
Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew rescues bear attack survivor near Nome, Alaska Pictured is a remote mining camp near Nome, Alaska, where a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew rescued the survivor of a bear attack, on July 16, 2021.While flying from Kotzebue to Nome, the aircrew ob...
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz, Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, and Capt. Riley Gatewood, hold a pennant during the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) decommissioning ceremony in Kodiak, Alaska, on April 24, 2021. In 1998, the cutter interdicted over 11.5 tons of cocaine on...
Class Lawrence Allan Wambold for meritorious achievement in aerial flight as aircrewman of Coast Guard HH-52A 1423 helicopter engaged in the rescue of four crewmen from the fishing vessel WANDA which was adrift and in danger of breaking up on the rocks in the waters of Ugak Bay, Alaska. 19...
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Murphy, an avionics electrical technician from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, checks to make sure stranded hunter Richard Burns is coherent prior to embarking him into the MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter near King Cove, May 27, 2010. Burns was stran...
The two helicopters stationed there typically are used for search and rescue efforts in Kodiak. "That, for me, is opportunity cost," said Adm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard. "It means you do less somewhere else in order to supplement activity in the Arctic." The Obama ...
In 2021, for the very first time in MSTF history, aircrews from the Alaska Army National Guard Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 641st Aviation Regiment, flew Coast Guard members from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to hub communities, including King Salmon and Nome. From these hub communities, ...