[GATOR NAVY]

Now we know where the Coast Guard sends you when the detailer hates you ;-)

[MichaelP]

How would you like to be out on a crab boat in those conditions?

Mike

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Are the crab fishermen out on that sea right now?

[beethovenfan]

It’s global warming, I tell ya!!

[Vigilanteman]

Sounds like a perfect place to move the Gitmo detainees. Alaska could probably be persuaded to cede one of these islands to territorial status so the ACLU would have to get a visa from the Department of Defense to visit them.

[Vermont Lt]

That must be some great duty.

Lots of checkers, and strong arms from shoveling.

Thanks, no. I’d rather go to Key West.

[Tallguy]

There are 20 active-duty personnel based at the station on year-long assignments.

Translation: There are 20 Coasties serving time for various infractions that were insufficiently serious to end a career.

[Leg Olam]

‘Now we know where the Coast Guard sends you when the detailer hates you ;-)’

Damn straight. Icebreakers and bouy tending boats are tough duty but weather stations are the pits. Long hours, boredom and extreme conditions. Back before we had enough weather satellites most weather station duty was on ships. Try sitting for a month somewhere off the coast of Labradore doing three to five hour watches strapped into a encapsuled crowsnest fifty feet above the deck making 30 degee arcs with little or no heat...God bless the men of the USCG. They are about as tough as they come.

[alarm rider]

The AF used to send the problem children to Greenland, or Guam.

[BP2]

> 178 mph gusts batter Aleutian Coast Guard outpost

WOW, that is some COLD, DENSE air coming our way.

It also sounds like a new official record for Alaska!:

From July 16, 2001
Whipped by gusts and scoured by dust, towns keep heads down
http://www.earthmountainview.com/wind_problems.htm
Anchorage Daily News

-snip-

The island of Attu, in the Aleutians, holds the official record for highest wind gust in Alaska with a 159 mph blast in 1950.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Good reason to behave in the Guard ping. ;)

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Played hell with their golf shots.

[Western Phil]

Out in Attu

You can see Shemya from your front porch (sometimes).

[Ptarmigan]

I thought Ike was bad, but this is worse. That’s a major hurricane force wind right there!

[Billthedrill]

Out in Attu, the crew of the Coast Guard's Long-Range Navigation Station reported sustained winds of 125 mph with gusts hitting 178 mph...

Wind-surfing's gonna seem awfully tame to those guys when they get back to the Lower 48.

[Ramius]

Now we know where the Coast Guard sends you when the detailer hates you ;-)

LOL... I never did it, but I know a couple of guys that did. They actually enjoyed it, and there's some other benefits: You put in your year, but then you get first pick of your next duty station. Plus they get "isolated duty pay"-- with nowhere to spend it-- so you come out of your year there with a nice pile of cash too. It's not so bad after all.

[TYVets]

There are 20 active-duty personnel based at the station on year-long assignments.

Capt. Obvious says "It would be a veeeeeery long year".