FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida ~ 14 JAN 2025

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida

United States Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater (CGAS Clearwater) is the United States Coast Guard's largest air station. It is located at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Clearwater, Florida and is home to nearly 700 USCG aviation and support personnel.

As of June 2019, there were ten MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters, one HC-130H Hercules (the Coast Guard's oldest operational HC-130) and three HC-130H7 Hercules aircraft assigned to CGAS Clearwater.[3] Also on static display is USCG 1023, a restored Grumman HU-16 Albatross.

The HC-130 first became a part of Air Station Clearwater in 1976. The Lockheed HC-130H model is the current version assigned, with 5 such aircraft in the air station's current inventory. HC-130s from Air Station Clearwater have deployed worldwide including most of the contiguous 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, throughout the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

The HC-130 Hercules performs numerous missions in support of Search and Rescue, Law Enforcement, Marine Environmental Protection, and logistics. The aircraft is an ideal platform for long range Search and Rescue, with over 14 hours of airborne endurance and large scanner windows built into the airframe side.

The 9 Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk helicopters previously assigned to the air station have since been replaced by 13 upgraded MH-60T Jayhawk versions. This aircraft has a long-range capability of 600 nautical miles (1100 km) to support Coast Guard cutters on Law Enforcement patrols, deliver dewatering pumps to sinking vessels, evacuate injured crew members from vessels far at sea, and many other missions.

Air Station Clearwater helicopter aircrews fly an average of over 400 Search and Rescue cases each year along both the east and west coasts of Florida, the Bahamas, and beyond.

Air Station Clearwater also operates two aviation facilities in The Bahamas, one at Great Inagua and one at the United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) installation at Andros Island.

These facilities support continually deployed HH-60Js and MH-60Ts from various air stations for Operations Bahamas, Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), a joint U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Coast Guard counter-narcotics (CN) and migrant smuggling interdiction operation.

Learn More About Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

[Kudsman]

Hi. I’ll be around. Want to read a tad between Traitor banishments. Lol.

[radu]

Howdy, lauren.

How are things in your neck o’ da woods?
Have you moved yet or does that still lie ahead? My peabrain can’t remember. LOL

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

You’re so kind to ask, have not moved yet. I am going to work one more Spring event season here, then start hunting about mid-May.

Have scoped out a couple of “where’s” so I am going to spend the summer making some decisions.

Pretty exciting!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Howdy, Kudsman!

Read away. LOL
I’m watching Barry Cunningham’s show on Rumble as he covers the day’s news, especially pertaining to our President-elect.
And keeping an eye on FR. AND keeping an eye on X. Too ADD to do just one thing at a time. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Road Trip: U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida ~

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[radu]

Aaaaaah, a little more work ahead. Don’t let them rope you into the summer events. Then the Fall events. “But we can’t do it nearly as well without you.” :-)

Have fun checking things out as you make your decision!

*HUGZ*

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Man, it looks so strange up there today with almost NO snow on the ground! In January!! Even the mountains have little snow.

At least that horrendous wind has stopped.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Kathy!

*HUGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[luvie]

Thanks, lauren, for a great road trip
To visit our Coasties!
I feel safe with them guarding our seas!

[luvie]

How fun that you are picking a new place to live! Is it going to be farther away than you are now? Hope you find just the right place for all your beautiful things.

[Kudsman]

Happy hunting. Will you be staying in Texas? I'm kind of jealous. I think if ever migrated to Texas it would have to be northern. Like up by the Red River. Spent a couple years in Broken Arrow as a teen. And it actually had a couple c9ld days in the winter. I love my seasons.

Plus i want to save NY. Lol.

[luvie]

IN HONOR OF THE BEAUTIFUL FULL MOON
IT'S THE WOLF MOON OF JANUARY

Benny Goodman Sextet~How High The Moon

Craig Chaquico/Russ Freeman~Samba Del Luna

Glenn Miller~Moonlight Serenade

Gregg Karukas~Moonlit Breeze

Butch Helemano~Lover's Moon

Miner~Paper Moon

Neil Young~Harvest Moon

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Feeling a little more refreshed today after sleeping normal hours? LOL

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

No, not really. I did sleep in, but today and for the next 2 days, we’re having meetings at church at 5pm and so that leaves no time for a nap. I have to start getting ready at about 4pm. So by Thursday, no one will want to come near me for fear of getting their head snapped off. LOL!

How did it go there today? Is it a bit warmer....did you get rain?

[Kudsman]

Go Coasties. There will undoubtley be a heroic role continuing as we undertake deportations.

Sorry, I have an affinity for ships.

[SkyDancer]

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