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Coast Guard Picture of the Week

Arctic Hoist – People’s Choice #2, a photo by U.S. Coast Guard on Flickr. GULF OF ALASKA – Coast Guard Air Station Sitka conducts hoist training operations with Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa (WPB 1335) off the coast of Sitka, Alaska.

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Eagle arrives in New York

NEW YORK – A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., circles above the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle while the crew anchors in New York Harbor, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. The Eagle is in New York

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Celebrating 221 years of service

On August 4, 1790, President George Washington put pen to paper and created the Revenue Cutter Service. That service of “a few armed vessels, judiciously stationed at the entrances of our ports, might at a small expense be made useful

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Coast Guard Picture of the Week

Ice Liberty On July 13, 2011, crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy dipped their feet in a melt pond during Ice Liberty — a few hours during the ICESCAPE mission when scientists and crew could take a break

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Coast Guard Picture of the Week

U.S. COAST GUARD’S FIRST AVIATION GROUP: The Class of 1916 became the first Coast Guard Aviators. They are shown at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., with their crewmen at the time of graduation. Of the 18 pictured, nine remained

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