Archive image: Royal Australian Air Force, Canadian Air Force, and U.S. Air Force aviators participate in a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape water survival training course at Barnegat Light, N.J., June 6, 2023.
SERE personnel from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst partnered with Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., to provide aircrew with realistic scenarios where flight crews must work together in order to survive a potential aircraft crash in the ocean.
Exercises like these help build interoperability and standardized training capabilities throughout different service branches and our allied partners.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Sergio Avalos.
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Coast Guard is coordinating with local, state, and federal agencies in response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore today, Tuesday March 26, 2024, at morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard watchstanders received a report into the Coast Guard Sector Maryland — National Capital Region command center at 1:27 a.m. reporting a 948-foot Singapore-flagged containership collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Additionally, it was reported that the bridge collapsed and there were reports of persons in the water.
Coast Guard response boat crews from Coast Guard Stations Curtis Bay and Annapolis are searching for missing persons in the waters around of the Baltimore Bridge and have crews deployed to the incident for active search and rescue operations.
On Baltimore bridge area a Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City MH-65E Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew, Coast Guard investigators and pollution responders are also involved in the SAR operations.
An Urgent Marine Information Broadcast (UMIB) is issued regarding the incident and there has been a 2000-yard safety zone issued for the surrounding waters. Mariners are urged to avoid the area.
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