Coast Guard news stories

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  Coast Guardsman to be confined after admitting Hawaii desertion

  A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains. A military judge sentenced him to more than six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge.

  22:30 May 21, 2013
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  Coast Guard, PETA continue to spar over 'goat camp'

  A Coast Guard investigation into the March 2012 "live tissue training" session has concluded there was no misconduct by its personnel, but "the controversial nature of LTT" — as the military calls it — demands a search for alternatives.

  02:13 May 14, 2013

• Coast Guard hearing on Shell drill-rig grounding set to start May 20

  A formal Coast Guard hearing investigating the circumstances of the grounding of Royal Dutch Shell's drilling rig, the Kulluk, begins at noon May 20 in Anchorage.

  15:59 May 14, 2013
• America's Cup boat nosedived, broke into pieces
• Group effort saves injured loggerhead turtle
• Still making a splash in the Coast Guard
• Judge orders release of coal-laden ship from Port of Virginia
• Judge blasts Coast Guard in hearing
• Coast Guard honored in Chattanooga's Armed Forces Day Parade
• Coast Guard Station Georgetown welcomes new response boat
• Alabama businessman sentenced for bribery
• Outcry erupts over 1-percent pay raise proposed for military
• Coast Guard searching for missing boater off NJ
• Coast Guard reservist helps better maritime safety
• 'Warriors on the Water' gives veterans chance to relax, fish
• Tugboat sinks, Coast Guard rescues 4 off Calif.
• Commandant eager for new museum to tell Coast Guard story
• US helps Vietnam defend fishermen who 'get into trouble' with China
• Road to downtown New London was a long one for Coast Guard Museum
• Biden to speak at CGA's 132nd commencement
• Opinion: America needs a Coast Guard that can fight
• Coast Guard conducts exercise on Mississippi
• Coast Guard officials reinstate tuition assistance
• Unmanned aircraft training takes off at Mass. base
• National Coast Guard Museum plans due to be announced