Trent Smith, a small unmanned aircraft systems operator from Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command supporting the University of Alaska – Fairbanks, performs the first ever Coast Guard operational UAS launch from Arctic Ocean ice Sept. 13, 2013

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Trent Smith, a small unmanned aircraft systems operator from Headquarters Air Force Special Operations Command supporting the University of Alaska – Fairbanks, performs the first ever Coast Guard operational UAS launch from Arctic Ocean ice Sept. 13, 2013. The SUAS operators, along with four other cutting-edge technologies teams, participated in the Coast Guard Research and Development Center’s simulated oil spill response exercise aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy.

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