Welcome Aboard The CGC Bear
Week Eight
Week Eight: This week we join Cutter Bear as she visits Tema, Ghana and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
Cutter Bear welcomes aboard distinguished guest in both ports of call and visits a local
school. Excersises are conducted between the Cutter Bear and the Ghanaian Navy off the coast if Tema, Ghana.
All photos are credited: U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer Second Class Andrew Shinn.
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The Coast Guard Cutter Bear, homeported in Portsmouth, Va.
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U.S. Navy CAPT Thomas Rowden, right, commodore of the Navy's Sixth Fleet's Destroyer Squadron Sixty, works with CDR Robert Wagner to clear a field at a school in Tema, Ghana of weeds.
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CDR Robert Wagner, commanding officer of the Cutter Bear, stands with some school books and supplies given to the school on the naval base in Tema, Ghana by crewmembers of the cutter July 5.
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Third Class Cadet Eddie Michno, right, and U.S. Navy Captain Thomas Rowden hold children at a school on the naval base in Tema, Ghana July 5.
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School children at the school on the Ghanaian Naval Base peer through a window July 5 during a visit by crewmembers from the Cutter Bear.
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Chief (OS) Derrick Brown, command chief aboard the Cutter Bear, reads to children at a school on the Ghanaian Naval base in Tema, Ghana July 5. Crewmembers of the Bear helped with an agriculture project, brought schoolbooks and supplies, and read to and played with the children during the visit.
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Children at the school on the Ghanaian Naval base in Tema, Ghana, play with Lt. Charlie Marino, engineering officer aboard the Cutter Bear, during a visit by the crew of the Bear to the school July 5.
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Members of the Ghanaian Navy watch the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto from the bridge of the Cutter Bear during joint operations off the coast of Tema, Ghana July 6.
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Petty Officer 1st Class (GM) Sam Sprenkle discusses Coast Guard boarding procedures during joint exercises between the Cutter Bear and the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto off the coast of Tema, Ghana July 6.
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Ensign Chris Cumberland, left, and Petty Officer 2nd Class (YN) Victor Almodovar help a member of the Ghanaian Navy aboard the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto during joint exercises off the coast of Tema, Ghana July 6.
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Petty Officer 1st Class (GM) Sam Sprenkle discusses boarding procedures with the captain and executive officer of the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto during joint operations off the coast if Tema, Ghana July 6.
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Chief (OS) Derrick Brown exchanges information with members of the Ghanaian Navy aboard the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto during joint Coast Guard & Ghanaian Navy operations off the coast of Tema, Ghana July 6.
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Ensign Chris Cumberland stands ready to render honors to the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto July 6 during excersises between the Cutter Bear and the Ghanaian Navy off the coast if Tema, Ghana.
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Seaman Jason West watches Petty Officer 2nd Class (OS) Ian McGoohan paint a classroom at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9.
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Ensign Dewey Worker paints a classroom at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9.
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CDR Robert Wagner, commanding officer of the Cutter Bear, surveys a school where volunteers from his crew are working July 9 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Volunteers from the crew painted and cleaned several classrooms.
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The crew of the Cutter Bear brought schoolbooks and toys to children at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class (BM) Zach Snavely, left, salutes an Equitorial Guinean military official during a reception aboard the Cutter Bear in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9.
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CDR Robert Wagner, commanding officer of the Cutter Bear, and Neils Marquadt, U.S. ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, welcome Pastor Micha Ondo Bile, the foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea, during a reception held aboard the cutter in the country's capital, Malabo, July 9.
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A band made up of of American expatriats working for oil companies in Equatorial Guinea plays music for a reception held aboard the Cutter Bear in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9.
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Crewmembers of the Cutter Bear painted this classroom at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 10.
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Boarding team members from the Cutter Bear pose with members of the crew of the Ghanaian Naval Ship Achimoto during joint operations off the coast of Tema, Ghana July 6.
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Crewmembers of the Cutter Bear painted and cleaned several classrooms at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9 and 10.
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U.S. Navy CAPT Thomas Rowden, commodore of the Navy's Sixth Fleet's Destroyer Squadron Sixty, talk with children at the school on the Ghanaian naval base in Tema, Ghana July 5.
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Petty Officer 1st Class (SK) Alex Moraitis and Petty Officer 3rd Class (BM) Alex Fernandez stand guard at a perimeter set up around the Cutter Bear in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 8.
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Ensign Dewey Worker paints a classroom at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 9.
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The head of a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, thanks CDR Robert Wagner, commanding officer of the Cutter Bear, July 9 for his crew's work at her school. Volunteers from the crew painted and cleaned two classrooms July 9 and 10.
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A girl at the school on the Ghanaian Naval Base in Tema, Ghana wears a hat from the Cutter Bear July 5. Crewmembers of the Bear visited the school. They helped with an agriculture project, read to the students, played games, and brought school books and supplies to donate.
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Chief (MK) Walter Prim cleans up after painting two classrooms with fellow crewmembers of the Cutter Bear at a school in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea July 10.
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