An interview with Rear Admiral Branham Commander Seventh Coast Guard District Rear Admiral Branham has commanded the Seventh Coast Guard District for about two years; his AOR covers parts of the waters of South Carolina, all of Georgia, Florida, the Caribbean and some waters off Central America and Northern South…
[caption id="attachment_8720" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="General Duncan J. McNabb, Commander U.S. Transportation Command"][/caption] SLD sat down with General Duncan J. McNabb, Commander U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), and his staff to discuss the role of TRANSCOM in current operations, with a special emphasis on Afghanistan and Haiti. This part of the interview…
UAV Lessons Learned: Coping With Disruptive Technologies By C.J. Pappas Constantine Pappas is starting a series on the development of the UAV environment in the Department of Defense as a new regular SLD contributor. *** This is the first of a series of anecdotal vignettes of the development of the…
A burning issue Photo credit: Monica Leftwitch, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 21st, 2010 "Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard…
The USCG National Strike Force: A Key National Asset to Deal with Environmental Challenges (Part Two) SLD sat down with Commander Tina Cutter, Deputy Commander of the National Strike Force and Lieutenant Commander Tedd Hutley, operations manager for the National Strike Force, in mid-February of 2010. The National Strike Force…
SLD sat down with Commander Tina Cutter, Deputy Commander of the National Strike Force and Lieutenant Commander Tedd Hutley, operations manager for the National Strike Force in mid-February of 2010. The National Strike Force is one of the United States Coast Guard elements to be affected by the budget cuts,…
By Mark J. Lewis Mark J. Lewis is chairman of Clark School’s Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and president-elect of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force from 2004 to 2008. An earlier version…
"Reverse Engineering" of USCG Operations: the Hatteras Rescue (Miracle) Case Early January 2010, a dramatic rescue effected by the USCG was done in cooperation with the US Navy to save a man’s life at sea. This rescue involved key C4ISR assets on the new USCG MC-130Js. In a time of…
