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Coast Guard outreach team exposes North Slope youth to Coast Guard missions and operations

NOME, Alaska – Petty Officer 2^nd Class Cody Lathrop with the Coast Guard Cutter Mustang homeported in Seward, Alaska, assists a Nome high school student with donning law enforcement gear during the Alaskan Native Outreach Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, at Nome Beltz Junior and Senior High School.  Lathrop spoke about his role in Coast Guard law enforcement and his job as a machinery technician to youth in Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow public schools during the three-day outreach from Sept. 23-25.  Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen, U.S. Coast Guard.

NOME, Alaska – Chief Petty Officer Luis Nieves with Sector Anchorage shows a Nome high school student the proper way to carry a weapon during the Alaskan Native Outreach Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, at Nome Beltz Junior and Senior High School.  Nieves is a Coast Guard reservist and works for the Alaska State Troopers in Kotzebue.  He answered law enforcement questions and demonstrated Coast Guard weapons and law enforcement gear to youth during the three-day outreach in Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow from Sept. 23-25.  Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen, U.S. Coast Guard.

KOTZEBUE, Alaska – Master Chief Petty Officer Jeremiah Roberts with the Seventeenth District Command Center in Juneau shows a Kotzebue middle school student how to plot on a navigational chart during the Alaskan Native Outreach, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, at Kotzebue Public School.  Roberts spoke about the operations specialist rate and his experiences in the Coast Guard.  The outreach lasted three days traveling to Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow to expose and educate North Slope youth about Coast Guard missions and operations from Sept. 23-25.  Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen, U.S. Coast Guard.

KOTZEBUE, Alaska – Petty Officer 1st Class Eileen Nelson with Marine Safety Unit Morgan City, La., participates in a Kid’s Don’t Float program during the Alaskan Native Outreach, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, with Kotzebue elementary students at Kotzebue Public School.  The program focuses on the importance of wearing life jackets.  Nelson spoke about her experiences and traveling opportunities since she has been in the Coast Guard.  Her hometown in Igiugig, Alaska, and has been in the Coast Guard for 17 years.  Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen, U.S. Coast Guard.

BARROW, Alaska – Capt. Henry Shen with Integrated Support Command Ketchikan takes a Barrow Middle School student’s blood pressure during the Alaskan Native Outreach, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, at Barrow Middle School.  Shen is a flight surgeon and medical doctor and spoke with students about his Coast Guard career.  His hometown is Mountain Village, Alaska, and he has been in the Coast Guard for 16 years.  The outreach exposed North Slope youth to Coast Guard operations and missions.  Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen, U.S. Coast Guard.

BARROW, Alaska – Petty Officer 3rd Class Corey Lind with Sector Honolulu and Petty Officer 2nd Class Colleen Parker with Sector Anchorage speak to a Barrow Middle School science class about the marine science technician rate during the Alaskan Native Outreach, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, at Barrow Middle School.  Lind and Parker played a role in exposing elementary, middle and high school students to Coast Guard opportunities during the three-day outreach which traveled to Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow from Sept. 23-25, 2009.  Lind is Native Alaskan and calls King Salmon, Alaska, his hometown.  Parker's hometown is Columbus, Ohio.  Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen, U.S. Coast Guard.  

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