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.