Coast Guard Air Station Houston T-Shirt

United States Coast Guard Air Station Houston is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located 15 miles southeast of downtown Houston, Texas at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base. CGAS Air Station Houston's missions include Search and Rescue, Homeland Security, Fisheries Enforcement, Environmental Protection, and Military Sealift Command vessel escorts. The station's Area of Responsibility 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. 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.