Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Bairde, an aviation survival technician at Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, sits in an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter while flying over Kodiak, Alaska, June 17, 2026. Bairde served as a rescue swimmer aboard the helicopter for a routine inland search and rescue training flight at Lake Miam.
(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Bishop)