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Coast Guard Base Kodiak

Coast Guard Base Kodiak is a major shore installation of the United States Coast Guard, located in Kodiak, Alaska. The largest tenant unit on the base is Air Station Kodiak. It is also the home port for several cutters. Historic elements that it includes are the Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Fort Greely, and Fort Abercrombie.

Kodiak Naval Operating Base and Forts Greely and Abercrombie
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Kodiak Air Station, January 1989
LocationKodiak Station, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Nearest cityKodiak, Alaska
Coordinates57°44′19″N 152°30′17″W / 57.73861°N 152.50472°W / 57.73861; -152.50472
Area3,000 acres (1,200 ha)
Built1941
NRHP reference No.85002731
AHRS No.KOD-124; KOD-137[a]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPFebruary 4, 1985[1]
Designated NHLFebruary 4, 1985[2]

The station is the subject of the series Coast Guard Alaska on The Weather Channel and is prominently featured in the 2006 film The Guardian and is frequently referenced in the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch.

History edit

The base began as the United States Navy's Naval Air Station Kodiak on 15 June 1941. Artillery emplacements survive on Buskin Hill, Artillery Hill, and at Fort Abercrombie (now a state park), but little remains of Fort Greely's barracks.[3]

On 17 April 1947 the Coast Guard Air Station was commissioned as an Air Detachment at the navy base with one PBY Catalina aircraft, seven pilots, and thirty crewmen. On 25 April 1972 the order establishing Coast Guard Base Kodiak and CG RADSTA Kodiak was issued by the Commandant of the CG. CG Air Station Kodiak was already operating with three HC-130H airplanes and two HH-52A helicopters. Today, CG Air Station Kodiak operates five HC-130J aircraft, five MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters, and five MH-65C Dolphin helicopters.[4]

Kodiak Naval Operating Base, Fort Greely, and Fort Abercrombie were together listed on the National Register of Historic Places and also declared to be a National Historic Landmark in 1985 for the role the facilities played in World War II.[2][3]

2012 shooting edit

On April 12, 2012, two Coast Guard members were found fatally shot at their work stations in one of the communications buildings on-base.[5] After an investigation conducted by the FBI, Coast Guard Investigative Service, and Alaska State Troopers, the prime suspect (James Michael "Jim" Wells) was arrested.[6]

 
An injured person is transferred to awaiting emergency medical services personnel at Air Station Kodiak

Homeported cutters edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Kodiak Naval Base and Fort Greely were enlisted as a single entry in Alaska Heritage Resources Survey as KOD-124. Fort Abercombie was enlisted in Alaska Heritage Resources Survey as KOD-137.

References edit

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b . National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2008.
  3. ^ a b Erwin N. Thompson (April 9, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Kodiak Naval Operating Base and Forts Greely and Abercrombie / US Coast Guard Support Center and Fort Abercrombie State Historic Park". National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) and Accompanying 7 photos from 1982 and 1983. (708 KB)
  4. ^ "Coast Guard Transfers Fifth HC-130J to Air Station Kodiak". Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  5. ^ Pemberton, Mary (April 12, 2012). "Coast Guard: 2 dead in shooting at Alaska station". The Associated Press. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  6. ^ Brianna Gibbs (February 16, 2013). "Suspect arrested in double homicide on Kodiak Coast Guard base". KLOO. Retrieved February 22, 2013.

External links edit

  • Coast Guard Base Kodiak
  • Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak
  • 17th District Alaska - USCG
  • Base Kodiak MWR Nemetz RV Park

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