Commander of Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento, Calif., temporarily relieved of duty The commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento has been temporarily relieved of duty, five months after several crewmen died in a collision between one ...
Panama's Coast Guard on Friday plucked 1.6 tons of cocaine dumped overboard from a motorboat during a high-speed chase off the country's Caribbean coast, the border defense service said. The 42-meter (138-foot) launch "ended up grounded on Chiquita beach, up the coast ...
Two Marine aviators aboard a flaming F/A-18D reacted quickly enough to slow their jet so they could safely eject over the Atlantic Ocean, their commander said Thursday. Pilot Maj. Duane Litpak, 35, and weapons officer Capt. Jonathan Hutchison, 29, made it home ...
2 Marine Corps fighter pilots rescued off SC coast after jet goes down; Neither badly hurt Two Marine Corps fighter pilots have been rescued from the ocean off South Carolina after their aircraft went down. The U.S. Coast Guard says it was ...
Coast Guard: Polar Star icebreaker to be reactivated by 2013, after retrofit in Seattle After a $62 million overhaul, the Coast Guard will have its third icebeaker back in service in 2013, filling a critical need as the fleet takes on new ...
Former pilot Marguerite McCreery of Portsmouth, Va., center, looks on as former pilot and Margaret Gilman of Garden City, N.Y., right, greet her grandson U.S. Coast Guard Lt JG Bradley Clemons, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, following a ...
FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2010 file photo, a barge is seen making a large impact gash in the side of the Eagle Otome after the two vessels collided causing as much as 450,000 gallons of crude oil to spill, according ...
3 crew members on Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Utah return to home base in NC Three crew members aboard a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Utah last week have returned to their home base in Elizabeth City, N.C. The ...
Internal memo: Obama's pick to run Coast Guard wants to cut back on counterterrorism programs President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Coast Guard proposed major cuts to the agency's counterterrorism mission over the next five years. An internal November 2009 memo ...
This 2006 image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows President Obama's nominee to become Coast Guard commandant, Vice Admiral Robert Papp Jr. An internal memo from Vice Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., says that starting in 2012, he would slash funding ...
