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Aviation Electrician "A" School 1979. I left the CGC Modoc to attend this school in Elizabeth City, N. Carolina |
Aviation ASE "C" School 1980 |
On coming duty crew Pre-flight inspection on HH-65A |
Polar Star, Acapulco Mexico. Crew had to use a shuttle boat to get to shore. |
Vessel Inspector Duties As a Warrant Officer in Honolulu, HI |
Rescue swimmer ready for forward flight |
ASM1 Robinson re-enlisting in Cullaby Lake, located near Astoria, Oregon. |
Basket is in the door, recovering the Rescue Swimmer/Survivor. |
Night Ops, Rescue Swimmer approaching survivor |
Crew would get a ride over to Scott Base to party with New Zealanders. Man could they party. |
Sea of Icebergs, Antartica |
McMurdo Base, Antartica. Active Volcano Mt. Erebus in the background. I've heard that a USCG HH-52 Helicopter crash landed up there somewhere and is still there. |
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Updated: November 30, 2005
Rescue Swimmer School Pensacola, FL. Notice the Helo tower in the back left. |
Big wind, 50 mph +, Puerto Arenas, Chile. Bottom tip of South America. Next stop, Antartica. |
Wet Drills, CGAS Houston, Galveston Bay, Texas circa 1982 |
Cuban Ops, 1980. Landed on the USS Saipan for supplies. Mostly candly I believe. |
Cold weather survival School, Gunnison Colorado. First night in tents, 2nd night in two man snow caves, 3rd night solo. Somewhere around 11,000 feet. My feet got cold! |
USCGC Glacier, her last voyage. Second helo has to circle around the ship until the first helo lands and gets her blades folded then put into the "barn". Notice the aircrew working on the first helo. |
My job was to use this motorized dolly to move helos around on the flight deck. I loved it. |
Initiation for crossing the equator. This is called the "birth canal". Each person is blind folded and has to crawl through this tube. It is full of rotten garbage. After awhile I think it gets full of vomit. |
Rescue Swimmer Operations off the coast of Oregon, somehwere near Seaside. |
We landed on this iceberg. I jumped out and ran up front for this picture. |
HH-65A Helicopter. I was in the 41's boat house observing when I took these pictures. |
