This feature page contains imagery highlighting U.S. Customs and Border Protection's role in the preparation and execution of the construction of a border wall system along the southwest border of the United States.
USCENTCOM support to USAID Disaster Assistance relief to Lebanon following the Beirut port explosion.
Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron operations started as an experiment in 1998 to halt the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. Drug trafficking organizations primarily used “go-fast” boats, high-speed smuggling vessels capable of traveling over twice the speed of Coast Guard cutters. The Coast Guard needed a way to counter the threat.
In late 1998, six Coast Guard pilots...
U.S. Coast Guard response to 2020 Hurricane Season: Isaias (July - August), Laura (August - September), Marco (August), Sally (September), Delta (October), Zeta (October), Eta (November)
U.S. Coast Guard response to 2021 Hurricane Season
The Legend-class national security USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753) and crew conduct a historic deployment to Europe working with U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet, Allies, and partners. After departing North Charleston, South Carolina, on February 28, the crew of Hamilton stopped in Puerto Rico and then headed toward Rota, Spain, with two Sentinel-class fast response cutters, USCGC Charles Moulthrope (WPC 1141)...
USCGC Jeffrey Palazzo (WPC 1163) is named for Jeffrey Palazzo — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, New York City Fire Department firefighter assigned to Staten Island's elite Rescue Squad 5, and U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Machinery Technician 1st Class who gave his life on Sept. 11, 2001, responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
One of the 343 FDNY members who made the supreme...
USCGC Mohawk (WMEC 913) will conduct engagements, exchanges, exercises, and operations to enhance partner nations’ capabilities and capacities to operate effectively in the maritime domain and promote the U.S. as a partner of choice in Atlantic Africa.
