Integrated Support Command Kodiak

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Integrated Support Command Kodiak is the largest operating base of the United States Coast Guard, in Kodiak, Alaska. It includes Air Station Kodiak, LORAN Station Kodiak, and other units in the Coast Guard's Seventeenth District (Alaska).

The base began as the Navy's Naval Air Station Kodiak on 15 June 1941.

On 17 April 1947 the Coast Guard Air Station was commissioned as an Air Detachment at the navy base with one PBY Catalina aircraft, seven pilots, and thirty crewmen.

On 25 April 1972 the order establishing Coast Guard Base Kodiak and CG RADSTA Kodiak was issued by the Commandant of the CG. CG Air Station Kodiak was already operating with three HC-130H airplanes and two HH-52A helicopters.

Homeported ships

• USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
• USCGC Storis (WMEC-38)
• USCGC Spar (WLB-206)

External links

• [USCG ISC Kodiak]
• [Kodiak Alaska Military History]

 

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