USCGC BERTHOLF honors those fallen on September 11, 2001 with a remembrance speech by ENS Franza followed by a moment of silence before evening colors.
Happy Thanksgiving from your deployed U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crew! The crew got together to make this video to show their thanks and appreciation for their families back home. Enjoy! Thanks to PA2 Giles for the incredible video!
Bertholf Alaska Patrol 2017
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf conducted an Alaska Patrol in the Bering Sea where they completed 26 commercial fishing vessel boardings, protected Living Marine Resources and stood by for search and rescue.
Inbound Kodiak
Pulling into Kodiak through the icy bay. #AlaskaPatrol2017
Chatham Straights
Navigating through the Chatham Straights for a training exercise near Juneau, Alaska. Brady Glacier is visible to starboard. #AlaskaPatrol2017
DCC Hall, SK3 Hewes, and FS1 Moore were presented their awards from the Oakland Navy League for Sailor of the Quarter. FS1 Moore was also nominated as Sailor of the year! Thanks you for setting the example! #LegendsBeginHere #CoastGuardCuttermen #SepmerParatus
The engineering officers took a day trip to the shipyard to inspect progress of the work done on Bertholf. They inspected engineering spaces abd tanks that had been opened and saw the preparation work for restructuring and strengthening the deck. #SemperParatus #CoastGuardCuttermen #LegendsBeginHere
Congrats to LTJG Konecni, LTJG Figgins, and LTJG Rank on your advancement to O-2! #CoastGuardCuttermen #SemperParatus
Work in dry dock is 30% complete and remains on track! Take a look at some of the progress being done!
Work in dry dock is 30% complete and remains on track! Take a look at some of the progress being done!
Progress in dry dock is 27% complete. Here are some pictures of the work being done! #CoastGuardCuttermen #SemperParatus
Progress in dry dock is on-track with work 15 percent complete! These pictures follow Bertholf through the docking process. #SemperParatus #LegendsBeginHere
Captain Collins hands out Culture of Professionalism coins to select members.
Thanks for your hard work and for setting a great example LCDR Terrell, LTJG Miller, ENS Figgins, ENS Payne, 1/c Cadet Roy, ITC Konen, MK1 Novotny, OS2 Huggins, MK3 Fechner, BM3 Hendrix, OS3 Benjamin, SN Ball, SNFS Mulvey!
#CoastGuardCuttermen
As a last hoorah before dry dock, the crew sailed Bertholf around the San Juan Islands, enjoying the fresh breeze and beautiful view by the Washington-Canada border.
#Congratulations GM2 Houston and OS2 York on your recent advancement to your present pay grade!
#CoastGuardCuttermen
BERTHOLF recently hosted members of the Japanese Coast Guard onboard. It's always a pleasure to work with our counterparts from other nations.
It's hard to say goodbye to so many amazing shipmates and Bertholf Legends: DC2 McKinley, EM1 Brisker, ET3 Dodson, FCSC Cox, GM2 Baasch and LTJG Perrygo
Fair winds and following seas! #SemperParatus
It's hard to say goodbye to so many amazing shipmates and Bertholf Legends: OS1 Leitzel, OS2 Bauerlein, OS2 Bickford, OS2 Castillo and OS3 Osborn
Fair winds and following seas! #SemperParatus
It's hard to say goodbye to so many amazing shipmates and Bertholf Legends: MEC Keele, MK1 D'arcy, MK1 Miller, MKC Lynn, OS1 Benedetti
Fair winds and following seas! #SemperParatus
It's hard to say goodbye to so many amazing shipmates and Bertholf Legends: BM1 Luna, BM2 Stipple, BM3 Knudsen, CWO Lingo and DC2 Engler
Fair winds and following seas!
#SemperParatus
USCGC Bertholf Sea Turtle Rescue
During a routine counternarcotics patrol on our recent deployment, we ended up finding something unexpected.
BRT flight ops with SD Jan 2016
We recently spent some underway time training with Coast Guard Air Station San Diego. Here two Bertholf crewmembers practice a technique called vertical replenishment, or VERTREP, where we can attach a load to a helicopter while it is still in the air! Thanks to the Air Station and to U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego for everything while we were in town!
USCGC Bertholf Maritime Interdiction Boarding UNITAS 2015
Here's another look at some of our activities as part of the UNITAS 2015 exercises during our recent deployment. Our boarding team conducted a joint maritime interdiction boarding of a simulated rogue cargo ship. Here you can see the entire operation from start to finish. Our boarding team boarded the ship via our small boat and met up with Chilean forces, embarked via helicopter, to search the vessel before returning back to the cutter.
Halloween 2015, USCGC Bertholf
Everyone had a good time at the Halloween party. But if you find yourself wandering the darkened passageways on USCGC Bertholf late on Halloween night, be wary....
57mm Gun Shoot
We recently conducted a test firing exercise of the cutter's 57mm main gun.
We don't use it often, but the exercise was a good refresher. In this video, you can start to hear and feel the power of the gun as it fires.
Throwback Thursday! In July 2009, we conducted our first counternarcotics interdiction in the Eastern Pacific. They tried to run from us in the middle of the night, but we chased them down and seized over $600,000 of illegal narcotics. Here you can see the cutter chasing the suspect vessel and then our small boat moving in with the boarding team to make the bust.