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Coast Guard Cutters, Motor Life Boats and small boats sit tied to the remaining docks in the setting sun Sept. 18, 2008, at Coast Guard Sector Field Office Galveston, following Hurricane Ike. Despite the hurricane's high winds and storm surge, the units at SFO Galveston remain operational, and many aids to navigation units from all over the Gulf Coast are working to replace the nearly 90-percent of the aids to navigation, which were destroyed by the storm. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Rob Simpson |
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President George W. Bush greets Petty Officer 2nd Class John Shackelford in the hangar of Coast Guard Air Station Houston, Sept. 15, 2008. President Bush paid a special visit to the area to survey the damage left in the wake of Hurricane Ike. During his visit, President Bush thanked all crewmembers for their dedication before, during and after Hurricane Ike. Following his arrival, President Bush boarded a helicopter for an overflight. 147th Reconaissance Wing, Texas Air National Guard photo/Senior Master Sgt. Marcus Falleaf |
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Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Ricky Cruz from the Engineering Support Detachment in Panama City, Fla., washes mud from his boots before getting underway at the Marine Safety Unit in Port Arthur, Texas' Small Boat Facility Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Heavy flooding from Hurricane Ike damaged the MSUs Small Boat Facility and Coast Guard crewmembers are working to clean large amounts of mud from the facility. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaclyn Young |
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Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Rick Ward secures the boat trailer after helping launch a 25-foot smallboat and crew into the Sabine River from the loading dock at the Marine Safety Unit in Port Arthur's Small Boat Facility Monday Sept. 15, 2008. The crew got underway to conduct a pollution response inspection along the river. Many boats used the dock as a staging area to launch boats carrying deployable containment boom to place around polluted areas. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaclyn Young |
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Air Station Houston crewmembers remove the power cable from a HH-65C rescue helicopter before flying a search and rescue mission near Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen Lehmann |
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| Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey Hanchette (foreground), a rescue swimmer from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and Petty Officer 1st Class Kelly Mccarthy, also a rescue swimmer from Elizabeth City, sit and brace for take-off in a HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter as they begin the overflight assessments of southwest Louisiana and southwest Texas following the landfall of Hurricane Ike Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Each HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter deployed for Hurricane Ike response carried one additional rescue swimmer during the overflight missions. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas M. Blue |
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| Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey Hanchette (foreground), a rescue swimmer from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and Petty Officer 1st Class David Ashey, an aviation maintenance technician also from Elizabeth City, scan the flooded areas of Cameron, La., aboard a HH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter for anyone needing assistance during overflight assessments following the landfall of Hurricane Ike Saturday, Sept. 14, 2008. The Coast Guard deployed additional search and rescue aircraft from numerous Air Stations from throughout the Coast Guard to aid in search and rescue response for the citizens of Texas and Louisiana. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas M. Blue |
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| Pilots from throughout the Coast Guard participate in a briefing at the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala., prior to being deployed into effect areas in southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas following the landfall of Hurricane Ike Saturday, Sept. 14, 2008. The Coast Guard deployed additional search and rescue aircraft from numerous Air Stations from throughout the Coast Guard to aid in search and rescue response for the citizens of Texas and Louisiana. U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas M. Blue |
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Sector Houston-Galveston's boat operations house was completely submerged after Hurricane Ike made landfall on the Texas coast Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (U.S. Coast Guard photo) |