CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard assisted two people aboard a 44-foot fishing boat 25 miles east of Cape May after they lost steering Wednesday.
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Coast Guard crews searching for 3 near Cape May
CAPE MAY, N.J. – The Coast Guard is searching for three people after the 44-foot fishing boat they were aboard sank 20 miles east of Cape May Wednesday.
Coast Guardsmen honored at Station Tillamook Bay, Oregon
ASTORIA, Ore. — Coast Guard Medal recipients from the Pacific Northwest were honored during a memorial ceremony at Station Tillamook Bay, Ore., in Garibaldi, Ore., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
Coast Guard medevacs 43-year-old male near Galveston
HOUSTON – The Coast Guard medevaced a 43-year-old male from the motor vessel Sicily, 28 nautical miles southeast of Galveston, Wednesday.
Commandant and Secretary Napolitano honor Coast Guard veterans
They gathered today in a cold rain at Arlington Cemetery to remember our fallen Guardians. They met, as they do every year, on Coast Guard Hill, where many of the heroes and leaders of the Coast Guard have been laid to rest.
Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis returns to Honolulu after major drug bust, search and rescue case
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis is scheduled to arrive at the Coast Guard base on Sand Island Thursday at 9 a.m. While on patrol the Jarvis crew intercepted five tons of narcotics and were involved in the search for survivors of the mid-air collision of a Coast Guard C-130 airplane and a [...]
Little Red Flowers and Remembering Veterans
By Army Capt. Dayna Rowden, Multinational Division South, Iraq
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq – Ever wonder what the significance is of the little red flowers that the Veterans of Foreign Wars hand out? What are they and what do they mean? The answer to the first question is simple. They are poppies. [...]