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Arctic Shield 2012 Arctic Shield 2012 was a multipronged USCG operation in the Alaskan Arctic during the summer of 2012, which included local outreach, oversight, and commercial shipping regulation as well as exercises designed to maximize the use of assets in forward operating locations. Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sycamore prepare for a spilled oil recovery system exercise during Arctic Shield 2012 near Barrow, Alaska. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Offcer Kelly Parker. Members of an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, give Alaska Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell (foreground) a tour of the helicopter hangar at Coast Guard Forward Operating Location Barrow. Coast Guard members from left: Petty Offcer Zach Painter, LT Mike Groncki, and LCDR Tom Combs. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Offcer Elizabeth H. Bordelon. Operational assets were moved to forward Arctic locations to ensure safety at the Bering Strait chokepoint and oil exploration zones in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, northwest of Barrow and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. As part of Arctic Shield 2012, the Coast Guard planned for a two-cutter presence in the Arctic, a seasonal air facility in Barrow operating with two MH-60 helicopters, and a parallel Coast Guard/Navy exercise to deploy a spilled oil recovery system at sea. Coast Guard personnel aboard Coast Guard Cutter Sycamore prepare the "Polar Bear" skimmer for an oil recovery exercise in the Arctic Ocean. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Offcer Kelly Parker. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, pose with a group of local high school students attending a presentation at Forward Operating Location Barrow. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Offcer Elizabeth H. Bordelon. 60 Proceedings Summer 2013 From left, Rear Admiral Thomas P. Ostebo and Vice Admiral Paul F. Zukunft address the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission in Point Hope, Alaska, as part of Arctic Shield 2012 outreach. U.S. Coast Guard photo by LT Sarah Morin. www.uscg.mil/proceedings