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.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun offloaded approximately 19,055 pounds of cocaine and marijuana at Port Everglades in Florida. The contraband is worth an estimated $140.9 million and was the result of five interdictions in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea by interagency partners.

The Coast Guard has lost members faster in recent years than it recruited new ones and the service is not doing enough to address the problem, a federal watchdog found.

Mariners lit an emergency beacon that helped the US Coast Guard find them about 140 miles west of Guam.

After Adm. Kevin Lunday took over as acting commandant of the Coast Guard, the service’s ships were immediately surged to southern Florida and other areas of the country to deter maritime migration. Many of the Coast Guard’s cutters are approaching 50 years old.