Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth District
United States Coast Guard
Date: Oct. 9, 2009
Contact: (907) 487-5700
Petty Officer 3st Class Charly Hengen
Photo Release

Coast Guard health services technicians lend a helping hand in Kodiak

KODIAK, Alaska – Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Salvati, a health services technician with Health, Safety and Work-Life Field Office’s Rockmore King Clinic, checks for an ear infection Oct. 8, 2009, at the clinic. Salvati is one of the clinic’s medical aviation mission specialists who flies aboard Coast Guard aircraft during medevac cases, has been in the Coast Guard for eight years and is a Naugatuck, Conn., native. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

KODIAK, Alaska – Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Salvati, a health services technician with Health, Safety and Work-Life Field Office’s Rockmore King Clinic, checks for an ear infection Oct. 8, 2009, at the clinic. 

Salvati is one of the clinic’s medical aviation mission specialists who flies aboard Coast Guard aircraft during medevac cases, has been in the Coast Guard for eight years and is a Naugatuck, Conn., native.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

KODIAK, Alaska – Petty Officer 3rd Class Derek Williams, a health services technician with Health, Safety and Work-Life Field Office’s Rockmore King Clinic, performs an ultrasound on Petty Officer 2nd Class Charity Washko’s shoulder Oct. 8, 2009, at the clinic and sees on average 10 to 15 physical therapy patients in a day. Williams has been in the Coast Guard for four years, is a native of Yucaipa, Calif., and recently received his physical therapy assistant degree from Pueblo Community College in Pueblo, Colo. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

KODIAK, Alaska – Petty Officer 3rd Class Derek Williams, a health services technician with Health, Safety and Work-Life Field Office’s Rockmore King Clinic, performs an ultrasound on Petty Officer 2nd Class Charity Washko’s shoulder Oct. 8, 2009, at the clinic and sees on average 10 to 15 physical therapy patients in a day. 

Williams has been in the Coast Guard for four years, is a native of Yucaipa, Calif., and recently received his physical therapy assistant degree from Pueblo Community College in Pueblo, Colo. 

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

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