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Coast Guard touts mobile communications capabilities
Posted by KFSK Petersburg | Apr 9, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Vince Taylor, commanding officer of the Communications Command, briefs reporters on April 8 of the capabilities of the agency’s Mobile Communications Vehicle parked at the Coast Guard Station Juneau. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/CoastAlaska)
The Coast Guard recently held an exercise in Juneau to simulate how it could maintain critical communications in a crisis.
One of the Coast Guard’s three Mobile Communications Vehicles was flown to Juneau on a C-130 transport plane for a two-day training exercise in early April.
Reporters weren’t allowed to see the inside of the 13-ton truck full of radio and satellite equipment.
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An overview of Alaska tourism in 2021 was given by travel association representatives in a virtually held Alaska Legislature Arctic Policy, Economic Development and Tourism Committee meeting Thursday.
Ketchikan Visitors Bureau President and CEO Patti Mackey gave a presentation at the meeting, as did tourism industry representatives from Visit Anchorage, Explore Fairbanks and the Alaska Travel Industry Association.
The committee chair, Rep. Grier Hopkins, D-Fairbanks, led the meeting. Also present were Reps. Harriet Drummond, D-Anchorage; Sara Hannan, D-Juneau;Â Liz Snyder, D-Anchorage; and Tom McKay, R-Anchorage.
Alaska Travel Industry Association President and CEO Sarah Leonard began the session by outlining the topics to be covered: the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Alaskaâs tourism economy, as well as the future goals the Alaska travel industry has set.
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