Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen released Coast Guard Publication 1,U.S. Coast Guard: America’s Maritime Guardian (Pub 1) today. The following is from the Letter of Promulgation.
For over two centuries the U. S. Coast Guard has safeguarded our Nation’s maritime interests in the heartland, in the ports, at sea, and around the [...]
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Coast Guard Commandant Issues Publication 1
U.S. Coast Guard stresses hurricane awareness
HONOLULU — The Coast Guard is urging all mariners to practice safe boating and be prepared for the 2009 hurricane season, which begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30.
Coast Guard suspends search for missing Mississippi boater
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard suspended its search a 4:15 p.m. today, for a boater who went missing after his 21-foot pleasure craft capsized with five people aboard, Monday, in Dog Keys Pass, approximately three miles west of Horn Island, Miss.
Cutter Bear returns to Portsmouth after cocaine seizure
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear is scheduled to return to their homeport in Portsmouth Wednesday folowing a 45 day Caribbean patrol.
While patrolling in the Caribbean Sea under the direction of Joint Interagency Task Force South the crew was actively engaged in stemming the flow of illegal narcotics.
Coast Guard medevacs man 100 miles off the Corpus Christi coast
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Coast Guard medevaced a 39-year-old man from a charter fishing boat 100 miles east of Corpus Christi last night.
Defense Department Launches Official Military Blogging Platform
WASHINGTON – The Defense Department has unveiled “DoDLive,” a centrally linked and unified platform from which services can create and maintain blogs.
“This blogging tool allows all branches of the military an opportunity to establish an official blog about their command, organization or unit,” said Brian Natwick, acting director of the Defense Media Activity’s emerging media [...]
State police divers locate body believed to be missing diver
BOSTON – After a 96-hour multi-agency search covering 524 square nautical miles, Massachusetts State Police divers located a body today which they believe is the diver who went missing about a half mile south of Gloucester, Mass., Monday afternoon.