The Navy was working on Loran-B, but later gave up on it and took over an Air Force project with similar goals. In 1957, the Coast Guard took over both systems and named them Loran-A and Loran-C ...

as commanding officer of Coast Guard LORAN C Station Port Clarence Alaska, and as the program manager for the construction of a new class of inland Coast Guard buoy tenders.

On Wednesday, at least one C-27J from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command enjoyed a relatively low pass over a former LORAN radio navigational system site that now houses a U.S. Coast Guard ...