Coast Guard Cutter Healy's journey through the Arctic: No 'ice liberty' in changing waters

This has been, in part, a training mission for the 85 crew members, a task that has added importance as the Coast Guard prepares to increase the U.S. Arctic presence with three new icebreakers that later in this decade are planned to be homeported in Seattle.

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