JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard received a report of a person missing from a capsized canoe less than a half a mile southwest from Kake, Alaska, at 1:13 p.m. Monday. A second person onboard the canoe at the time it capsized was able to swim to shore and make an initial report to [...]
Posts on ‘February 23rd, 2009’
Letter to Admiral Allen Regarding Disturbing Report About Coast Guard Civil Rights Programs
PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D.C. — Below is the text of a letter to Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, from Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, in response to the release of an independent review of the Coast Guard’s Office of Civil Rights [...]
Coast Guard Strike Team Assists EPA in Contaminated River Cleanup
Two members of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Strike Team are working with the Environmental Protection Agency by collecting soil samples in contaminated portions of the Passaic River in Newark, N.J., Monday.
Coast Guard Strike Team Ready to Respond at Presidential Speech
Five members of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Strike Team are assisting Coast Guard Sector Baltimore in air monitoring in the Washington, D.C. area during the Presidential speech Tuesday.
Commander Keith Willis Receives Final Military Honors in Suffolk, Virginia
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard commanding officer Keith Willis, who died Feb. 13 in Kittery, Maine, was given final military honors in Portsmouth, Va., Monday during a funeral celebration of his life.
MSU Galveston oversees lightering of grounded tank ship
GALVESTON, Texas – Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Galveston is overseeing lightering operations, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in an attempt to free the 800-foot tank ship Yasa Golden Dardanelles, which is grounded 22 miles off the Galveston coast.
Coast Guard suspends search for overboard Army soldier
DRUM INLET, N.C. – The Coast Guard suspended the search today for an overboard crewmember of the Army vessel Major General Winfield Scott off the coast of Drum Inlet, south of Ocracoke Inlet.