111110-G-TM873-558-C130 Overflight of Western Alaska villages

BERING SEA - An Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules aircrew conducts a fly over of Scammon Bay during a survey flight of more than 15 villages along the western coast of Alaska Nov. 10, 2011. Without shore-fast ice along the coast the villages are at risk of coastal erosion and damage from storm surges created by a recent severe storm. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally.