The Auxiliary Offers Fun Adventures! Auxiliarists Visit North Pole

Source: United States Coast Guard Pacific Area

Auxiliary Chaplain Lyle Schrag and Deborah Heldt Cordone, Auxiliary Public Affairs Specialist 1 on the bow of USCGC HEALY (WAGB-20) at the North Pole, Oct 2, 2022. Photo by BM3 Wilson USCG Coast Guard Pacific Area

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Congratulations to the very first Auxiliarists to reach the North Pole aboard a Coast Guard vessel! What an exciting mission! On Sept 30, Deborah Heldt Cordone, Auxiliary Public Affairs Specialist 1 and National staff member, along with Lyle Schrag, PhD, Auxiliary Chaplain Corps, traveled to the North Pole aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter HEALY (WAGB-20).

Cordone was deployed for the entire fourmonth mission, leaving from Seattle with HEALY on July 11, to augment in the area of Public Affairs. This is her third mission aboard the icebreaker. Schrag came on board at the beginning of September to augment as the Chaplain when HEALY had a port call in Dutch Harbor, Alaska (located in the Aleutian Islands). This was his first mission aboard HEALY. Both Auxiliarists are from District 13, where

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