![]() This summer, an MH-60T Jayhawk medium range recovery helicopter forward deployed to Kotzebue, Alaska, as part of interagency Operation Arctic Shield to provide greater maritime domain awareness in the far north.Ĭoast Guard aviation remains at the heart of its lifesaving mission.Īviation also remains at the heart of the Coast Guard lifesaving mission. and Dutch vessels seized the smuggler suspects, and Ocean Sentry, HC-130 Hercules, and Dolphin aircraft helped find evidence jettisoned into the Caribbean. In June, the crew of an HC-144A Ocean Sentry, a medium range surveillance aircraft (MRSA) used their sensors to spot a go-fast smuggling boat south of Puerto Rico. ![]() Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Coast Guard aviation is essential to the layered security measures meant to deter, detect, interdict, and neutralize maritime threats before they reach American shores. The Coast Guard is the maritime arm of the U.S. ![]() It demonstrates how we apply these updated capabilities to defeat the threats in the offshore environment – and I would underscore the offshore environment is our area of greatest risk.” The level of interoperability was simply not available with our legacy assets. Currier subsequently told Congress, “This is exactly how the system should work, and we’re very gratified to see this. It also illustrated the seamless integration of air and sea assets for homeland defense. ![]() The arrest ultimately made by the crew of a long range interceptor cutterboat netted 1,250 pounds of cocaine and a half-dozen smuggling suspects. The national security cutter (NSC) launched a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft that maintained streaming video surveillance on the target and followed up with an armed MH-65D Dolphin multi-mission cutter helicopter. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) cued the CGC Bertholf to a target several hundred miles off Costa Rica in the eastern Pacific. In May 2013, a P-3 Orion patrol aircraft of U.S. ![]()
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