ANIMAL HOUSE - PART 3

AUXDOG

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteer Kevin Shortell

Thunder, the Flotilla Staff officer for Canine Affairs (FSO-K9) at U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 53 in Chesapeake, Virginia, attired in operational dress uniform on Aug. 5, 2011.

POLAR BEAR PATROL

During U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy's most 2022 deployment to the Arctic and North Pole, Deborah Heldt Cordone, an Auxiliary Public Affair Specialist 1, snapped polar bear photos. This bear was sighted by crew members on the bridge, located a few hundred yards away off the starboard quarter. As the cutter came to a stop, the curious bear continued a few hundred yards from the bow and port side, then continued on its way.

IT'S A DOG'S LIFE - SAVED

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard
Petty Officer 3rd Class Austen Marshall, an avionics electrical technician and a flight mechanic at Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles, calms a dog his aircrew rescued from a grounded sailing vessel near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on Dec. 28, 2022. The aircrew rescued one person and two dogs from the vessel.


HAY THERE!

Photo: U.S. Coat Guard
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew dropped hay bales to cattle stranded by winter storms in California in March 2023.


A ROUND OF A-PAWS

A patrol from U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale rescued "Bunny" the dog from the Intracoastal Waterway and reunited her with her owner.


PUPPY KISSES

Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Nate Littlejohn
U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Nina Bowen shows some love to Chief Bert, Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina's mascot, near the boathouse at the station on Feb. 17, 2017. Chief Bert is a retired explosive detection dog who worked for six years with the Maritime Safety and Security Team in Gavelston, Texas.