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Upon completing operations after Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Coast Guard members offload MH-65 Dolphin helicopters from an Air Force C-17 aircraft at a Coast Guard Air Station in Miami, Florida, in response to Hurricane Irma that ravaged the state. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard


These two back-to-back mega-hurricanes tested disaster response teams perhaps more than ever before, and preliminary debriefings suggest that public and private crews rose to the occasion through highly coordinated cooperation that flows from decades of lessons learned. The Coast Guard, for example, shifted its aviation assets that surged in to help with Harvey so they were pre-positioned and ready for Hurricane Irma.


“Coast Guard standardization allows for pilots, flight mechanics, and rescue swimmers from different units to come together and immediately and safely conduct rescues,” said Capt. Bryan Dailey, 8th Coast Guard District chief of response. “This cornerstone of CG aviation allowed us to be flexible and quickly get assets on the scene in Corpus, Houston, Beaumont, and Port Arthur.


“I am proud of the entire CG aviation team; they came together, solved tough challenges, and saved approximately 1,500 lives.”


Fifty-nine tick-marks adorn the door of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter as it sits on the flightline of Moody Air Force Base. The tick-marks represent the number of lives this helicopter crew saved during Hurricane Harvey relief operations. Photo by Andrea Jenkins


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