USCG - AK

Air station Kodiak located in in Kodiak Alaska is the largest in the services Pacific area with a crew of 85 officers and 517 enlisted personnel. It is the largest Coast Guard base in terms of Physical size at 23,000 acres. It is the tenant command of base support unit Kodiak and shares its airfield with Kodiak airport. The station operates MH – 60 Jayhawk helicopters and the HC – 130 Hercules fixed swing aircraft. The station’s primary mission is aerial search and rescue in a 4,000,000 mi.² area of responsibility covering the Gulf of Alaska Bristol Bay and the bearing Sea in Alaska Pacific Coast deploying HH – 65 Hill carters aboard high endurance cutters operating off Alaska and providing logistical support to various Coast Guard units in the area. As you may remember that it was the main location of the 2006 action adventure drama, “The Guardian” starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher and Melissa Sagemiller however, the film was shot at air station Elizabeth city in North Carolina with snow being brought in by trucks to resemble an Alaska landscape. The setting for the film is USCG and their AST program.