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.

U.S. Coast Guard cutter Thetis offloaded more than 28,500 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday, according to a service news release.

The USS Gravely has been in the gulf since March 15 and works with Coast Guard personnel to target drug trafficking, illegal immigration and transnational crime. On May 25 it seized 19 bales of cocaine worth $13.6 million.

The U.S. Coast Guard warned Lake Michigan boaters and beachgoers about three missing phosphorous pyrotechnics leftover from a joint military exercise with the Coast Guard and Air Force that occurred earlier this month offshore of Milwaukee.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the military’s household goods moving system, citing ongoing frustration among service members with a newly instituted contracting system.

The U.S. Coast Guard gave few details on why Capt. David Melton was relieved, saying simply it was due to loss of confidence, though the service said the removal was not due to misconduct.

The Coast Guard released its executive report detailing Force Design 2028, an initiative to reorganize the service, address its workforce shortfalls and streamline the purchase of vessels and new technology.

The Coast Guard was using a method to determine back pay that shortchanged hundreds of veterans and must stop, according to federal court documents filed Friday in a yearslong lawsuit over retention panels found to have illegally thinned noncommissioned officers from the service.

A California-based Coast Guard cutter has completed a three-day port call on Palawan, the Philippines, not far from the scene of clashes between the Philippine and Chinese coast guards.