HARTFORD, CONN. – Senior Jeff Prebeck led all scorers with 24 points to go with his game-high 10 rebounds while junior Craig Johnson sank a pair of free throws with 3.8 seconds left to ice the game as Coast Guard set a single-season record for wins and won its first ever NCAA Tournament first round [...]
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Petty Officer charged with violations under the UCMJ
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Petty Officer 1st Class Wilson Medina, a gunner’s mate at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, has been charged with violating two punitive articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The specific charges include one count of abusive sexual contact and one count of forcible sodomy. [...]
Coast Guard to offload $52 Million in Drugs
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Coast Guard cutter will offload approximately 1,600 pounds of cocaine and turn over six suspected smugglers to federal agents for prosecution Friday at 9 a.m. at Naval Station Mayport, Fla.
The crew of the Cutter Forward located the illegal narcotics in a hidden compartment aboard the Honduran fishing vessel Miss Alyssa Feb. [...]
Dept. of Ecology, Coast Guard tracking canisters found on ocean beaches
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and Coast Guard are at Ocean Shores, Wash., today trying to track down the location of mysterious one-liter canisters that have been showing up on shorelines.
According to reports from local residents, these silver-colored containers with red or white plastic caps have been spotted on the beaches since [...]
Coast Guard Searching for Missing Diver
CHARLESTON, S.C., – The Coast Guard is searching for a missing diver approximately 62-miles east of St. Simons Island, Ga., Thursday evening.
Three adult males were diving from a 29-foot boat when one of the men disappeared. One of the remaining men then contacted the Coast Guard and requested assistance at approximately 4:30 p.m.
A helicopter crew [...]
Coast Guard Team Teaches Port Security to Zambian Personnel
Vince Crawley
U.S. Africa Command Public Affairs
LUSAKA, Zambia During a late-Febuary course here, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Tobias Dodgen pretended to be a suspicious traveler who claimed he accidently drove up to a government installation while searching for wildlife to photograph.
The students, a mixture of Zambian military personnel, police and security forces, halted Dodgen’s Toyota [...]
Coast Guard Falcon Makes Emergency Landing in Indiana
A U.S. Coast Guard Falcon jet landed safely after circling the Purdue University airport for about an hour this afternoon.The plane had been trying to burn off fuel before attempting a landing with what pilots thought might be damaged landing gear.
The plane, had three people on board, according to Betty Stansbury, Purdue airport director. The [...]