Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Nicole Groll | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast District | 06.09.2023
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Coast Guard Station Sand Key, Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Pinellas County Sheriff, Pasco County Sheriff, Sarasota County Sheriff, Manatee County Sheriff, and Venice Police department marine units held a joint training exercise off Sand Key, Florida, June 7, 2023....
Story by Senior Chief Petty Officer Melissa Leake | U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area | 09.09.2022
The crew of the USCGC Tampa (WMEC 902) returned to their homeport in Portsmouth, Aug. 24, 2022, after a 56-day Caribbean Sea patrol. During the patrol, Tampa’s crew collaborated with 12 other Coast Guard cutters, numerous Coast Guard aircraft, and other Department of Homeland Security boats and aircraft to detect, deter, and intercept unsafe and illegal ventures to the United States. ...
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Nate Littlejohn | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 05.19.2022
Coast Guard Auxiliarist with special language skills serves as force multiplier in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing during Operation Blue Pacific....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Nate Littlejohn | U.S. Coast Guard Arctic | 05.19.2022
Coast Guard Auxiliarist with special language skills serves as force multiplier in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing during Operation Blue Pacific....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Coast Guard Heartland District | 07.09.2020
Lt j.g. Barnes & Dallman-Weiss set sights on summer 2021 Olympics
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast District | 09.26.2019
Legacy's Shadow: Rising Hearts from a Sunken Ship, is a story of a Purple Heart Medal being posthumously award to a Coast Guardsman killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918 during World War I aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa that was torpedoed while conducting a convoy escort in Bristol Channel. More than 100 years later members of the Coast Guard still remember and hold a ceremony in honor of......
Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Woodall | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast District | 11.28.2016
It was a quiet Sunday afternoon in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on May 21, 1944, when an explosion on a Landing Ship Tank that was loading ammunition set off a chain reaction that would continue to burn and cause subsequent explosions into the next day. Most of the crews in port were enjoying some well-earned Hawaii liberty; enjoying a break from the perils and deployments involved with the battle in......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Sabrina Clarke | U.S. Coast Guard Southeast District | 02.11.2014
The Coast Guard is warning about the dangers of illegal maritime migration after four people died off the South Florida coast Thursday....
