A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevacs an injured 72-year-old female hiker from the Chilkoot Pass, approximately 15 miles northeast of Skagway, Alaska, Aug. 3, 2019. The Jayhawk crew hoisted the woman and transferred her to awaiting emergency medical services personnel in Juneau for further care. U.S. Coast Guard video.
By Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Dean
From machinery technicians to boatswain’s mates, all have an equally important role in aids to navigation work. Known among mariners as ATON, it’s an integral part of living and working on a Coast Guard buoy tender in Alaska that consists of maintaining navigational aids and buoys over countless hours of difficult, dirty and dangerous work. These factors of ATON work inspired the creation of a...
Story by: Petty Officer 1st Class Charly Hengen and Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren Dean.
Coast Guardsmen stationed across Alaska answered the call to work alongside Department of Defense personnel to provide medical care to remote Alaskans living above the Arctic Circle, April 13-27.
