HOMETOWN NEWS: Virginia-based Officer Candidates train aboard the Coast Guard...
*select photo for full size resolution* PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Two Coast Guard officer candidates from Virginia visited Yorktown aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle. The officer candidates and their...
View ArticleCoast Guard SPARs to visit Station Castle Hill, RI **Media Advisory**
WHO: Rosetta Furey Gillett Desrosiers and Evelyn Cohen, World War II Coast Guard SPARs. WHAT: Desrosiers, a Providence, Rhode Island, native and Cohen from Warwick, Rhode Island, will visit Coast...
View ArticleCoast Guard recruit training improved by new equipment
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Recruits at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May are now using a new stationary bike that is better aligned to support their training needs and requires less maintenance, which...
View ArticleSeattle Seahawks adopt Coast Guard 13th District
Master Chief Petty Officer Charles Lindsey (top right), command master chief of the Coast Guard 13th District, and Rear Adm. Richard Gromlich, commander of the Coast Guard 13th District, accept a...
View ArticleCoast Guard Rescues Man Without Lifejacket Near Marina Del Rey
SAN PEDRO, Calif. – The Coast Guard rescued a man from the water near Marina Del Rey, Calif., early Wednesday morning at about 12:24 a.m. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach watch standers...
View ArticleCoast Guard medevacs injured mariner 115 miles south of Dutch Harbor, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured 55-year-old man off the 738-foot Panama-flagged freight ship Lowlands Maine approximately 115 miles south of Dutch Harbor, Wednesday. A Coast...
View ArticleCoast Guard crew medevacs man 150 miles offshore
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 51-year-old man was medevaced from a 65-foot boat by the Coast Guard 150 miles northwest of Clearwater, Florida, Wednesday. Rescued was Randy Halloway. The operator of the...
View ArticleHawaii first responders take part in triennial oil and hazardous substance...
Editor's note: For high resolution images, click on the thumbnails above. HONOLULU — Federal, state and local first responders conducted the first part of a full scale response exercise at the...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues diver in distress off Kewalo Basin
HONOLULU — A diver is recovering after crewmembers aboard a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium from Coast Guard Station Honolulu rescued her approximately one mile south of Kewalo Basin Wednesday....
View ArticleCoast Guard Cutter Eagle to open for tours in Baltimore
WHO: Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, a 295-foot tall ship WHAT: The Eagle will be open for public tours during Star Spangled Spectacular events in Baltimore WHERE: Baltimore Inner Harbor, West Wall...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues owner and fishing boat in Chatham, Massachusetts. **photo...
BOSTON — The Coast Guard rescued a fisherman after being caught in the surf on the Chatham Bar in Chatham, Massachusetts, Wednesday. Watchstanders at Sector Southeast New England received a...
View ArticleCoast Guard Training Center Cape May holds 9/11 ceremony
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Members of U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May stopped to remember the anniversary of the Sept., 2001 attacks by holding a brief ceremony on the parade field, Sept. 11, 2014....
View ArticleMULTIMEDIA RELEASE: Coast Guard Station Cortez receives new life-saving boat
CORTEZ, Florida — Crewmembers at Coast Guard Station Cortez, Florida, tested new life-saving boats, Tuesday. The tests began after the station received two 29-foot Response Boat-Small II platforms in...
View ArticleCoast Guard, agency partners search for missing kayaker near Kasilof River,...
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and Alaska National Guard are searching for a missing 38-year-old man near Kasilof River, Wednesday. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage watchstanders...
View ArticleUPDATE: VIDEO RELEASE: Coast Guard medevacs man 150 miles offshore
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 51-year-old man was medevaced from a 65-foot boat by the Coast Guard 150 miles northwest of Clearwater, Florida, Wednesday. Rescued was Randy Halloway. The operator of the...
View ArticleCoast Guard participates in multiple Patriot Day ceremonies
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Local Coast Guardsmen will help surrounding communities in South Jersey remember the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by supporting several Patriots’ Day celebrations Thursday. Coast...
View Article45 Cuban migrants repatriated to Cuba
A Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless smallboat crew interdicts 25 Cuban migrants aboard a rustic vessel southwest of Key West, Florida, Sep. 6, 2011. The migrants were later repatriated by the crew aboard...
View ArticleMultimedia Release: Coast Guard crew returns to Seattle following 130 day...
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot polar icebreaker, returns home to Seattle after spending 130 days on a science deployment in the Bearing Sea, Chukchi Sea and Arctic Ocean, Sept. 11,...
View ArticleUpdate: Coast Guard, agency partners suspend search for missing kayaker near...
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard and Alaska State Troopers have suspended the search for a missing kayaker near Kalisof River, Thursday. The 38-year-old man was reported missing by his father...
View ArticleCoast Guard, Cape May fire departments teamwork saves swimmer in distress
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center’s Fire Department assisted Cape May City’s Fire Department, Thursday, responding to a report of a swimmer in distress 75 yards from...
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