https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQmllwTKtqU In the Coast Guard, they say, ‘You gotta go out.’ But they don’t say you gotta come back in. Fifty years ago, two oil tankers were ripped apart by an terrifying blizzard off the coast of Massachusetts, but most of the men on board survived thanks to the crew of a 36″ Coast Guard life boat. This winter Disney will release “The Finest Hours,” based on the 1952 rescue of the SS Fort Mercer and SS Pendleton by Coasties from Lifeboat Station Chatham on the south coast of Cape Cod. The movie stars Chris Pine as Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class…
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The Navy tried to get all sailors the information they needed to vote, even designating the week of Sept. 27 as Absentee Voting Week, but there was at least one thing the service couldn’t predict — Hurricane Sandy. The Navy is making sure that those sailors helping with storm cleanup on the amphibious assault ship Wasp get a chance to vote, according to CNN’s Security Clearance blog. When Sandy approached, the Navy ordered Wasp to stay out at sea to avoid it. After the storm passed, the ship was sent to the New York/New Jersey area to provide assistance, if…
With the “global force for good” in mind, some 400 military service members, many of them trained and skilled in the medical and health professions, boarded the hospital ship Mercy at San Diego Naval Base, Calif, on the morning of May 1 for a mission to Southeast Asia. Joining them that day were scores of civilians, volunteers of all ages from universities, nongovernmental organizations and charities who embarked on the ship for “Pacific Partnership 2012,” the seventh iteration of the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s humanitarian and civic action program that grew from the widespread disaster of the 2004 tsunami that struck…
With the outer bands of Hurricane Irene beginning to lash the southeastern coast of North Carolina, Coast Guard fliers and search-and-rescue personnel flew out of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., this morning, and we’re in hurry-up-and-wait mode at the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, adjacent to Charlotte International Airport. Another C-130 crew is staged in Raleigh. The crews and SAR personnel moved to get their aircraft out of harm’s way. But as the storm passes to the northeast, they’ll be the first to fly over the damaged areas — anywhere from South Carolina to Martha’s Vineyard, officials…
