A frantic phone call about three missing boaters led the U.S. Coast Guard to find a capsized 20-foot boat in the dark off southwest Florida.

More than 200 additional troops have been deployed to Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to help support the detention of migrants at the facility.

A pair of American military vessels responding to a mayday call this week saved the crew of a sinking cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. Central Command.

The cocaine was captured in 11 separate drug smuggling vessel interdictions off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America in December through February.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a chilling recording of what it suspects is the moment the Titan submersible imploded in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

In the past two weeks, the Coast Guard has conducted at least seven C-130 Hercules flights that spanned California, Texas and Washington state.

A U.S. Coast Guard fast-response cutter seized nearly 5,300 pounds of hashish from a vessel in the Arabian Sea recently in the latest major drug bust for Combined Task Force 150, the Navy said Tuesday.

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted an overloaded migrant boat carrying more than 130 people from Haiti, including small children, near the Florida Keys last week.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for Seaman Bryan K. Lee, who was reported missing from the Cutter Waesche while operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The Coast Guard is investigating the source of dark, greasy balls of oil that have washed ashore on South Florida beaches.

Beachgoers from Palm Beach to Broward counties had their Saturday beach day interrupted when tar balls started washing up along the shoreline, possibly due to an oil spill from a freighter or cruise ship, officials say.

Acting Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday did not say why the anti-harassment policy was put on hold, but his message emphasized that harassment is still prohibited by military general order. Hate incidents will continue to be investigated per current rules, Lunday said.

Marines began to hang temporary barriers along a wall in San Ysidro, Calif., marking the U.S. border with Mexico as an Air Force flight crew prepared to take off from Texas to Ecuador with the military’s fourth planeload of deported migrants.

The U.S. Coast Guard said that it will be surging ships, boats and aircraft to South Florida and other areas of the country to bolster anti-maritime migration efforts to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to use the nation’s military to defend the border.

Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, was fired from a position she’s held for more than two years, according to an announcement sent to the service Tuesday morning.

National Guard troops on full-time active duty are now eligible to enroll in a tax-advantaged, health care flexible spending account, according to a spokesman for the Department of Defense.

Coast Guard members opened fire off the coast of San Diego to disable a vessel smuggling people into the U.S. after two Mexican men on the boat attempted to evade a service patrol by ramming into them.

Icy conditions proved problematic for a bulk freighter on the St. Clair River near Harsens Island on Tuesday before two ice cutters and the Coast Guard helped it on its way.