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United States Coast Guard Air Station Houston is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located southeast of downtown Houston, Texas on board the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base (JRB). Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Houston has provided an all-weather 24/7 Search & Rescue (SAR) coverage capability to the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast since 1963. ==Missions== CGAS Air Station Houston's missions include Search and Rescue (SAR), Homeland Security, Fisheries Enforcement, Environmental Protection, and Military Sealift Command vessel escorts. CGAS Houston's Area of Responsibility (AOR) includes 3 of the 4 Strategic Petroleum Reserve facilities in the United States, the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, and the expansive petroleum and gas industry located on board hundreds of oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. CGAS Houston's AOR also include the strategic ports and waterways of Freeport, Sabine, Lake Charles, as well as the U.S.'s second busiest port in terms of total cargo volume trade in the Houston Ship Channel.〔http://www.aapa-ports.org/Industry/content.cfm?ItemNumber=900〕 CGAS Air Station Houston provides three MH-65C "Dolphin" helicopters, patrolling an area from the Colorado River to White Lake, Louisiana, averaging more than 180 SAR cases a year. Homeland security is also an important mission of CGAS Air Station Houston. Air Station Houston helicopters patrol the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast and is one a handful of selected CG Air Stations to be certified in Airborne Use-of-Force operations for Port Waterways Coastal Security. Air Station Houston's MH-65C Dolphin helicopters have the capability to be armed with both a M240H machine gun and an M-14T EBR variant.〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syDTTF69AaU〕 CGAS Houston aircraft protect the environment by patrolling the ecologically rich Gulf of Mexico fisheries area, including the fragile Flower Garden National Marine Sanctuary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coast Guard Air Station Houston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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