Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters | 04.15.2021
The U.S. Coast Guard is inviting families to Bring Your Children to OUR Work Day on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Coast Guard units around the world will bring children (grades K-12) aboard cutters, planes, helicopters and more in a series of virtual field trips. (U.S. Coast Guard Video)...
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Shepard | U.S. Coast Guard East | 12.18.2019
Prospective Coast Guard rescue swimmers undergo several different aspects of Aviation Survival Technician training aboard Coast Guard Aviation Technical Training Center Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Dec. 18-19, 2019. ASTs are highly-conditioned rescue and survival experts, as well as highly-capable aviation life support equipment technicians, and are trained to operate in a variety of......
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Tautfest | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 10.04.2018
Coast Guard personnel who aspire to be aviation survival technicians train at the Base Kodiak Northern Lights Recreation Center pool in Kodiak, Alaska, Oct. 4, 2018. A 16-week program has been developed by Coast Guard Aviation Technical Training Center to prepare AST-A school candidates for the rigors of A-school. U.S. Coast Guard video by Chief Petty Officer Charly Hengen....
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Hill | U.S. Coast Guard East | 10.23.2013
Coast Guard personnel participate in underwater egress training in an indoor pool at the Coast Guard Aviation Technical Training Center located in Elizabeth City, N.C. The Coast Guard implemented underwater egress training July 2013 at the ATTC aimed at increasing a member's survivability in the event of a small boat capsizing. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Hill....
Video by Chief Petty Officer NyxoLyno Cangemi and Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Hill | U.S. Coast Guard East | 08.08.2013
Aviation survival technician instructors at the Coast Guard Aviation Technical Training Center in Elizabeth City, N.C., simulated a boat taking on water with three people aboard for AST trainees, Wednesday, July 31. The swimmer had to get the people into a life raft and transfer them one-by-one to the hoist platform where the victims were placed into a rescue basket and hoisted to safety. U.S.......