Coast Guard Port Security Unit returns home after 9-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
A Coast Guardsmen, who is assigned to Port Security Unit 309, hugs his family upon arrival on July 29, 2018. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Emaia Rise
PORT CLINTON, Ohio – Members from Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309 returned to Port Clinton, Saturday, July 29, following a nine-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
During their...
Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309 Deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Members from Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309 board a plane at Mansfield Lahn Air National Guard Base in Mansfield, Ohio, Oct. 25, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Steenson).
PORT CLINTON, Ohio – Service members from Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309, based in Port Clinton, deployed Oct. 25 from Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support...
Coast Guard honors top enlisted servicemembers for 2015
The Coast Guard’s 2015 Enlisted Persons of the Year pose for a photo with the commandant of the Coast Guard, master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard, and several former EPOY. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Nick Ameen
WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard’s senior-most leaders formally recognized the service’s top enlisted members during the 2015 Coast Guard Enlisted...
Coast Guard rescues 2 people, 2 dogs from sinking vessel near Middle Bass Island in Lake Erie
CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard rescued two people and two dogs from a 33-foot pleasure craft on the northeast side of Middle Bass Island in Lake Erie, after the vessel hit rocky bottom and began taking on water Sunday morning.
Just after 9:30 a.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Detroit were notified via VHF-FM channel 16 that a vessel with two people and two dogs aboard had hit rocky bottom and...
Coast Guard Reserve, active-duty rescue crews respond to boat fire on Lake Erie
CLEVELAND — Coast Guard boatcrews rescued two adult men from a boat that caught fire on Lake Erie off the shore of West Harbor, Ohio, Wednesday afternoon.
At 3:27 p.m., a search-and-rescue-coordinator at Coast Guard Sector Detroit received a call from a good Samaritan boater who reported that a boat was on fire with two people aboard. The good Samaritan called the Coast Guard via cell phone.
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