Story by Petty Officer 1st Class LaNola Stone | U.S. Coast Guard District 1 PADET New York | 02.04.2017
By Petty Officer 1st Class LaNola Stone
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony Soto | U.S. Coast Guard Heartland District | 01.27.2017
Teamwork is an essential part of emergency response for the men and women of Coast Guard Sector Charleston, South Carolina. Between Myrtle Beach and Brunswick, Georgia, Coast Guard crews work hand in hand with local, state and other federal agencies to carry out their various missions. One such agency not only shares a common bond with the Coast Guard, it shares a name....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest District | 05.18.2015
Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotillas throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are celebrating National Safe Boating Week and urging all mariners to use safe boating practices, including consistent life jacket wear every time boaters are on the water....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 04.28.2014
A runaway 70-foot barge drifts aimlessly across Saginaw Bay near Kuiu Island, Alaska, and a call goes out for the Coast Guard to rein in the rogue raft before it can wreak ruin upon the waterway. Sector Juneau command center watchstanders dispatch the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa aided by information and photographs provided by a pair of seasoned mariners aboard a 25-foot Boston......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class William Colclough | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 | 08.06.2013
Blood is the color of hell. Noises, faces in the mist and the entrails of men wallpaper the psyche of those who walked point up a mountain and came down the other side of sanity. In the summer of 1970, Firebase Ripcord, was headquarters for the U.S. Army Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne located in a hardwood forest of scattered, felled and clustered trees wedged......
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Hill | U.S. Coast Guard East District | 05.29.2013
The Coast Guard conducted hoist training with Coast Guard cadets in the Pasquotank River, Wednesday.