Story by Senior Chief Petty Officer Sarah Foster | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 03.09.2016
Coast Guard Cutter Valiant crew displays their cocaine seizure worth approximately $141 million during their 8-week Eastern Pacific patrol. Mayport, Florida-based Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returned home March 9, 2016. These counter-drug interdictions were carried out as part of Operation Martillo, an international operation focused on sharing information and bringing together air, land, and......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Coast Guard PADET Jacksonville | 01.29.2016
The United States Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton along with the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and the Navy League of the United States-Charleston Council held a commemoration ceremony aboard the cutter Jan. 29, 2016. The ceremony, held at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, was to honor the former Treasury-Class Cutter Alexander Hamilton, which was sunk by a German U-boat during......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania | 11.23.2015
The USCGC Sequoia (WLB 215) crew recently returned from a 13-day partnership-building patrol of the waters surrounding Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific Ocean, covering 2,358 miles....
Story by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 11.04.2015
Elements from Marine Aircraft Group 31 coordinated with the U.S. Coast Guard for a search and rescue exercise off the coast of Charleston Nov. 3. The exercise simulated the water rescue of two Marine pilots from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort....
Courtesy Story | Fleet Public Affairs Center San Diego | 06.16.2015
The U.S. Ambassador to Belize, Carlos Mareno, visited a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter here today as the maritime phase of the annual Tradewinds exercise began....
Story by Lt. Scott Carr | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania | 06.12.2015
Lt. Cmdr. Brendan Harris, a native of Somers, Connecticut, relieved Cmdr. Steven Ramassini, a native of Pittsburgh, of command of USCGC Kukui (WLB-203) during a ceremony held at Coast Guard Base Honolulu, June 12....
Story by Lt. Donnie Brzuska | U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area | 04.11.2015
A local Coast Guard crew is scheduled to return to Port Angeles Sunday afternoon after they seized more than $17 million worth of illegal narcotics during an 88-day deployment....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tara Molle | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania | 02.05.2015
We know more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than we do about the ocean’s seafloor. With water encompassing 63.78 million square miles, the oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, with the world’s largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean, covering roughly one third. The Pacific also boasts the deepest trenches, specifically Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near the......
