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Press Release | April 11, 2025

Photo Release: Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater: AMT2 Brian Skinner

Public Affairs Detachment Tampa Bay - 305-965-4672

Editor's note: All Coast Guard Southeast imagery can be found on DVIDS, here.  

CLEARWATER, Fla. — U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian Skinner, an aviation maintenance technician at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, completes heavy maintenance on an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida, April 9, 2025. Skinner, a California native, followed his family’s military service tradition and joined the Coast Guard to help save lives.

Skinner is on the Heavy Maintenance Team. This team of technicians who specialize in performing in-depth maintenance, such as engine swaps and rotor blade replacements, cycles every 200-1200 hours on the six MH-60 Jayhawks they’re responsible for. The work Skinner and the HMT do is critical to the Seventh Coast Guard District's missions of search and rescue, ports, waterways & coastal security, drug interdiction, alien migrant interdiction, and law enforcement.

Skinner offered a word of advice for those wanting to join the Coast Guard.

“You gotta want it,” said Skinner. “Stay in shape and learn to love helping people around you. A positive mental attitude is a must and treat everyone like a friend, you never know who you might end up working with or for!”

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