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Ken Smith’s Coast Guard Follies Recalls 1950s-era Military Service
We look back on the Fifties with nostalgic fondness as the era of Elvis and rock ‘n’ roll, poodle skirts, the postwar boom and a peaceful interlude before the storm of the 1960s in American life.
But it wasn’t always a peaceful decade. The Korean War raged [...]
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Coast Guard rescues 2 kayakers near Galveston Jetties
HOUSTON – Coast Guard crews rescued two men from a swamped kayak near the Galveston Jetties, today.
The Coast Guard watchstander at Sector Houston-Galveston received a call from a Galveston County Deputy Sheriff at 12:11 p.m. The Deputy Sheriff reported that they had received a call from a kayaker located 200 yards east of Galveston’s East [...]
Coast Guard Airlifts 35,000 Pounds of Emergency Supplies to SoCal
ALAMEDA, Calif. –. – Crews from Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento began a second emergency airlift to the victims of the Southern California wildfires with an additional 15,000 pounds of blankets, portable beds and other emergency supplies at noon today.
Crews began flying at 1 a.m., carrying more than 20,000 pounds of emergency supplies to the [...]
Man Pleads Guilty to Illegally Importing and Harvesting Coral
MIAMI – A Lake Park, Fla., man pled guilty in Federal District Court in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday to charges of illegal importation of approximately 500 pounds of live rock, coral, and sea fans illegally harvested from Bahamian waters in Oct. 2002.
Lawrence W. Beckman, 57, faces a possible statutory maximum sentence of up to [...]
Coast Guard Searching for 78 Year Old Man
CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. – The Coast Guard, along with state and local agencies, is searching for a 78-year-old man who was reported missing from his vessel in the Crystal River Barge Canal near Crystal River, Fla., today.
The Coast Guard received a call at 10:32 a.m. today from a Good Samaritan stating that he had located [...]
Coast Gurad Delivers Disaster Response Equipment to SoCal Residents
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Crews from Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento are currently delivering thousands of pounds of disaster response gear to the victims of the Southern California wildfires.Crews began flying at 1 a.m. carrying more than 20,000 pounds of blankets and portable beds to the San Diego area in a joint mission with the Federal [...]