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Where in the 🌎 is IMAT?
A few members of our unit just returned from supporting an exercise pretty far away from our home base! The unit we supported is located just outside Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and is situated at the end of a historic wagon trail that stretched across the country. Where in the 🌎 was IMAT? Drop your guesses below! 👇
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT? Believe it or not, this week most of us were right here in Norfolk, Virginia!
We know that in order for us to be able to help other units effectively, we have to make sure we make time to focus on our unit’s training, too. We spent the week doing an IMAT internal workshop right here at home. We also invited a few other local units to play along!
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
Members of CG-IMAT have been deployed to the Western Maui wildfires for the last several weeks and continue to support the ongoing ESF-10 response.
Working with our various governmental partners is one of the best parts of the job—team work truly does make the dream work! Thanks again for having us, NWS Key West!
This evening we hosted the U.S. Coast Guard Incident Management Assist Team (IMAT) from Norfolk, VA at our office in Key West. Their Commanding Officer, CDR Bill McKinstry, assisted with our 00Z weather balloon release and can be seen here holding the balloon. It was a great opportunity to exchange information on our operations and to explain more about the importance of our upper-air releases, even more so when there are approaching tropical systems!
Thank you for the visit, U.S. Coast Guard IMAT & CDR McKinstry!
U.S. Coast Guard IMAT 🤝 US National Weather Service Key West Florida
NWS Key West invited us over tonight to help them launch one of their weather balloons! We got to learn how their balloons gather atmospheric data, as well as how that data becomes the weather predictions that help inform us and keep us safe in the event of impending severe weather.
Don’t worry—as big as that balloon is, our commanding officer didn’t float away with it! 🎈
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT? If you guessed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, you were right! We spent the week working with U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay on their Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) exercise. Thanks for having us, Sector Del Bay!
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT?
This week, we’re coaching in the U.S.’s former capital city and the birthplace of one of our fellow uniformed services, the U.S. Marine Corps. Where in the 🌎 are we? Drop your guesses below! 👇
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Celebrating a few more of our members today:
Yesterday, USCGC KENNEBEC hosted us for LCDR Tim Brown’s promotion to CDR. Congratulations, CDR Brown! 🥳
We also recently said farewell to two fantastic IMATers: MSTC Rick Hill and SK1 Tim Ford. 🥺We’re sad to see them go, but we know our loss is their new units’ gain!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
: LT Jonathan Lee, LT Thadeus Pope, and LT Hendrik Juwana from IMAT’s Reserve Branch all recently promoted to LCDR. Congratulations to all three on their well-deserved promotions! 🥳
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT? If you guessed Savannah, Georgia, you were right!
We spent the week supporting MSU Savannah while they practiced their hurricane response procedures at the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast HURREX. Our team loved working with MSU Savannah as they made sure they were prepared in case of real life emergency!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
IMAT is on the move! This week, we’re supporting an exercise in the USA’s oldest planned city. Where in the 🌎 are we? Guess below—no cheating! 👇
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Where in the 🌎is IMAT?
We joined U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team in New Jersey to assist response efforts for the fire aboard Grande Costa d’Avorio. Luckily the fire is now out 🙏.
Our thoughts are with Firefighters Acabou and Brooks who died trying to knock the blaze down, along with the five other firefighters who were injured.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
The highs and lows of transfer season: a promotion 🥳 and two departures 🥺.
LT Kurtis Mau is a reservist with us for the summer and promoted to LCDR just in time for us to send him out the door to support the EPA out in Guam!
LT Li and LCDR Collier received their departing awards as they move on to new units. Since we are so small, the character of the unit shifts and sways with every transfer season. It will be interesting to see how the loss of these two big personalities will pivot the IMAT. You two will be missed 🫶!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
We are well into season. Nothing of significance is brewing in the Atlantic today, however, we thought the graphic below would be a great reminder moving forward.
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area
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U.S. Coast Guard IMAT
US Coast Guard/Homeland Security Headquarters
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston
U.S. Coast Guard Northeast
U.S. Coast Guard Heartland
U.S. Coast Guard Southeast
IMAT celebrated our 10 year anniversary the best way we know how: with food and half of the team deployed 🤦♀️😂. It can be tricky to plan any type of event with this on-the-move crew but in the last 10 years since our establishment we have had the opportunity to work with impressive Coast Guard teams responding to complex emergencies world-wide.
To all IMAT alum, past and present, list some of the incidents you have deployed to in the comments below to show the diversity and scope of impact. Thank you 🙏 for the past 10 years of growing ICS professionalism and crisis leadership throughout the Coast Guard!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard
Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
Update from Hafa Adai ahead (🇬🇺): the resiliency and community spirit packed into this tiny island is impressive! Units from all over the country have surged personnel to support U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia so they can best support their families.
Best part of the job 🫶.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area
U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific
Last workshop of the season! Our Reserve Worshop Coaching Team lit up the big 🍎 over the weekend. Thanks to U.S. Coast Guard New York for the hospitality!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
Congratulations to all of the advancements, promotions and awards for IMAT over the last few days!
YNCS Narvaez received a Commendation Medal for her time at IMAT. Luckily she will be close by so we can pop by for help 🤭!
SK2 Ford advanced to SK1! The whole team is so proud of this dedicated Coastie 🫶.
OSC Repasi promoted to CWO and swapped the anchors for flashy new boards 🫡.
The flip side of flying up through the ranks for these three is having to transfer early. There will definitely be a void in the team without you all 😫.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Where in the 🌏is IMAT?
Riding in style en route deployment with a few stops along the way! 🏝️🪸
We appreciate the transport U.S. Coast Guard Airsta Barbers Point 🙌.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area
U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific
U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia
Last week we had a team at U.S. Coast Guard Sector Detroit for our final Active Duty workshop of the year!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes
Congratulations to LCDR Tory Saxon who retired yesterday alongside her husband (of 21 years!) CWO Mike Saxon. Between a workshop and impending deployment, we are thankful that so many could share in this custom-tailored, story-filled, PG 😉 ceremony.
Fair 💨 and following 🌊.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Stay safe U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia! We are thinking about you, your families and your community 🫶.
In honor of this year’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, is highlighting LT Linda Li. LT Li is a spark plug of a woman bundled in quiet, professional package. This jet-setter is an integral member of the IMAT family.
We are going to miss her when she transfers out this year to her new unit: U.S. Coast Guard New York 🗽!
🎤: How long have you been in the CG?
LT Li: 4 years
🎤: What is your favorite CG memory?
LT Li: One of my most favorable memories was also one of my most challenging memories. Prior to IMAT, I served onboard one of the last 378s, CGC JOHN MIDGETT, and decommissioned her. I was one of the last JOs onboard, so I ended up absorbing majority of the collateral duties. The decommissioning process was long; I remember working long hours on projects that needed to be completed. But with the motivation and help of the last crew onboard the mighty MIDGETT, I was able to accomplish all remaining projects before handing her over to the Vietnamese CG. Upon departure and seeing her for the last time, it was one of the best accomplishments and feeling of satisfaction till this day.
🎤: What is your favorite thing about the IMAT?
LT Li: Getting to travel around the country✈️, including Puerto Rico and Guam, coaching/facilitating ICS during workshops, exercises, and deployments. I also really enjoy working with the awesome people at the unit.
🎤: What do you do other than the CG?
LT Li: Painting👩🏻🎨🎨🖼, watching crime shows🕵🏻♀️ and traveling/exploring other countries🗺 (I also traveled to Northern Ireland🇬🇧, Italy🇮🇹, Austria🇦🇹, Germany🇩🇪, and Switzerland🇨🇭while at the unit!)
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
In addition to our Active Duty workshops, we also have qualified Reserve Workshop Facilitators to coach the Coast Guard’s Reserve contingent. Most recently the team hit up U.S. Coast Guard Sector Detroit!
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U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT?
👍👍 to Sector Mobile for a great workshop! A lot of participation, humidity and fresh qualifications!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Heartland
SKC Lisa Pique completed Chief’s Call to Initiation (CCTI) today! CCTI is a time honored tradition in which newly advanced E7s are taught the values of time management, networking, mentoring and leaning on each other as a team to accomplish difficult tasks. They learn Words of Wisdom from experienced Chiefs and, most importantly, that they are not alone when challenges arise from Public Service. Congratulations of your achievement Chief!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard
It’s National Hurricane Preparedness Week!
With warmer weather quickly approaching, now is the time to prepare for season.
If everyone would take a few moments this week to learn about hurricane safety and implement a hurricane plan, then we would all be better off when hurricanes threaten their area.
Remember you should prepare each and EVERY YEAR, as it only takes one storm!
Visit https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ for up to date information.
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U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area
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U.S. Coast Guard IMAT
US Coast Guard/Homeland Security Headquarters
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT??
Boston: SK2 Ford attended a Preparedness Assessment Visit (PAV) with the National Strike Force Coordination Center. A PAV is a site visit to ensure that the resources that classify an Oil Spill Response Organization are present, owned and maintained in working order.
Washington DC: LCDR Saxon briefed the Coast Guard’s Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers (Coast Guard Reservists embedded at the FEMA regions) on IMAT’s unique capabilities.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT?
With one team in North Carolina’s Outer Banks for an exercise, another was sent to Ketchikan, AK to support a U.S. Coast Guard Sector Juneau exercise. Practice how you play!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area
U.S. Coast Guard Alaska
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT?
Thank you to our followers! We enjoy showcasing our unique unit and highlighting our globetrotting team as they support Operational Commanders around the 🌎.
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Where in the 🌎 is IMAT?
This week we had five of our teammates attending a conference in Denver, CO. Consistent growth is the key to success!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
Some more pics from the Miami workshop team from last week. This year’s workshop lineup has sent us to some beautiful locations☀️!
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response
U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command
U.S. Coast Guard Southeast
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami
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