Coast Guard, local, state agencies conduct joint strike force operation
BOSTON – The Coast Guard participated in a multi-agency strike force operation at Connelly Pier in Boston, Thursday.
The operation helped enhance the safe movement of cargo and to deter and detect contraband moving through the port of Boston.
The joint operation’s goal was to facilitate commerce while ensuring container regulatory compliance, identifying undeclared hazardous materials,...
Coast Guard groundbreaking ceremony recogizes new support facility
HONOLULU — Representatives from the 14th Coast Guard District, Coast Guard Base Honolulu and Mortenson Federal Contracting Group participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new building at Coast Guard Base Honolulu to support the 2017 arrival of the Coast Guard’s new Fast Response Cutters, Wednesday.
Remarks were presented by Capt. Patrick McElligatt, Coast Guard Base...
Coast Guard Cutter Active seizes more than a ton of cocaine in Eastern Pacific Ocean
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Active seized an estimated 2,300 pounds of cocaine, worth approximately $37 million, in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean some 140 miles off the coast of Panama late last month.
Active, home ported in Port Angeles, Wash., was on routine patrol in the region when it was directed to intercept a suspicious Panamanian fishing vessel...
Coast Guard, Air Force, Air National Guard, Alaska State Troopers rescue boater near Anchorage, Alaska
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard, Air Force, Alaska Air National Guard and the Alaska State Troopers partnered to rescue a man in a deflating raft in Cook Inlet between Fire Island and Kincaid Park Tuesday night.
211th Rescue Squadron Alaska Air National Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane and 210th Rescue Squadron Alaska Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter crews arrived on scene first, deployed...
Coast Guard Pacific Area receives new commander
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Vice Adm. Charles W. Ray relieved Vice Adm. Paul F. Zukunft as Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area and Coast Guard Defense Forces West, in a change of command ceremony at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., April 22, 2014.
“This is not a transition, this is a continuity of leadership,” said Zukunft. “Just as the ceremony we observe today is a continuity of leadership,...
Coast Guard Admiral says farwell to the citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area
To the citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area,
I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the communities of Alameda, Oakland and San Francisco. My wife and I have called the Bay Area home for the past two years, and have been honored to call you all our neighbors while serving as the Coast Guard’s Pacific Area Commander.
These communities have embraced my family just as they have embraced all...
Coast Guardsman gets confinement, bad conduct discharge for sexual assault conviction
NEW ORLEANS — A Coast Guardsman was convicted and sentenced Friday during a general court-martial held in New Orleans.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Joe D. Newmans, 22, was sentenced to 90 days confinement, reduction to E-1 (the lowest enlisted paygrade), and a bad conduct discharge.
Newmans was convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice of two specifications of Article 120 (sexual assault)...
Coast Guard to host STEM event for local schools in Portsmouth, VA
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Coast Guard personnel from various units in the Hampton Roads region are scheduled to host a science, technology, engineering and math event at Coast Guard Base Portsmouth, Wednesday.
Approximately 100 students from Woodrow Wilson High School, Alliance Christian Academy and public home schools will rotate between four stations, including tours of Coast Guard cutters and discussions...
Video – Coast Guard medevacs 3 injured men from vessel 200 miles south of Kodiak, Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard safely medevaced three injured men from a vessel approximately 200 miles south of Kodiak Monday.
Two Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews hoisted the men from the 587-foot motor vessel Copacabana and transported them to Kodiak to meet commercial medical flight services who flew the men to higher level medical care in Anchorage. An HC-130 Hercules...
