Women in the Coast Guard: Standing the watch in heels since 1915
What happens when you take a Coast Guard asset or office and fill it full of women? No, this is not a joke. Give up? The answer is… the same job would get done as if it were [...]
Operation Taconite
Written by LTJG Stephanie Young, U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs When we last checked in with Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay they were working day and night to finish up the largest buoy retrieval operation in the nation. There is [...]
Ninth District “BRAVO ZULU” to the USCGC Penobscot Bay
>We would like to extend a BRAVO ZULU to the United States Coast Guard cutter Penobscot Bay. The Bayonne, N.J.-based, 140-foot ice breaking cutter departed Cleveland, and the Great Lakes, on April 4, 2010, after a more than 90-day temporary [...]
Photo from the field: For those who thought icebreaking was easy
> Today’s photo comes courtesy of Chief Warrant Officer Jon Wiedemann, Engineering Officer on the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, which was performing a direct icebreaking assist for the Laker Herbert C. Jackson along the St. Clair River Jan. 21. [...]
Guest post: A stroll down memory lane with the Queen of the Lakes
>Take a stroll down memory lane with Coast Guard Reservist John Masson, a PA1 assigned to the Ninth District Public Affairs Office, on his recent visit to the decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, now moored in Mackinaw City, Mich. Here [...]
From the field: A sure sign of spring
>I know, I know, winter’s over for most of the Great Lakes. However, parts of Lake Superior remain in winter’s grasp long after spring has sprung else where in the Ninth Coast Guard District. That’s why today’s post comes from [...]
Breaking the Ice; Success Through Teamwork and Partnerships
>We are just a couple of days away from calling “game over” for the 2008/2009 Great Lakes Icebreaking Season. As a newcomer to the Great Lakes, I can honestly say I was taken aback by the magnitude of the teamwork, [...]
A Sector Commander’s Perspective
>Captain Fred Midgette is the Commander of Sector Detroit in the U.S. Coast Guard’s Ninth District. He was responsible for coordinating the service’s response to the Lake Erie Ice Rescue February 7, 2009. The following is his perspective on the [...]
Helping Our Neighbors Control Flooding
>It’s been a busy week here in the Ninth District. We barely had a chance to catch our collective breath after rescuing 134 ice fishermen, when the communities living along many of the rivers here began calling the U.S. Army [...]
