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July 27, 2007

The News This Week
It was kind of a light news week (as compared to other weeks). But we still have a number of diverse stories in this week's edition of the Coast Guard Channel News. We have reports on the new Maritime Force Protection Unit (MFPU) Kings Bay, Georgia and the formation of the Operations Deployable Group (including some great video). We also have some interesting rescue stories out of New Jersey and Northern California, an overturned landing craft in Alaska, and a fun report about a Coast Guard team competing in the Milk Cartons Derby in Seattle. This week's news is available now in our news player.

News From Iraq
Last week's package from Iraq was the most clicked link in the newsletter by far AND overall the most watched video on the site. We haven't added a new story from Iraq this week but, based on the popularity, we're definitely going to make this a regular feature. In the meantime, if you have any specific questions you'd like to ask the Coasties stationed over there, send them our way and we'll try to stick them into our soon-to-be-scheduled interviews. If you didn't get a chance to watch last week's package, stop by our new section "Coast Guard in Iraq".

From Air to Sea
This first question combines aviation and surface-based trivia into a single question. "Who was the first Coast Guard aviator to command a 378-foot cutter and what cutter was it?"

And our second question: "What was the LAST 95-foot patrol boat in service in the Coast Guard?" Hint, it's NOT the one shown in the picture.

The answers to both of these questions are waiting for you in our trivia section. If you have some fun Coast Guard trivia, send it in. We're always on the look-out for new tidbits to share with our Viewers.

Air Aux on the Case
Among the new pictures that have gone live this week is this one submitted by John Samuelson, the co-pilot of a USCG Air Aux aircraft. The Air Aux crew heard the call of a cutter in a stern chase with a Go-Fast in the Florida Straits. They responded to the position and circled the Go-Fast until surface-based assets could intercept it.

This second picture offers up a different look at Coasties in action. Here we can see the Coast Guard Fire Department, TRACEN Cape May, enjoying a bit of down time. Wiffle Ball, eh? Batter up!

Other photos added since our last issue include some great pix from the Red, White and Blues air show and a shot of the start of this year's Chincoteague Pony Swim...an event we're very familiar with. If you want to see larger versions of these photos or the other pictures we've added this past week, then all you have to do is to take an e-stroll through our photos area.

Speaking of Ponies

The Coast Guard Ensures Safety at the Pony Swim

If you get the opportunity to be stationed at Chincoteague, Virginia, it's likely that one of your assignments during your tour will be the Chincoteague Pony Swim. It's a pretty sweet deal. In return for ensuring the safety of the ponies and the public, you get a front-row seat at the annual event that attracts about 25,000 people. It's truly the best seat in the house as the ponies swim across the Channel. In this classic webisode, we take you behind-the-scenes of the Pony Swim and impart some history about the event in the process. Don't miss this new feature only available on the Coast Guard Channel.

The Coast Guard Attic

The Historian's Office

While all the Coasties out there are making history, someone has to be in charge of documenting it for generations to come. And that job falls firmly on the shoulders of the Coast Guard Historian's Office. This informative new feature now showing on the Channel takes viewers inside the Historian's Office to meet Dr. Robert Browning, the man in charge, and from there to New London, Connecticut to get a tour of the Coast Guard Museum on the campus of the Academy. It's a little change of pace from our normal offerings of dramatic rescues or interesting law enforcement cases so we hope you enjoy. Watch this very special video here.

Coast Guard Channel in Grand Haven

Grand Haven/Coast Guard Festival Page Live

If you want to see what's going on at the Coast Guard Festival, all you have to do is to click through to the Coast Guard Channel's Grand Haven/Coast Guard Festival page. We'll try our best to keep the news flowing all week long with quick features from the festival. You can see our schedule and we'll add in other news as the week progresses. To get a sneak peak, cruise on over to the page now. And if you're going to be in Grand Haven be sure and stop by.

Coming Soon to CGC

"Academy Feature"

"Get to Know Station Channel Islands"

"Firefighting School Webisode 3"

"Cutters on Patrol - The Sherman"

New "Best of CGTV"

Feature Length Coast Guard DVDs. On Sale in Our Store. See Special Pricing Below.

Two Bears...Better Than One

We got word this week that our friend Dick Levesque has finished his latest painting, "Always With You, Always There - The Two Bears". It's a depiction of the two Coast Guard Cutter Bears. The first perhaps the most famous cutter in Coast Guard history, acquired by the Revenue Cutter Service in 1885. One of her most noted adventures was the rescue of the Greely Expedition. The second Bear is the current cutter. She's 270 feet long and the first of the "Famous Class" Cutters. She was commissioned on February 4th, 1983 and is homeported in Portsmouth, Virginia. If you'd like to learn more about Dick's latest creation or to see some of his other art, visit his website here.

"With a little help from their friends"

It's a story of a partnership that works. The Cutter Osprey and the Coast Guard Auxiliary working together to keep Washington waterways safe. The Auxiliary extends the reach of the Coast Guard on so many levels and this story is a great way to learn how. Read PA2 Shawn Eggert's feature article by clicking here.

The Storis and the Northwest Passage

The Coast Guard will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic discovery of the Northwest Passage September 6th, 2007, and a new book, written by Dick Juge, has just been releaesd that celebrates this monumental event. It is in tribute to the recently decommissioned STORIS, her crew, plus the Cutters BRAMBLE and SPAR. Over 50 people participated in the book's development, many former shipmates on this historic voyage. You can learn more about the book and its author by clicking here. Dick has listed other links on this site that will be of interest to former Storis crewmen. For example, there's a link to the Cutters Around the Continent Reunion set for the 4th through the 6th of September. You can also visit OUR Reunions area, under News & Events, to link to this and other reunions.

Save NOW On Coast Guard Channel DVDs

In conjunction with Coast Guard Day, we're offering $2 off all of our most popular titles during the Coast Guard Festival Week. So starting July 29th and proceeding through August 4th, you can take $2 off Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, Dangerous Rescues, Survivors, High Seas Cops, Helicopters to the Rescue, and On the Wings of Eagle. All you have to do is to enter promo code CGDAY07TWO at check out.

WIN a DVD Player!

As a reminder, we're giving away a portable DVD player to anyone that is on the Coast Guard Channel mailing list by the end of day Coast Guard Day (that's August 4th!). So if you know anyone that's not on our list, you should forward this email by clicking the Forward link below and they, too, will have a chance to win the DVD player. If you're already on the list (and you probably are if you received this newsletter from the Channel), then you are already entered. The DVD player is the Grand Prize and then there are also Coast Guard Channel videos and posters that we're giving away, too. So spread the word.

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	July 27, 2007 The News This Week It was kind of a light news week (as compared to other weeks). But we still have a number of diverse stories in this week's edition of the Coast Guard Channel News. We have reports on the new Maritime Force Protection Unit (MFPU) Kings Bay, Georgia and the formation of the Operations Deployable Group (including some great video). We also have some interesting rescue stories out of New Jersey and Northern California, an overturned landing craft in Alaska, and a fun report about a Coast Guard team competing in the Milk Cartons Derby in Seattle. This week's news is available now in our news player. News From Iraq Last week's package from Iraq was the most clicked link in the newsletter by far AND overall the most watched video on the site. We haven't added a new story from Iraq this week but, based on the popularity, we're definitely going to make this a regular feature. In the meantime, if you have any specific questions you'd like to ask the Coasties stationed over there, send them our way and we'll try to stick them into our soon-to-be-scheduled interviews. If you didn't get a chance to watch last week's package, stop by our new section "Coast Guard in Iraq". From Air to Sea This first question combines aviation and surface-based trivia into a single question. "Who was the first Coast Guard aviator to command a 378-foot cutter and what cutter was it?" And our second question: "What was the LAST 95-foot patrol boat in service in the Coast Guard?" Hint, it's NOT the one shown in the picture. The answers to both of these questions are waiting for you in our trivia section. If you have some fun Coast Guard trivia, send it in. We're always on the look-out for new tidbits to share with our Viewers. Air Aux on the Case Among the new pictures that have gone live this week is this one submitted by John Samuelson, the co-pilot of a USCG Air Aux aircraft. The Air Aux crew heard the call of a cutter in a stern chase with a Go-Fast in the Florida Straits. They responded to the position and circled the Go-Fast until surface-based assets could intercept it. This second picture offers up a different look at Coasties in action. Here we can see the Coast Guard Fire Department, TRACEN Cape May, enjoying a bit of down time. Wiffle Ball, eh? Batter up! Other photos added since our last issue include some great pix from the Red, White and Blues air show and a shot of the start of this year's Chincoteague Pony Swim...an event we're very familiar with. If you want to see larger versions of these photos or the other pictures we've added this past week, then all you have to do is to take an e-stroll through our photos area. Speaking of Ponies The Coast Guard Ensures Safety at the Pony Swim If you get the opportunity to be stationed at Chincoteague, Virginia, it's likely that one of your assignments during your tour will be the Chincoteague Pony Swim. It's a pretty sweet deal. In return for ensuring the safety of the ponies and the public, you get a front-row seat at the annual event that attracts about 25,000 people. It's truly the best seat in the house as the ponies swim across the Channel. In this classic webisode, we take you behind-the-scenes of the Pony Swim and impart some history about the event in the process. Don't miss this new feature only available on the Coast Guard Channel. The Coast Guard Attic The Historian's Office While all the Coasties out there are making history, someone has to be in charge of documenting it for generations to come. And that job falls firmly on the shoulders of the Coast Guard Historian's Office. This informative new feature now showing on the Channel takes viewers inside the Historian's Office to meet Dr. Robert Browning, the man in charge, and from there to New London, Connecticut to get a tour of the Coast Guard Museum on the campus of the Academy. It's a little change of pace from our normal offerings of dramatic rescues or interesting law enforcement cases so we hope you enjoy. Watch this very special video here. Coast Guard Channel in Grand Haven Grand Haven/Coast Guard Festival Page Live If you want to see what's going on at the Coast Guard Festival, all you have to do is to click through to the Coast Guard Channel's Grand Haven/Coast Guard Festival page. We'll try our best to keep the news flowing all week long with quick features from the festival. You can see our schedule and we'll add in other news as the week progresses. To get a sneak peak, cruise on over to the page now. And if you're going to be in Grand Haven be sure and stop by.	Coming Soon to CGC More News Stories and a New Newscast "Academy Feature" "Get to Know Station Channel Islands" "Firefighting School Webisode 3" "Cutters on Patrol - The Sherman" New "Best of CGTV" Feature Length Coast Guard DVDs. On Sale in Our Store. See Special Pricing Below. Sinbad: Dog of the Seven Seas Coast Guard Channel Collection, Vol. 1 Coast Guard: Rescue Swimmers On the Wings of Eagle Coast Guard: Helicopters to the Rescue Coast Guard: Dangerous Rescues Coast Guard: Survivors High Seas Cops Two Bears...Better Than One We got word this week that our friend Dick Levesque has finished his latest painting, "Always With You, Always There - The Two Bears". It's a depiction of the two Coast Guard Cutter Bears. The first perhaps the most famous cutter in Coast Guard history, acquired by the Revenue Cutter Service in 1885. One of her most noted adventures was the rescue of the Greely Expedition. The second Bear is the current cutter. She's 270 feet long and the first of the "Famous Class" Cutters. She was commissioned on February 4th, 1983 and is homeported in Portsmouth, Virginia. If you'd like to learn more about Dick's latest creation or to see some of his other art, visit his website here. "With a little help from their friends" It's a story of a partnership that works. The Cutter Osprey and the Coast Guard Auxiliary working together to keep Washington waterways safe. The Auxiliary extends the reach of the Coast Guard on so many levels and this story is a great way to learn how. Read PA2 Shawn Eggert's feature article by clicking here. The Storis and the Northwest Passage The Coast Guard will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic discovery of the Northwest Passage September 6th, 2007, and a new book, written by Dick Juge, has just been releaesd that celebrates this monumental event. It is in tribute to the recently decommissioned STORIS, her crew, plus the Cutters BRAMBLE and SPAR. Over 50 people participated in the book's development, many former shipmates on this historic voyage. You can learn more about the book and its author by clicking here. Dick has listed other links on this site that will be of interest to former Storis crewmen. For example, there's a link to the Cutters Around the Continent Reunion set for the 4th through the 6th of September. You can also visit OUR Reunions area, under News & Events, to link to this and other reunions. Save NOW On Coast Guard Channel DVDs In conjunction with Coast Guard Day, we're offering $2 off all of our most popular titles during the Coast Guard Festival Week. So starting July 29th and proceeding through August 4th, you can take $2 off Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, Dangerous Rescues, Survivors, High Seas Cops, Helicopters to the Rescue, and On the Wings of Eagle. All you have to do is to enter promo code CGDAY07TWO at check out. WIN a DVD Player! As a reminder, we're giving away a portable DVD player to anyone that is on the Coast Guard Channel mailing list by the end of day Coast Guard Day (that's August 4th!). So if you know anyone that's not on our list, you should forward this email by clicking the Forward link below and they, too, will have a chance to win the DVD player. If you're already on the list (and you probably are if you received this newsletter from the Channel), then you are already entered. The DVD player is the Grand Prize and then there are also Coast Guard Channel videos and posters that we're giving away, too. So spread the word.

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