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Coast Guard Teams Up with USS Chafee and Philippine Navy for Security Training

By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Brian Brannon
Task Group 73.5 Public Affairs
CEBU STRAITS, Philippines NNS — A team of Philippine Navy and U.S. Coast Guard personnel participated in a simulated visit, board, search and seizure VBSS mission May 25 aboard the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee DDG 90 as part of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and [...]

U.S., Japan Guardians join forces for search and rescue exercise

Crews from the U.S. and Japan Coast Guard completed a rare but important multi-agency training exercise on the island of Oahu May 26. The exercise simulated the interaction between the two services during a rescue at sea and offered both agencies the opportunity to familiarize themselves with their counterparts’ operating procedures.

Coast Guard to host Big Brothers Big Sisters event in Portland, Ore.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Coast Guard Sector Portland will host an event for the Columbia Northwest and Hood River Chapters of the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization Saturday.

Coast Guard assists sinking catamaran in Chesapeake, Va.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Coast Guard rescue boat crew from Station Portsmouth assisted two adults, three children and a dog aboard a catamaran taking on water near the Deep Creek Locks in Chesapeake Thursday afternoon.

Coast Guard asks for help as aids to navigation are vandalized in Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard has set numerous seasonal aids to navigation, including the Mendenhall Bar and Holkahm Bay buoys, to aid mariners in safely navigating the waterways.

Coast Guard Port Security Unit 305 to return home Sunday

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard invites media to attend the homecoming for members of Port Security Unit 305 at 2 p.m. Sunday at Fort Eustis, Va., following their six-month deployment with Joint Task Force Guantanamo at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Coast Guard medevacs two after explosion on offshore supply vessel

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard medevaced two crewmembers from an offshore supply vessel, aprroximately 15 miles south of Atchafalaya Bay, La., today.