Glacier (WAGB 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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Captain Hewel is married to the former Roxie McMahon of Morgantown. NC and has two grown children, John and Lisa. He has had many varied and demanding assignments since joining the Coast Guard. Some of the more interesting and challenging include CO Coast Guard Loran Station Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands, XO USCGC MESQUITE, CO USCGC BASSWOOD, CO USCGC NORTHWIND, and XO USCGC GLACIER. He has also served as Chief, Ice Operations and Chief Marine Science Division. A veteran of several Artie and Anarctic deployments, he is well qualified to lead the crew of GLACIER on this expedition. CAPTAIN WILLIAM P. HEWEL GLACIER is a great ship, for over 20 years, starting with Deep Freeze I, GLACIER was the United States most powerful icebreaker and the mainstay of our Antarctic program. I feel even today GLACIER is the premier command in the Coast Guard, an effective and dependable polar veteran with exceptional science support facilities and the largest personnel complement of any cutter. And this crew may also be the most talented and hardest working that I ' ve ever had the p rivilege of serving with. This deployment has been, for all hands, the culmination of a lot of hard work, living with inconvenience, and learning by doing. During refresher training it became apparent that we had the necessary professionalism, leadership and spirit. I was excited to see our many capable individuals mold themselves into effective shipboard teams. Now this Antarctic deployment has provided the proper seasoning and esprit de corps. I ' ll never forget the pride I felt when one of the veteran scientist told me that he ' d been on many oceanographic vessels, but had never experienced the friendliness and cooperation that he had experienced on GLACIER. Definite Olympic material Welcoming Admiral Schubert on our return to Long Beach

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For 27 of the past 30 years GLACIER ' S mission has been to support the scientific colonies expeditions in the Antarctic regions. For most of those years GLACIER met or exceeded all expectations. DF 85 was no exception. Big Red successfully completed every one of her assigned missions. The degree of success for most of the goals left the scientists on board ecstatic. The accomplishments of DF 85 are the reflection of the drive determination of the crew to get the job done. They are all the more admirable significant in that they followed hard on the heels of a very demanding Major Maintenance Availability; and immediately followed a mentally and physically exhausting Refresher training. This year GLACIER was charged with helping find rookeries and determine population densities of several species of birds in the Antarctic Penninsula area - and searching tor Krill in the same area. These completed, GLACIER began seismic, coring, and diatom studies from the South Orl ney islands in the South Atlantic ocean all the way to the South end of Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen sea. This marked the first time in history any vessel had made it to the south end of Pine Island Bay. An additional benefit for the scientists came when 2 people from GLACIER became the only humans ever to set foot on Pine Island glacier at the south end of the bay. Completion of work in the ice did not mean completion of our mission. Enroute home we had 2 more tasks to complete. Air water samples were taken at intervals from Punta Arenas, Chile to Panama checking on the levels of Radioactivity. From Fortaleza, Brazil to Puerto Vallarto, Mexico GLACIER conducted transit and active Law Enforcement patrols working actively with the Panamanian Costa Rican governments. The patrol results included over 100 sighting reports and three boardings. When GLACIER made her triumphant return to Long Beach on April 5. 1985, with one of the most successful Deep Freezes ever under her belt, the crew could still not relax. For they had to get families household goods vehicles ready tor the move of homeports to Portland, Oregon. Though the 27,000-odd-mile journey at times seemed long and arduous - it was completed in an enthusiastic vein - an air of mission accomplished pervaded the minds and could be seen in the eyes of all on board even before a particular task was undertaken. We knew we would succeed where others had not -would meet all challenges no matter the odds. The words can ' t and maybe were nearly non-existent on board GLACIER in Deep Freeze 85. ■-■. -S.-. V.V.-S.. ' ' 1 ■■■ r x ' «.

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LCDR PAUL L. HAGSTROM LCDR Hagstrom came to the GLACIER In ttie summer of 1984 during the MMA period. He came from the Eighth District where he was Chief of the Naval Engineering Branch. Three afloat tours, graduate school and a spell at Headquarters round out his Coast Guard career. Deep Freeze ' 85 marked his first Anarctic deployment. The Commander resides in Irvine, CA with his wife Cathy and his children Christine and Jeffrey. He has been selected for Commander and will be promoted In the summer of 1985. This crew has exceeded all reasonable expectations In preparing for and completing our participation in Deep Freeze ' 85. Having accomplished so much with a newly formed crew, the possibilities for Deep Freeze ' 86 appear to be endless. We should all be proud of our contributions to returning Big Red to polar service. i»jiniii Is it really all that serious J Hey Buddy. Where can I get a suit like that?