The Pentagon Channel’s Around the Services presents School of Force.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Adam Eggers visits the Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Enforcement Academy in Charleston, S.C.
This is part three of a four part series
Posts on ‘February 6th, 2008’
School of Force Part 3
Medical Helicopter Crash Update
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Joint effort by the Coast Guard and other federal, state and local agencies resulted in the recovery of all three bodies from the AirCare 1 Eurocopter crash that occurred on February 5, 2008 in the Laguna Madre, 5 miles North West of the Queen Isabella Causeway.
The Coast Guard and supporting agencies [...]
Coast Guard Repatriates 58 Cubans
MIAMI – The Coast Guard Cutter Pea Island repatriated 58 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Wednesday, the migrants were interdicted during two separate incidents since Saturday.
A C-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft, from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., while conducting a law enforcement patrol, located a disabled go-fast vessel Sunday, 90 miles southeast of [...]
Coast Guard Commandant visits Harvard and MIT
BOSTON – The U.S. Coast Guard’s top leader visited Boston today to speak to local Coast Guard members and college students.
Adm. Thad Allen’s first stop was the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command, Boston where he met with a crew of Boston-based Coast Guard members and spoke about organizational changes and development within the Coast Guard.
He [...]
Coast Guard Adapts Fido Scout for Explosives Detection in Maritime Settings
WASHINGTON, – ICx Technologies announced today that its ultra-sensitive and light Fido explosives detector has been adapted by the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety and Security Teams (MSST) for wide-area explosives detection in harsh, maritime environments; it will be known as the Fido Scout.
ICx developed Fido Scout under the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency [...]
7th Coast Guard District Commander to Receive Dominican Naval decoration
Dominican Today reports that the 7th District Commander is receiving the Order of Naval Merit from the Dominican military.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The commander of the Miami-based U.S. 7th Coast Guard District Rear Admiral David W. Kunkel, arrives in the country today Wednesday, to meet with senior Dominican military commanders and the heads of the agencies [...]
Coast Guard Updates Tampa Bay Security Zones
TAMPA, Fla. – The U.S. Coast Guard has recently published updated Tampa Bay Security Zones. Revisions have been made to the previously existing zones that were originally established in 2003.
Changes made were based on information gained by using the newly-developed Maritime Security Risk Analysis (MSRAM) tool utilized by the Tampa Bay Area Maritime Security [...]