Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Release Maritime Strategy
Advantage at Sea
WASHINGTON ̶ The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard released a new tri-Service maritime strategy today, entitled Advantage at Sea.
The document provides strategic guidance on how the sea services will prevail in day-to-day competition, crisis, and conflict over the next decade. It also directs the services to deepen tri-service integration, aggressively pursue force modernization,...
Coast Guard to hold 10-year anniversary remembrance service for CG-1705 aircrew
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Coast Guard personnel in Sacramento are scheduled to host a remembrance service Tuesday on the 10th anniversary of an aircraft collision between a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft and a Marine Corps AH-1 Super Cobra helicopter.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Gautier, the 11th Coast Guard District commander is scheduled to preside over the ceremony.
While conducting a search...
Family of hero Marine awarded Gold Lifesaving Medal
Rear Adm. Dave Callahan, 8th Coast Guard District commander, presents the Gold Lifesaving Medal to the family of retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Rodney Buentello July 31, 2017, in San Antonio. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Grant DeVuyst.
SAN ANTONIO — The family of Marine Corps Master Sgt. Rodney Lee Buentello accepted the Gold Lifesaving Medal from Rear Adm. Dave Callahan,...
Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento holds remembrance ceremony for fallen Coast Guard, Marine Corps aircrew
A Coast Guard member, assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, kneels to places flowers around a memorial during a remembrance ceremony at Air Station Sacramento in McClellan Park, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart
MCCLELLAN PARK, Calif. — Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento personnel held a remembrance ceremony Saturday, honoring...
Coast Guard commissions U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos in San Juan
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Coast Guard commissioned into service the latest Fast Response Cutter, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos, during a ceremony at U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Juan Friday morning.
The Joseph Tezanos is the sixth fast response cutter to be homeported in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the 18th to be commissioned into the Coast Guard fleet, all of which serve within the Coast...
Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City crew honors memory of Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss
The centennial MH-65 Dolphin helicopter at Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Michigan, bears a Blue Angel style number 6 in honor of Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher M. Yaw)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The crew of Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City is honoring the memory of Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss, the pilot of U.S. Navy Blue Angel #6, by...
Coast Guard, partner agencies enter fourth day of search for 12 marine aviators off North Shore
A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew taxis for takeoff at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Air Station Barbers Point/Released)
HONOLULU — Search efforts continue Monday for 12 Marine aviators off the North Shore of Oahu.
Air, surface and shoreline assets are actively searching for the survivors and cataloging debris. Of the four life rafts confirmed...
Coast Guard, partner agencies enter third day of search for 12 marine aviators off North Shore
The crew of a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter (CG 6608) from Air Station Barbers Point conducts a brief prior to take off Jan. 17, 2016. The Dolphin crew relieved the night crew to conduct daytime searches for 12 Marine aviators off the North Shore of Oahu. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Sarah Bradley/Released)
HONOLULU — Search efforts continue Sunday for 12 missing Marine aviators off the...
Overlooked service
Lt. Jack Rittichier in front of an HH-52A prior to his deployment to Vietnam–another Coast Guard exchange pilot, LCDR Lonnie Mixon–is to Rittichier’s right
by Lt. Krystyn Pecora
Every day, dozens of military members, retirees and family members hurriedly pass through the doors of the administration building at the Coast Guard base in Portsmouth, Virginia. For most of these individuals,...
