CHARLESTON, S.C. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin is scheduled to return home following an eight-week deployment Friday at 2:24 p.m.
The 38-year-old cutter steamed over 10,000 miles in the Caribbean Sea with a primary focus on finding and stopping smugglers with drugs bound for United States shores. Gallatin also carried a [...]
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Gallatin Returning Home After 8 Week Deployment
Long Distance Medevac Off Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska – A long distance medevac is underway by the Coast Guard to assist the captain of a 751-foot bulk carrier more than 300 miles south of Sitka, Alaska.
At 4:23 p.m., the Coast Guard was contacted by the Rescue Coordination Center in Victoria, BC which received an e-mail requesting a medevac for the captain [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – February 15th
1911- Congress transferred Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut from the War Department to the Treasury Department for the use of the Revenue Cutter Service as its cadet training school.
1943- CGC Calypso removed 42 persons from lifeboat of SS Buarque (Brazil) east of Cape Henry.
1980- The 70-foot fishing vessel Donna Catalina sank 40 miles south of [...]