HONOLULU, March 11, 2024 – A crew from the French Air Force (l’Armée de l’Air) arrived at Air Station Barbers Point on March 4 for a week-long subject matter exchange with Coast Guard rescue aircrews. The seven-member team, comprised of three pilots and four crew members, is stationed in French Polynesia, Tahiti, and flies a Leer másFrench Air Force crew trains at Coast Guard AirSta Barbers Point[…]
ALAMEDA, California — The Coast Guard coordinated efforts to medevac an injured mariner from Costa Rica. Air National Guard Pararescuemen from 129th Rescue Wing and the Costa Rican Coast Guard performed the medical evacuation approximately 1200 nautical miles west of Costa Rica. Tuesday evening. At approximately 9:10 a.m., Friday, watchstanders at the Coast Guard 11th District Leer másCoast Guard coordinates medevac of mariner from Costa Rica[…]
BOSTON — The Coast Guard is searching for five persons from the missing submarine offshore Cape Cod. The Canadian research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with their submarine during a dive, approximately 900 nautical miles east of Cape Cod, Sunday morning. A Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, HC-130 Hercules response aircraft aircrew, Leer másCoast Guard press briefing for missing submarine 900 nm E of Cape Cod[…]
By Airman 1st Class Devlin Bishop, 355th Wing Public Affairs DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — In the United States Air Force, when one hears, “That others may live,” they immediately think of rescue. The USAF 79th Rescue Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB fulfills that mission, and more, by supporting and enacting rescue at a moment’s Leer másGetting to know the USAF 79th Rescue Squadron[…]
HONOLULU — The world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Island, is erupting for the first time since 1984. The eruption began in Moku’āweoweo, the summit caldera of Mauna Loa, on Sunday at approximately 11:30 p.m. HST, according to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory; though lava is flowing down one side of the volcano, there Leer másCoast Guard aircrews conduct fly-over Hawaii volcano Mauna Loa[…]
SANTA RITA, Guam — Coast Guard and partner agencies have rescue six mariners (five adults and one child) aboard a missing vessel near Etal Atoll in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, Tuesday. At 6:00 a.m., Saturday, Coast Guard Forces Micronesia | Sector Guam watchstanders received a report of an overdue 19-foot vessel with six Leer másCoast Guard, partners rescue missing mariners near Chuuk State[…]
Story by Maj. Chelsea Aspelund, 176th Wing JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guard crews, from the 176th Wing, provided medevac Oct. 26 for a patient experiencing a medical emergency in Stony River, a village more than 200 nautical miles north of Bethel on the Kuskokwim River. A medical provider at a Bethel Leer másAlaska Air National Guard HH-60G medevac person Kuskokwim River[…]
HONOLULU — USCG, Navy, and the merchant vessel Linnix rescue three overdue mariners in the vicinity of Christmas Island, Kiribati, Friday. The crew of the merchant vessel Linnix rescued the mariners, last seen Aug. 6, and transported them back to Christmas Island. “Through coordination with our Navy partners, we were able to save members of Leer másUSCG, Navy and vessel Linnix crew rescue 3 mariners 307 nm off Kiribati[…]
SANTA RITA, Guam — A USCG Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules aircrew conducted two repatriation flights of Federated States of Micronesia citizens and delivering U.S. and foreign diplomats to Pohnpei International Airport on Thursday and Friday. The flights were the first permitted by the Federated States of Micronesia to allow passengers to deplane since Leer másUSCG AirSta Barbers Point conducts repatriation flights to Micronesia[…]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard, US Navy and good Samaritan vessels combined efforts to medevac a tanker ship crewmember to Bermuda on Friday. Rescue Coordination Center Bermuda notified watchstanders at the Coast Guard’s Fifth District command center in Portsmouth of an ailing crewmember aboard the tanker ship Antonis on Wednesday at approximately 1 p.m. Leer másCoast Guard and Navy combine efforts to medevac ill mariner to Bermuda[…]
