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View ArticleLocal Coast Guard employee recognized for inspirational leadership
Editor's Note: Please note there was an error in the date in the below cutline. This copy has been corrected. CAPE MAY, N.J. - Mr. George Noblit poses in the Machine Shop aboard Coast Guard Training...
View ArticleCoast Guard responds to allision, oil spill south of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard is responding to a report of an allision between a tug pushing a barge and a pipeline near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans, Tuesday. Coast Guard Sector New...
View ArticleUPDATE: Coast Guard responds to allision, oil spill south of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard continues to respond to a report of an allision between a tug pushing a barge resulting in a pipeline fire near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans, Wednesday. ES...
View ArticlePHOTO RELEASE: Coast Guard Auxiliary teaches children about boating safety at...
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Frank J. Toal, a local Coast Guard Auxiliary member and his son, Ian, preformed a boating safety demonstration for the children at Cornerstone Preschool in Clearwater, Wednesday....
View ArticleUPDATE 2: Coast Guard responds to allision, pipeline fire south of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Responders continued to monitor and prepare salvage, firefighting and pollution contingencies for a tug and barge that allided with a pipeline near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New...
View ArticleCoast Guard, Navy team seize cocaine shipment
ARLINGTON, Va. — A Miami-based U. S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment and the crew of USS Gary (FFG-51) stopped a go-fast carrying more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine approximately 300 miles off...
View ArticleCoast Guard Cutter to receive new commanding officer
ALAMEDA, Calif. - A Change of Command Ceremony is scheduled aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf at Coast Guard Island, Friday, March 15, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. During the ceremony Capt. Mark A....
View ArticleUPDATE 3: Coast Guard responds to allision, pipeline fire south of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Response operations continue for a tug and barge that allided with a pipeline near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans Thursday. The Coast Guard is conducting a full investigation...
View ArticlePHOTOs: Cleveland based Coast Guard Chief's mess thanks VFW Post 3345
Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Holling, chief-of-the-mess of the Coast Guard's Cleveland-Area Chiefs Mess, speaks to members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3345 during a meeting at the...
View ArticleCoast Guard medevaces young child from Catalina Island
SAN PEDRO, Calif. – The Coast Guard medevaced a 4-year-old boy who was experiencing severe respiratory problems from Catalina Island, Calif., early Friday morning just after midnight. The Coast Guard...
View ArticleUPDATE 4: Salvage and firefighting operations continue
NEW ORLEANS — Response operations continue for a tug and barge that allided with a pipeline near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans Friday. Chevron has begun flaring the pipeline. As the...
View ArticleCoast Guard medevacs crewman near Kodiak, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak medevaced a crewman who was exhibiting symptoms of hypothermia from the fishing vessel Stella in Shelikof Strait...
View ArticleVIDEO AVAILABLE: Coast Guard launches for second Catalina Island medevac
SAN PEDRO, Calif. – The Coast Guard medevaced a 45-year-old man who was suffering from seizures and Peptic ulcers from Catalina Island, Calif., late Friday morning. This is the second medevac from...
View Article**PHOTO RELEASE** Coast Guard cutter receives new commanding officer
ALAMEDA, Calif. - A change-of-command ceremony, in which Capt. Mark A. Frankford assumed the duties and responsibilities as commanding officer of cutter Bertholf from Capt. Thomas E. Crabbs, took...
View ArticlePhoto Release: 17th District chief of prevention retires
Capt. Adam Shaw, chief of prevention, Coast Guard 17th District, receives an American flag during his retirement ceremony from Capt. Greg Sanial, chief of response, 17th District, at the Juneau,...
View ArticleUPDATE 5: Lightering operations completed, flaring operations continue
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard and assisting agencies continue response operations for a tug and barge that allided with a pipeline near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans Friday.After the barge...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 3 boaters 28 miles offshore
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — The Coast Guard rescued three people from a disabled sailing vessel with damaged sails 28 miles east of the St. Johns River early Saturday morning. Watchstanders at Coast Guard...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescue crews assist fishing vessel in distress
BOSTON — Rescue crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba, a 270-foot Medium Endurance Cutter homeported in Boston assisted a fishing vessel in distress approximately 72 nautical miles east of...
View ArticleVideo Release: Coast Guard medevacs crewman near Kodiak, Alaska
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak hoists a 35-year-old hypothermic crewman from the deck of the 58-foot Kodiak-based fishing vessel Stella in Shelikof Strait, Alaska,...
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