Units

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  July 01, 2005
  July 1, 2005, 12 p.m. AST - Buoy work on the Anthony Petite - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo (739.30 KB)
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The deck crew of the Coast Guard cutter Anthony Petite secure a buoy to the deck of the cutter after operations. The 175-foot cutter's crew is responsible for servicing and maintaining aids to navigation in Southeast Alaska. The Ketchikan based cutter is one of fourteen 175-foot coastal class buoy tenders currently in service. It is the only one of its class in Alaska. (Official Coast Guard photo.)
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  July 01, 2005
  July 1, 2005, 12 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter Anthony Petite underway - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 2.38 MB)
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard cutter Anthony Petite is one of fourteen 175-foot coastal class buoy tenders in service. The Anthony Petite is stationed in Ketchikan. (Official Coast Guard photo)
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  June 17, 2005
  June 17, 2005, 10:00 a.m. - Coast Guard C-130 landing - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 1.75 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard C-130 aircraft crew based out of Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak practices take-offs and landings at the Kodiak Airport here. The C-130 is the Coast Guard’s primary long range search aircraft. Each year C-130 air crews here conduct thousands of missions ranging from living marine resource patrols to long range search and rescue missions. There are four C-130 aircraft stationed in Kodiak. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Paul Roszkowski)
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  June 17, 2005
  June 17, 2005, 10:00 a.m. - Coast Guard C-130 taking off - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 1.65 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard C-130 aircraft crew based out of Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak practices take-offs and landings at the Kodiak Airport here. The C-130 is the Coast Guard’s primary long range search aircraft. Each year C-130 air crews here conduct thousands of missions ranging from living marine resource patrols to long range search and rescue missions. There are four C-130 aircraft stationed in Kodiak. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Paul Roszkowski)
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  June 14, 2005
  June 14, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter Hickory, crew visits Kodiak - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 2.17 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska- The Coast Guard cutter Hickory’s crew from Homer moors next to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fisheries survey vessel, the Oscar Dyson, here for a short stay. The Oscar Dyson is one of the most technologically advanced fisheries survey vessels in the world. Hickory's crew retrieved a NOAA buoy set to collect weather information in a remote area. Hickory’s crew and the crew of its sister ship, Cutter SPAR, from Kodiak, share the duties of search and rescue, homeland security, maintaining aids to navigation and maritime law enforcement in Cook Inlet, along the Kenai Peninsula and Gulf of Alaska. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. McLaughlin)
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  June 10, 2005
  June 10, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter SPAR crew, buoy keepers- 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 2.04 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska - Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard cutter SPAR haul a 12,000 pound, unlighted ocean buoy with the help of the ship’s deck crane. The buoy, once on board, will be cleaned and then repaired if needed before retuning to the sea. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. McLaughlin)
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  June 10, 2005
  June 10, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter SPAR crew, buoy keepers - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 1.64 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska- Seaman Apprentice Grant M. Terry (blue helmet) and Seaman James A. Bowell scrub the buoy clean of barnacles and other debris before it is put back in the water. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. McLaughlin)
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  June 10, 2005
  June 10, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter SPAR crew, buoy keepers - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 1.48 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska- Seaman Ben A. Greenlee hoses the buoy off with freshwater as the last step in the cleaning process. Crew members working the deck aboard the SPAR routinely have to contend with Alaska’s frequent rainy, windy and cold weather while at sea. (Official U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. McLaughlin)
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  June 10, 2005
  June 10, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter SPAR crew, buoy keepers - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 1.70 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska - The deck crew aboard the Coast Guard cutter SPAR lower the buoy back into its place. SPAR's crew is responsible for maintaining short and long range ATON (aids-to-navigation) such as buoys. SPAR's crew is multi-mission capable, conducting maritime law enforcement, homeland security, and defense operations, as well as providing search and rescue assistance. (Official U.S. Coast Guard photo by Christopher D. McLaughlin)
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  June 10, 2005
  June 10, 2005, 3 p.m. AST - Coast Guard cutter SPAR crew, buoy keepers - 17th District Office of Public Affairs photo ( 3.28 MB)
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  KODIAK, Alaska - Petty officer 2nd Class Jeffrey A. Hope, an operations department member aboard the SPAR, boards the SPAR 2, a small boat lowered from the main ship. The SPAR 2, piloted by Petty Officer 1st Class John A. Stephenson, along with its crew, heads out to change lights, perform maintenance on solar panels, day boards and electric operations on the lighting system on several buoys before calling it a day. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Christopher D. Mclaughlin)