Coast Guard Port Security Unit conducts a casing of the colors ceremony
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan and Cmdr. James Lovenstein, Port Security Unit (PSU) 305’s commanding officer, roll the unit guidon as Master Chief Petty Officer Thomas Lepage, PSU 305’s command master chief, extends it during the unit’s casing of the colors decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, June 13, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer...
Coast Guard Cutter Stone returns home following 105-day patrol
USCGC Stone (WMSL 758) crew members tend to mooring lines during the cutter’s return to home port in North Charleston, South Carolina, April 23, 2023. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Riley Perkofski)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stone (WMSL 758) returned to their home port in North Charleston, Sunday, following a 105-day patrol in the South...
Homeland Security Task Force-Southeast hosts migration exercise
Members of Homeland Security Task Force – Southeast discuss, review and validate plans, procedures and capabilities during an exercise, at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Florida, Nov. 10, 2021. (Photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Stephen Caruso).
MIAMI — Homeland Security Task Force – Southeast held a three-day exercise, Monday through Wednesday, at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, to discuss, review...
Coast Guard, partner agencies continue to support Haiti
A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter rescue crew and lands after conducting a medical evacuation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Estrada)
MIAMI — The Coast Guard, USAID, U.S. Southern Command and Joint Task Force-Haiti continued to have unity of effort and respond to critically injured Haitian citizens, Tuesday, by transporting...
Coast Guard, Navy offload $211 million worth of cocaine, marijuana in San Diego
Members of Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 407 (LEDET) offloads 11,400 pounds of cocaine and 9,000 pounds of marijuana in San Diego, Feb. 1, 2021.(Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alex Gray)
SAN DIEGO – Coast Guard and Navy personnel offloaded approximately 11,400 pounds of cocaine and 9,000 pounds of marijuana Monday, amounting todd more than $211 million from seizures in international...
Coast Guard provides assistance after Hurricane Eta
A Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) MH-65 Dolphin aircrew forward deployed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca medevacs a Honduran near Puerto Lempira, Honduras Nov. 13, 2020. The Coast Guard is assisting in urgent search and rescue and redistribution of relief aid in Honduras affected by Hurricane Eta. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
PUERTO LEMPIRA, Honduras — A Coast Guard...
Coast Guard Cutter James seizes 3,350 lbs of marijuana off Central American
The Coast Guard Cutter James with its deployed 26-foot over-the-horizon cutter boat and a go-fast vessel interdicted off the Coast of Central America in mid-May 2020. U.S. Coast Guard photo
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The Coast Guard seized approximately 3,350 pounds of marijuana in mid-May with an estimated value of approximately $6 million from a go-fast vessel in international waters of the Pacific Ocean...
Coast Guard Cutter Stratton departs for Eastern Pacific counter-narcotic patrol
Coast Guard Cutter Stratton file photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Garrett Raitt
ALAMEDA, California – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL-752) got underway from Coast Guard Island Saturday for a months-long deployment to the Eastern Pacific Ocean, where the crew will patrol international waters off Central and South America to intercept and deter drug trafficking efforts.
The cutter...
Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returns to Key West from drug interdiction patrol
A cocaine smuggling vessel drifts in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean after being intercepted by the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Thetis November 16, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)
KEY WEST, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returned home Thursday to Key West, Florida, after completing a 79-day patrol throughout the Eastern Pacific Ocean in support of U.S. Southern...
