Coast Guard, partner agencies participate in Operation Patriot Sands

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Arthur Andrade lines up the boat and truck before loading them onto the Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo airplane during Operation Patriot Sands at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, Feb. 23, 2019. Coast Guard Photo by Ensign Phillip Atkinson.
MIAMI – Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team Miami, the Air Force, FBI, Miami Fire and Rescue and Urban...
Court-martialed Coast Guardsman sentenced to 8 months confinement, bad conduct discharge

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Coast Guardsman pled guilty Tuesday of drug charges and was sentenced that evening during a special court-martial in Miami.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Heather D. Hardy was sentenced to eight months confinement in a military brig, a bad conduct discharge, forfeiture of $1,010 pay per month for a total of eight months, and a reduction to paygrade E-1, the military’s lowest enlisted...