The Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous and its crew returned to their homeport in Portsmouth, Va., on Tuesday, July 1, following a counter-migration patrol that lasted nearly two months.

Coast guard officers from Australia, India and Japan will arrive on Guam aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stratton to mark the conclusion of the inaugural Quad Sail.

The new cadets, called Swabs, will start Swab Summer, a seven-week training program designed to transform civilian students into military members. 

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Hono­lulu-based CGC Harriet Lane and its crew recently concluded a nine-day operation in the Cook Islands alongside local law enforcement.

The biennial Talisman Sabre will bring together a record number of troops from 19 countries for joint training across Australia and Papua New Guinea.

A federal agency has released the final report of its yearslong evaluation of indoor dampness and mold at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, documenting conditions that employees have said sickened them.

The New York Naval Militia and New York National Guard members conducted emergency response exercises on the lower Niagara River and Lake Ontario, alongside the Coast Guard and local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, wants to slash the Coast Guard’s shore infrastructure budget by 90%, a move that some lawmakers said would push the service’s housing, facilities and piers into further disrepair.

More than 100 personnel worked to clean up Baltimore Harbor after 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the harbor Wednesday following what officials said was an accidental overfill of diesel tanks that supply power for backup generators at Johns Hopkins facilities in East Baltimore. The Coast Guard is “actively investigating the scene.”

The Storis, crewed by a hybrid civilian-Coast Guard team, is the first polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard has acquired in more than 25 years. There is an increased demand for Arctic security using icebreakers because climate change has opened new sea lanes in the region.