Photos Available: U.S. Army aircrew assists Coast Guard in recovering beached buoy near Tillamook Bay.

An aircrew aboard a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., prepares to lift off a beach adjacent to the South Jetty on Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi, Ore., during a buoy recovery operation, Dec. 12, 2016.The Army aircrew assisted the Coast Guard in recovering the beached buoy that normally marks the navigable channel into Tillamook Bay.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read. An aircrew aboard a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., prepares to take the load of a 14,000 pound buoy that washed ashore just south of the entrance to Tillamook Bay, in Garibaldi, Ore., Dec. 12, 2016.The buoy was transported up the Oregon Coast to Tongue Point in Astoria, Ore., where the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Fir pulled it out of the water.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read. An aircrew aboard a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter, from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., flies up the northern Oregon Coast carrying a 14,000 pound buoy toward the Coast Guard base at Tongue Point in Astoria, Ore.,Dec. 12, 2016.The Chinook aircrew assisted the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Fir in recovering the beached buoy from just south of the entrance to Tillamook Bay.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read. An aircrew aboard a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter, from Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash., lowers a buoy into the water near the Coast Guard Cutter Fir at Tongue Point in Astoria, Ore., after assisting the Coast Guard recover the buoy from a beach adjacent to theTillamook Bay in Garibaldi, Ore., Dec. 12, 2016.The buoy weighs about 14,000 pounds and was too heavy for a Coast Guard helicopter to transport.U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read.