Welcome Aboard The CGC Mohawk Law Enforcement Patrol - Week 5 We join the crew of the Cutter Mohawk underway on a eight week Law Enforcement Patrol. ENS Kristine Rice will be keeping us updated during this deployment with weekly updates. Thanks, Kristine. All photos are official Coast Guard photos.

The Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk, homeported in Key West, Fla.

Catchin' Up

Welcome to week 5 of life underway with Cutter MOHAWK! We passed the midway point of the patrol and everyone is anxious to see what will happen in the next few weeks before returning home to Key West.

The crew maintained an aggressive operational tempo with small boat training and operations and law enforcement boardings. The gunners finally had the opportunity to shoot the 76mm gun! There was a Hispanic American dinner to celebrate the month’s cultural significance and the Chief’s cooked breakfast for dinner on Saturday night, Denny’s style!

Crewmembers took part in a small arms fire on Sunday afternoon and shot off rounds of .40 caliber pistol, 12 gauge shotgun and M-16 machine gun.

MOHAWK conducted extensive Law Enforcement operations this week, accruing long hours of highly professional aerial and surface searches for vessels of interest. Members of the law enforcement team practiced handcuffing techniques on the flight deck. The crew enjoyed the first swim call of the patrol on Monday afternoon. In addition, MOHAWK rendezvoused with Cutter SPENCER to swap parts and conduct joint helo operations.

A special congratulations goes out to both IT1 McAllister and ET1 Smithers for their promotions to First-Class Petty Officers! Both promotions were well deserved and we’re pleased to have such high performing shipmates on our team!

Mr. McWhorters working in the scullery helping out the Chief’s Mess during their morale cooking night

SNBM Evans, ENS Crews and EM2 Santos in the smallboat

DC3 Harris, the boat engineer for the smallboat

BM3 Torres, MK2 McLaury, ET2 Dunning and FN McConnell enjoying the boat ride

Crewmembers on the flightdeck enjoying swim call

More swim call action

Landing signal officers, ENS Staudt and ET1 Jorgenson

ET1 Jorgenson watching the helicopter come in for a landing

The fueling team: MK3 Gloner, MK3 Mecomber, and DC3 Stacey working with AMT2 Bray after landing

ENS Rice and ET2 Dunning in the smallboat

DC3 Harris, ET2 Dunning and ET1 Smithers still smiling after a long day of law enforcement operations

Crewmembers out in the smallboat during swim call

IT1 McAllister’s promotion

ET1 Smither’s promotion

GM3 Mobiglia drying off after a rainy and obviously, very wet, boarding

GM3 Bear and GM3 Mobiglia

BM1 Garmany, our chauffeur and coxswain for the day

ENS Staudt guiding the helo to the flight deck

ETC Stinson serving up breakfast for dinner to the crew

SK3 Wilson shooting the M-16 during Sunday afternoon familiarization fire

Chief Dort in the smallboat, coming back from working with Cutter Spencer

SN Cortes, part of the tie down team, running out to secure the helicopter