KODIAK, Alaska – Not quite a knighthood but instead U.S. Coast Guard aviator Lt. Sean Krueger recently received a Royal award for leading a rescue mission in 2008 while on assignment with the British Navy.
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Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jet landing gear collapses during landing at Colorado airport
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – An HU-25 Falcon jet from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi suffered a collapsed nose landing gear while landing at Eagle County Regional Airport in Gypsum, Colo., Tuesday.
World’s most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker to arrive in Juneau on Wednesday
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, the world’s most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker, will moor at the South Franklin Pier in Juneau Wednesday and is scheduled to open for public tours Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Coast Guard responding to the report of two missing crab fishermen
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard is responding to the report of two missing crab fishermen near Bellingham, Washington.
Coast Guard locates lost Northern Michigan hunter
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City searched and located a lost 50-year-old hunter near Ruby Creek in Oceana County, Monday morning, after he failed to return to camp the previous night.
Columbia River and Tillamook Bay River Bars Closed
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Portland, Ore., has closed the Columbia River and Tillamook Bay, Ore., river bars Monday due to hazardous conditions.