All of the swabs will receive their fourth-class shoulder boards in a ceremony on Aug. 20, marking the start of their time as a cadet.

Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk and from at least three other ships confiscated the drugs from early June through mid-July.

Recent rains have uncovered what appear to be more World War II-era debris at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard base in Curtis Bay that was previously designated a Superfund site because of contaminants in the soil.

Former Coast Guardsman Buel Payne and his wife Linda will spend their afterlife in a memorial modeled after the lost city of Atlantis and encrusted with sea life. They are the first to be memorialized in Neptune Memorial Reef's expansion off Florida.

Zac and Cindy Edwards had just gotten married at Orange Beach, Alabama, and were taking photos when a woman came up and said someone was struggling in the surf. Zac Edwards, a former lifeguard and Coast Guard member, stripped off his shirt and went in after the swimmer.

The Coast Guard, in seeking public comment on a review of the environmental impacts related to building the National Coast Guard Museum on the downtown waterfront, has released the museum's newest design.

Democratic lawmakers, worried about growing Russian and Chinese competition in the Arctic, have criticized Homeland Security’s decision to free up money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall by reallocating $750 million that had been earmarked for a polar icebreaker.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has evacuated a sick crewmember from an oil and chemical tanker off Long Island.

Guests were also taken through the station’s galley, where on-duty Coast Guard members eat meals and spend much of their time, and out into the boatyard, where they were given a close look at some of the lifesaving vessels.

A German U-boat had torpedoed the Mirlo, a British tanker loaded with gasoline, seven miles from shore. The British had been transporting badly needed fuel from the United States for the forces in Europe during World War I.

Lt. Peter Lewia took on the role of commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder during a change of command ceremony held Thursday morning at Fort Macon State Park. He takes the helm from Lt. Andrew Norberg.

The U.S. Senate passed its annual defense authorization bill Wednesday, directing more than $250 million in military spending to Alaska and directing the Navy to procure a new Arctic icebreaker.

A body has been found inside the semi truck that went off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, and officials believe a second person might have died as a result of the crash.

Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula has been awarded several contracts to build ships for the U.S. military and is looking for skilled people to work on those ships.

As a military band played and flags snapped in the breeze, 24 crew members and Coast Guard brass stood at attention Wednesday morning during the commissioning of a ship named after the first Coast Guardsman killed in action since the Vietnam War.

Capt. Andrew Tucci was being investigated for abusive sexual contact, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The Coast Guard's investigation indicated there was "permanent relief for cause," and Tucci retired.

The Maritime Coordination Center is charged with aiding dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in a joint effort to keep the waters off California safe from smugglers and other criminals.

Lava Ocean Tours, the lava boat operator whose 23 passengers were injured Monday morning by lava bombs, had a prior history of passenger lawsuits and had been previously fined by the state for lava tour boat violations.

The drugs, worth nearly $260 million wholesale, were seized from four suspected smuggling vessels.

Hawaii tour boat operators plan to continue taking visitors to see lava, but will follow the Coast Guard's revised policy and stay farther away after an explosion caused molten rock to barrel through the roof of a vessel, injuring 23 people.

Pilot Mike Hudgins is a retired U.S. Navy pilot who also flew for Hawaiian Airlines and Japan Airlines before joining Taquan five or six years ago. He was flying a Taquan Air de Havilland Otter from Steamboat Bay to Ketchikan when the plane crashed.

Scientists on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy believe they have discovered the cause behind a major climatic event that occurred 13,000 years ago.

A U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat was returning from a search-and-rescue mission when its four-man crew spotted a large light-colored shark crossing the boat’s bow.

Lt. Cmdr. Jessica Shafer is one of four active-duty female "surfman" in the Coast Guard. It's one of the highest qualifications reserved for members who search and rescue in dangerous conditions.

Nearly all 50 states are represented among the Coast Guard Academy's Class of 2022, which started its military training on Monday — one of the hottest days of the year.

One hundred and two years ago, U.S. Coast Guard Boatman John Munz made history by becoming the first member of the Coast Guard to lose his life during a search and rescue.

The 11 international students hail from Belize, Cambodia, Iceland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Mexico, Palau, Panama, Rwanda and Ukraine and will attend as a part of the academy's international cadet program.

A large metal tank that recently washed up on Hilton Head Island's Burkes Beach is drawing the attention of beachgoers and the Coast Guard, which sent a team Thursday to determine whether it is hazardous.

A plaque unveiled Wednesday at the overlook of the Falls of the Ohio State Park recounts the seventh member of the Coast Guard to die while on duty, but the first to lose his life in an active search and rescue.

Ahead of its annual summer research deployment to the Arctic, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy is stopping over in San Diego to pick up supplies and give the public a window inside the ice-breaking operations of the branch’s largest ship.

Most of the funding would go to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which also is part of Homeland Security. The department has the authority to move money around between its components, and may also shift other funding to pay for ICE operations.

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The U.S. Coast Guard recently deployed from Alaska to northeast Japan as part of a multinational effort to help curb illegal fishing.

Taxpayers have paid nearly $20 million for extra Coast Guard patrols that protected President Donald Trump by land and sea during 16 winter and spring trips to West Palm Beach since his inauguration, according to new records obtained by USA TODAY.

The beacon atop the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is decades old and needs constant repair. The light went dark twice this year after aging components broke down. The Coast Guard is considering changing the bulb to the latest technology available – an LED light.

Connecticut lawmakers, joined by some of their colleagues in Congress, are asking the head of the Coast Guard how the service plans to address "racial disparities" at the Coast Guard Academy.

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After seeing too many tragedies — they’ve spotted people in the river who were already dead — Randy Kohl and the crew said it was meaningful to be able to save someone, though they weren’t expecting to be honored by the Coast Guard and Ramsey County sheriff’s office.

Robert J. Birrane Jr., a decorated Vietnam veteran who rose to become a senior Coast Guard Auxiliary officer, died May 30. “Bob emerged from his experience in Vietnam with a Bronze Star for heroism in combat," said Art Pine, a former reporter.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday thanked the Coast Guard for helping save thousands during Hurricane Harvey last year, but he also made a claim that took many Texas leaders and first responders by surprise.

At a change of command ceremony on Friday, President Donald Trump said America is safe because the U.S. Coast Guard is strong. Trump called the Coast Guard the "elite force" that defends borders, patrols the waters, protects U.S. cities and keeps enemies at bay.

A bill authorizing funding for the Coast Guard includes a provision that would enable the service to pay for design and engineering work for the National Coast Guard Museum planned in downtown New London, Connecticut.

Capt. Kevin Lopes was removed as the head of the Coast Guard Academy management department "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead the department," a spokesman said. But he's still teaching at the academy.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew offloaded on Tuesday more than $78 million worth of cocaine in San Diego, just a portion of the drugs seized during patrols off the coast of Central America this month, an official said.

Coast Guard Capt. Martha J. LaGuardia's career ended earlier this month where it began 33 years ago, at Coast Guard Station Destin, Fla.

Bruce Melnick and Daniel Burbank are the only two Coast Guard members to become NASA astronauts.

Rear Adm. Francis Pelkowski served as the Coast Guard’s deputy commandant for operations and as senior reserve officer. He oversaw the readiness of 7,000 reservists who respond to emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

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In its 27th year, Norfolk's annual Marine Firefighting School's five-day course brings together more than 100 students from regions as close as Norfolk and as far-flung as Singapore to better equip them to handle the unique dangers of ship borne firefighting.

The U.S. Coast Guard has ended the search for a crew member of the MSC Seaside who fell overboard early Wednesday. The crewmember went overboard from the seventh deck of the Maltese-flagged cruise ship at around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

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Coast Guard K9s, outfitted with a harness, goggles and ear protectors, are raised and lowered from a California Highway Patrol helicopter from a runway with their handlers.

The Coast Guard removed buoys last March in Little Egg Inlet between Long Beach Island and Brigantine Island and advised boaters that they traversed the inlet at their own risk due to shallow depths create by the shoaling.

The Frying Pan Tower, a former Coast Guard light station built 34 miles off North Carolina's coast, is being put up for auction by the Charlotte man who turned it into the world's strangest bed and breakfast.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has reached a first-ever agreement with the Coast Guard to work on a wide range of technologies, from future development of drones to artificial intelligence, officials said.

The agency says the new vessels are capable of deploying independently to conduct missions that include coastal security, fishery patrols, search and rescue and national defense.

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The Coast Guard assisted seven boaters after their vessel began taking on water west of La Jolla on Friday morning.

He commands U.S. Coast Guard forces from the shores of East Africa to the Rocky Mountains, rescuing mariners at sea, enforcing fishing laws, interdicting smugglers and protecting America’s ports, and Vice Adm. Fred M. Midgette says his Coasties need more money.

A volunteer flotilla of pleasure boats, fishing boats and personal watercraft joined a U.S. Army Chinook, a Hawaii Air National Guard Black Hawk and two Kauai County Fire Department helicopters ferrying stranded campers, hikers, tourists and residents out of the tiny, storm-isolated community of Haena on Kauai.

Ingalls Shipbuilding has been awarded a $94 million fixed-price contract to purchase materials in advance of construction of a new National Security Cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard rescued three people in a boat on the Columbia River that was taking on water near the Port of Vancouver early Saturday evening.

The cutter Sherman, the Coast Guard’s last active warship to have sunk an enemy vessel in combat, was decommissioned in Honolulu on Thursday.

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The plus-sized pooch — named George Jefferson — travels in a carrier that weighs an additional 100 pounds to his 221-pound frame. After United Airlines’ recent decision to suspend its pet travel program, George's owner is left with few choices to bring her furry friend home.

The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf's crew also seized what’s known as a low-profile go-fast vessel — a type of boat designed to avoid detection while on the water — and three fishing vessels that were allegedly carrying narcotics during the patrol.

After 12 hours of searching across 112 square miles near Cape Henry, Virginia, the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 33-year-old crewman from the cargo ship Lara Venture.

Pending confirmation, Vice Adm. Karl L. Schultz is expected to relieve Adm. Paul Zukunft in a change-of-command ceremony scheduled for June 1 in Washington, D.C.

The Paddle Craft Risk Cold Water Danger system unveiled by Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads and the National Weather Service Wakefield will warn paddle sports enthusiasts of certain hazards. It mirrors a system in place in Maine.

The finished monument will include the sculpture in the center of a circular brick paver pad. Two stone walls will stand at the pad's north and south edges, one with stainless steel letters spelling "COAST GUARD CITY."

Hurricane-force winds caused a private dock to collapse Monday morning and up to 3,000 gallons of oil dumped into the water. High winds and seas kept pollution responders in boats from getting to the spill Wednesday.

Hurricane-force winds near Kodiak caused a dock to collapse on Monday morning, releasing up to 3,000 gallons of fuel into critical marine habitat, officials said.

Lewis Bennett is accused of killing his wife Isabella Hellman, of concocting a fake boating accident to make it all appear to be a tragic accident. The murder charges were filed the same day he was sentenced for stealing collectible coins, which the Coast Guard found on his life raft following his rescue.

A Newport News man who made a false distress call from his boat in the Chesapeake Bay, then threatened a Coast Guard officer who came to rescue him, was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison.

The leader of a heroic Outer Banks rescue team and a soldier who fought with the 36th U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War will have a bridge on N.C. 12 named after him.

Officials announced Friday that Capt. Andrew Tucci was removed from command of Sector Long Island Sound in New Haven, Connecticut, but did not say exactly why Tucci was reassigned.

The Northland interdicted five vessels, detained 16 suspected drug traffickers and seized 7,564 kilograms of cocaine during its 81-day deployment, according to the Coast Guard. The crew also conducted exercises with the Naval Forces of the Army of Nicaragua.

Traffickers continue to use the eastern Pacific Ocean as a transit route for drugs and the U.S. Coast Guard — and other international agencies — continue to pursue and catch them.

The U.S. Coast Guard has spent the last month looking for a suspect who made several calls to the Coast Guard’s Los Angeles command center, a felony that could land the caller in prison for up to six years.

Chief of Naval Operations John M. Richardson, Marine Corps commandant Gen. Robert Neller and Coast Guard commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft described the vital need for a steady funding stream to retrain and rearm services straining from nearly 17 years of constant counter-terror operations.

The second of three new Coast Guard cutters to be stationed in Hawaii arrived Sunday, strengthening the capabilities for search and rescue operations around Hawaii.

The U.S. Coast Guard plucked Samuel Moss Jr. from a newly purchased 21-foot Angler boat that was sinking in the Atlantic Ocean, 10 miles off the shore of Palm Beach County.

Meredith Sieller wants to be one of the Coast Guard's elite, the ones called on to perform unthinkable acts of bravery when someone's life is at stake. Like jumping out of a helicopter into rough, frigid waters some 30 feet below to save someone's life.

A sailor who was rescued by the Coast Guard after being lost at sea for 16 days spoke Tuesday for the first time about his ordeal.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a helicopter crew airlifted an injured sailor from a Navy destroyer off the Southern California coast.

The Coast Guard responded to reports that a 107-foot boat was adrift in Richardson Bay on Monday morning, boarded the boat and found Douglass Crandall. He was turned over to police when he gave suspicious answers about why the former Army tugboat was loose in the water, a police spokesman said.

The Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sized about 6,000 pounds of shrimp from a fishing vessel near the Dry Tortugas Shrimp Sanctuary Preservation area.

The death toll from massive debris flows that buried homes and cars under a torrent of mud and boulders rose to 17 in Montecito, where local personnel and the U.S. Coast Guard continued rescue operations Wednesday afternoon.

U.S. Coast Guard planes were continuing to fly over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning in search of a missing Oklahoma City pilot, the Coast Guard reports.

In a storm far worse than the "bomb cyclone" lashing the East Coast this week, 16 men tried to help deliver food to an icebound island.

A 62-year-old man was rescued off Maui after he was blown off course during a journey from Panama to Australia in a homemade boat, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

A Coast Guard petty officer on Thursday was found not guilty of child endangerment in a military court hearing connected to the death of his 3-year-old daughter.

The fuel depot is the Department of Defense's largest single-site fuel terminal in the United States. The depot provides military-grade fuel, lubricants and additives to U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels, and to those from allied nations like Canada.

A crewmember suffering a medical emergency was flown from a cruise ship more than 200 miles off Southern California to a hospital on shore.

Scott Johnson, firefighter and retired Coast Guard member who died of cancer this summer, made his final journey on Monday. About 500 mourners gathered for his funeral.

U.S. Coast Guard officials on Thursday formally kicked off a $23 million construction project that will provide new digs for the 150 servicemembers assigned to the agency's Woods Hole station.

Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the shortfall accounts for a backlog of ship and aircraft maintenance and repairs for hangars and other facilities damaged by the three devastating hurricanes this year within six weeks.

The drugs were seized during 14 separate drug smuggling busts in international waters off the coasts of Mexico and Central America, authorities said.

A Newport News man was convicted by a federal jury Monday of making a false distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard. He reported a “man overboard” while he was on his private boat off Cape Henry on June 20, 2016, according to court documents.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Dill was on his way to pick up his wife and her friends when he crossed paths with a drunken driver going the wrong way on the Interstate in Virginia. He later died of his injuries.

Officials say as many as 500 ships could litter local waters in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria, ranging from small personal sailboats to a ferry to a large yacht sunk on top of another vessel.