Tidewater Musings reports that:
The Commandant taped a 30-minute interview today for C-SPAN’s Newsmakers program with Patricia Kime from the Navy Times and John Robinson from Defense Daily. This interview provides a rare opportunity for all Coast Guard members to hear directly from the Commandant on these important topics.
The program is schedule to air this Sunday, [...]
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Cost Guard Commandant to Appear on C-SPAN Sunday
Cutter Mackinaw Completes First Icebreaking Mission
MACKINAC STRAITS, Mich – USCGC Mackinaw escorted tugs James A. Hannah and Mary E. Hannah through the Mackinac Straits Wednesday, marking the first ice escort assignment in her history.
In preparation for the arrival of the Hannah tugs, Mackinaw groomed and widened a track from Round Island Passage, beneath the Mackinac Bridge to Lansing Shoal [...]
Cost Guard Terminates Fishing Vessel Voyage
FT. MYERS BEACH, Fla. – The Coast Guard terminated the voyage of the 62-foot commercial fishing vessel Melissa Lynn due to a safety violation, 13-miles west of Ft. Myers Beach, at 12:20 p.m. yesterday.
The Coast Guard Cutter Marlin, an 87-foot patrol boat home ported in Ft. Myers Beach, conducted a boarding of the Melissa Lynn [...]
Dauntless Returns from Patrol on Sunday
GALVESTON, Texas – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless is scheduled to arrive back in their homeport of Galveston Sunday morning, after traveling more than 7,000 miles during a 45-day law enforcement patrol through the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Florida Straits.
Dauntless’ crew spent the majority of the deployment patrolling the Florida [...]
Today in Coast Guard History – February 16th
1926- Congress authorized the Secretary of Treasury to acquire a site at New London, Connecticut, without cost to United States, and construct thereon buildings for the United States Coast Guard Academy at a total cost not to exceed $1,750,000.
1944- Justo Gonzalez became the first Hispanic-American to make the rank [...]