by LT Dave French
This year’s annual Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival is over, but one of the most important events every year is the National Memorial Service held in Escanaba Park to honor the Coast Guard men and women who passed in the line of duty during the previous year.
This year the public, the Coast [...]
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A true celebration of Coast Guard life & service
Coast Guard responds to two vessels aground near Santa Cruz Island
OXNARD, Calif. — The Coast Guard has responded to a distress call received this morning from two sailing vessels soft aground in Pelican Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Calif.
Coast Guard finds weapon, drugs on felon’s boat in Oak Island, N.C.
SOUTHPORT, N.C. – The Coast Guard found an illegal firearm, ammunition, and illegal drugs in a grounded fishing vessel and assisted local law enforcement officers with taking the vessel’s owner into custody near the Southport Harbor marina Wednesday night.
Coast Guard medically evacuates woman form sailboat
LORAIN, Ohio – U.S. Coast Guard Station Lorain medically evacuated a 27-year-old female with nausea from a 35-foot sailboat approximately 12 miles northwest of Lorain Harbor Thursday at approximately 3:30 p.m.
Coast Guard medically evacuates crewman from Canadian tanker
CLEVELAND – U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit medically evacuated a 51-year-old crewman experiencing stroke-like symptoms aboard a Canadian cargo tanker in the Western Basin of Lake Erie approximately 27 nautical miles offshore Cleveland Thursday at approximately 1:30 p.m.
Coast Guard medically evacuates man with head injury
HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. – U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City medically evacuated a male in his 30’s with a significant head injury from a 28-foot Catalina 15 miles west of Little Traverse Bay Thursday at approximately 11:15 a.m.
“What a Ride” an Interview with a Command Master Chief
By Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Evanson, Public Affairs Detachment Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Summer can be a chaotic time in the Coast Guard. Search and rescue cases elevate in frequency, and transfer season is in full bloom as the shift of power and responsibility from seasoned experience to raw potential changes hands. At Coast Guard [...]