One year later, Coast Guard still lending helping hand to Haiti

by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tara Molle What would you do, if in less than a minute, everything you knew even your very livelihood just crumbled away? For the roughly 3.5 million people living in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, this nightmare was real. On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ripped through the heart of the city leaving nothing but a trail destruction in its wake. Within 24-hours Coast Guard...

Coast Guard Cutter Legare returns home to Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare are scheduled to return to their homeport of Portsmouth Saturday afternoon, following a 51-day deployment in support of Haitian relief operations.