Coast Guard touts mobile communications capabilities
Posted by KFSK Petersburg | Apr 9, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Vince Taylor, commanding officer of the Communications Command, briefs reporters on April 8 of the capabilities of the agency’s Mobile Communications Vehicle parked at the Coast Guard Station Juneau. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/CoastAlaska)
The Coast Guard recently held an exercise in Juneau to simulate how it could maintain critical communications in a crisis.
One of the Coast Guard’s three Mobile Communications Vehicles was flown to Juneau on a C-130 transport plane for a two-day training exercise in early April.
Reporters weren’t allowed to see the inside of the 13-ton truck full of radio and satellite equipment.
Coast Guard touts mobile communications capabilities
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KODIAK, Alaska The Coast Guard rescued two hunters Thursday from an aground vessel on Admiralty Island, southeast of Juneau.
A Coast Guard Station Juneau 45-foot response boat crew picked up the hunters from the shoreline and transported them to the North Douglas Launch Ramp.
Watchstanders in the Sector Juneau command center received initial notification from the father of one of the hunter s at approximately 3 p.m., that the two men on board a 24-foot aluminum vessel was aground and lost communication with them.
A Coast Guard official is quoted in a press release that the hunters were prepared for the weather and low visibility and they were able to quickly locate them.