June 16, 2016
Editor’s Note: Please click on the image below below to download high-resolution photos and video. For the press release from the event, please click here. Please click here for b-roll from the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star's 2016 deployment. To access all of the photos from today's event, please click here.
Petty Officer 1st Class Kevin Oakes of Stratford, Conn., Petty Officer 3rd Class Augustin Foguet of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Seaman Manon Mullen of Honolulu pose for a photo in the engine room of the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star June 16, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. The Coast Guardsmen were recognized by U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft for their quick-thinking and ingenuity that helped save the mission of the nation’s only heavy icebreaker, Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, following a recent deployment to Antarctica. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley. U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft recognizes (from left to right) Petty Officer 1st Class Kevin Oakes of Stratford, Conn., Petty Officer 3rd Class Augustin Foguet of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Seaman Manon Mullen of Honolulu June 16, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. for their quick-thinking and ingenuity that helped save the mission of the nation’s only heavy icebreaker, Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, following a recent deployment to Antarctica. The crew members made mission-saving repairs to the 40-year-old cutter, which allowed the cutter to break a path through 6- to 8-foot ice for supply ships bound for the U.S. science station there. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley.