KODIAK, Alaska - On Thursday an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak landed on a narrow frozen mountain ridge to honor six Coast Guardsmen killed in a helicopter crash 20 years ago.

On Nov. 2, 1986 a Coast Guard HH-3F Pelican helicopter was launched to conduct a medevac from Akhiok on the southwestern end of Kodiak Island.  Thirty minutes after departing the helicopter crashed into a mountain on Ugak Island south of Kodiak City.

The flight crew consisted of Lt. Michael Dollahite, Lt. Robert Carson, Jr., Cmdr. David Rockmore, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin McCracken, Petty Officer 3rd Class William Kemp and Petty Officer 3rd Class Ralph King.  The Coast Guard Integrated Support Command Kodiak's Rockmore-King Clinic is named after Rockmore and King who were the flight surgeon and corpsman killed in the crash.

On Thursday Members of Coast Guard Base Kodiak returned to the crash site on Ugak Island with a wreath to honor those who lost their lives in the crash.  For those filling the same roles 20 years later, the accident is a reminder of the seriousness of their job.

"Every time I fly flight surgeon duty in the middle of the night this crash isn't far from my mind," said Capt. Brent Pennington, a medical doctor with the Integrated Support Command Kodiak's Rockmore-King Clinic.  "I tell this story to the younger corpsmen in the flight program as a teaching tool to remind them that what we do is inherently dangerous."

Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak conducts about 200 flights each year in response to calls for help.