COAST GUARD AVIATION - USCG Air Stations, Dets, SAR Units

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice 4" fully embroidered CGAS SAVANNAH, GA, also looks and feels like a Gemsco patch

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The old versus the new - 1960's/70's on the left side - 1990's/2000's on the right side

Brooklyn NY, Elizabeth City NC, Barbers Point Hawaii (Oahu)

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Coast Guard Air Stations 1980's/1990's manufacture, including the two different San Francisco patterns

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Newer Coast Guard Air Stations 2000's manufacture (computer generated glue backs)

Two different Humboldt Bay, Puerto Rico, San Diego, LA, Houston, Clearwater, Kodiak

and a favorite, the winged lazyboy - Muskegon - Trailer Trash - "Naturalus Selectus Interuptus!"

[Wharfmaster]

How about a Kodiak Bear patch.

 

 

Wharf

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Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point Hawaii - 5" Search and Rescue

[US82Bravo]

USCG Air Station San Francisco variants -

 

 

Larry

[US82Bravo]

Oregon Air Stations- (recent patches)

 

 

 

 

Larry

[bronxboymike]

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USCG Search and Rescue School

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East Coast SAR Wet Crewman

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CGAS ANNETTE ISLAND, ALASKA - Annette Air Station, Penal Colony or Paradise? https://cgaviationhistory.org/hangar-flying/annette-air-station/

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Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn, NY

 

 

CGAS Brooklyn, NY Search and Rescue Gemsco

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USCG Aviation Medevac Specialist - USCG Aircrewman

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USCG SAR NEW ORLEANS, LA - RESCUE SWIMMER

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USCG MIAMI SAR The Pink Flamingos

 

MIAMI AIR, The Busiest Air Sea Rescue Unit in the World

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CGAS SANGLEY POINT, P.I. - Established after WWII and in operation under COMPHILSEC SOUTH CHINA SEA until the end of the Vietnam War. Also the site of a USCG LORAN Station.

[Salvage Sailor]

USCG MIAMI SAR The Pink Flamingos

 

MIAMI AIR, The Busiest Air Sea Rescue Unit in the World

 

CGAS MIAMI - Coast Guard Air Station Miami Florida

[Salvage Sailor]

USCG KODIAK ALASKA, AIR SEA RESCUE

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COAST GUARD AIR STATION KODIAK ALASKA - SEARCH AND RESCUE

[Salvage Sailor]

 

Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn, NY

 

 

CGAS BROOKLYN Different version than the Gemsco with more detail on the wings, also American made

[Salvage Sailor]

COAST GUARD AIR STATION KODIAK ALASKA - SEARCH AND RESCUE

 

KODIAK NAS, NS, CGAS ALASKA

NAVAL AIR STATION, NAVAL STATION, COAST GUARD AIR STATION

[TheCrustyBosun]

My first station out of USCG boot camp was CG Group/Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas. Just about everyone at the airsta was issued a flight jacket including myself. I was stationed there for a year and a half before transferring to the ATON depot. Here’s my unit patch.