According to a policy letter issued on Oct. 30, Coast Guard inspectors should look for potentially hazardous conditions such as batteries not being stored in cool, dry places away from combustible material, or batteries being charged using multiple extension cords, also known as daisy chains.

Uncertainty over the result of this week's presidential election has given way to legal action, demonstrations and even violence. In this tense time, the Military Matters podcast looks back at interviews from of last season's episodes on the use of the military to handle episodes of civil unrest.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service will host Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan on its “Chief Chat” social media broadcasts this month to recognize valor for Veterans Day.

They had been stranded on shore of the atoll, which is about 30 miles from Cuba's northern coast, for 10 days, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Nick Zieser.

Staff Sgt. Nicholas Brunetto never expected to receive an award for his actions in combat with a Special Forces team ambushed in Afghanistan earlier this year.

U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett, 24, an aviation student, and Navy Lt. Rhiannon Ross, 30, a flight instructor, died when their aircraft crashed into a residential area in Alabama.

An administrator at Norfolk’s Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy conspired with three other men to sell phony Coast Guard merchant mariner credentials, federal prosecutors said this week.

U.S. Navy Lt. Rhiannon Ross, 30, from Wixom, Mich., and U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett, 24, from Weddington, N.C., were aboard the U.S. Navy T-6B Texan II trainer aircraft that crashed Oct. 23 in a residential area of Foley, Ala.

The testing is intended to provide Coast Guard leaders with an assessment of the capabilities and limitations of unmanned vessels.

In this fast take episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez discusses feedback we've gotten after the QAnon episode, and explores possible characteristics about veterans and service members that make them so vulnerable to extremism. To uncover more, he talks again with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

In this episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez explores QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory that falsely claims President Donald Trump is fighting a shadowy cabal of Satanist pedophiles. To uncover more, he talks with QAnon Anonymous podcast co-host Travis View and with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

There are 22 crew members on the ship. No one was injured and there were no reports of pollution or flooding aboard the ship, according to the Coast Guard.

The U.S. Coast Guard has taken samples from oil deposits that washed up on the Florida side of Perdido Key after Hurricane Sally to determine where the oil might have come from.

Herbert Tabor, a leading scientific investigator at the National Institutes of Health whose 77 years of service made him the longest-serving employee at the medical research center and among the longest-serving in the federal workforce, died Aug. 20 at his home on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. He was 101.

The three Sentinel-class cutters will eventually replace Guam’s 110-foot Island-class patrol boats that the Coast Guard has been using for about three decades.

At least five illegal charters were stopped in the mid-Atlantic region from North Carolina to New Jersey in July and August, according to a Coast Guard news release.

Investigators in Yokosuka are assessing the Coast Guard cutter Waesche to determine the fire’s cause and the extent of the damages after a 90-minute fire damaged the ship at sea on Sunday.

A military judge found Seaman Ethan Tucker not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of Seaman Ethan Kelch. The judge did find Tucker guilty of assault consummated by battery.

The Erie County District Attorney's Office wants Pennsylvania's highest court to decide whether Christopher S. Leclair should have to pay the U.S. Coast Guard nearly $425,000 that it spent searching for the body of Leclair's murdered wife, Karen, on Lake Erie in 2017. He falsely reported that she fell overboard.

In the span of three days, a group of third-class cadets went from finishing their first year at the academy remotely from home to boarding the Munro, one of the largest ships in the Coast Guard with a permanent crew of 145 people.

Gulf Coast military installations from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle were bracing Tuesday evening for the impact of slow-moving Hurricane Sally, which forecasters warned could drop record, life-threatening rainfall on the region in the coming days.

The Coast Guard and Navy recently joined forces to assess after-storm damage to Hampton Roads port facilities.

Coast Guard Academy officials say the more subdued start to the school year might have helped the new cadets better adjust to military life.

The arguments from federal prosecutors in Maryland came in a court filing Friday, about three months after attorneys for Christopher Hasson asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea or else throw out his sentence.

The Coast Guard Research and Development Center has formed a dedicated unit of volunteers to support the center by helping find subject matter experts and people to assist in field research

A Coast Guard swim call in the Pacific Ocean nearly turned into a scene from “Jaws” when a shark tried to join the party, according to harrowing video the service published recently.

About 11,500 pounds of cocaine and 17,000 pounds of marijuana were offloaded at Port Everglades on Thursday morning from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, according to the Coast Guard’s Seventh District Southeast.

An electrical fire on the Coast Guard cutter Healy left it unable to operate in ice.

The United States Coast Guard rescued six people 16 miles east of Cape Henry after their boat capsized in adverse weather conditions Sunday afternoon.

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced Wednesday that Rhode Island will serve as the home port for two new 360-foot Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), which will be based out of Naval Station Newport.

When authorities received word of an injured hiker who needed a medevac lift off Isle Royale, a remote Michigan island archipelago in Lake Superior, the U.S. Coast Guard swung into action.

Police identified Sean Reilly as the suspect during an investigation and arrested him at the Sector Southeast Coast Guard Station in Woods Hole on Tuesday morning.

The crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare, Winslow Griesser and Cyclone-class patrol ship USS Shamal offloaded about 3,900 pounds of marijuana and about 1,100 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades. The drugs are estimated to be worth $25.7 million.

There is growing international interest in the arctic region’s resources, fishing, and global strategic positioning, according to Vice Adm. Steven Poulin, the commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area.

Coast Guard Day is celebrated on Aug. 4 because that is when the service was established in 1790 when President George Washington signed the Tariff Act.

Three mariners who apparently sailed off course and ran out of fuel were rescued from an uninhabited island with the help of the U.S. Air Force.

Sara Faulkner had the “it” factor as the first woman to graduate from the Coast Guard’s helicopter rescue swimmer school in North Carolina. But her story had a bitter end, she says, after sexual harassment saddled her with PTSD and forced the 20-year service member into retirement.

The Coast Guard drew the ire of Congress when Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant, did not attend and sent an underling, Vice Adm. Michael McAllister, said he knew of no widespread problem of sexual abuse or harassment in the Coast Guard.

Eric Hupp was honored Wednesday morning with a Certificate of Valor presented to him by the U.S. Coast Guard. It’s given to people who show courage saving or trying to save people from perils of the sea.

The Coast Guard sent out an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from Atlantic City, and its cutter, the Angela McShan, to head to the sinking boat. Members of the crew were found near a debris field left after the ship sank and they set off a flare.

One person thrown from the boat was critically injured and had to be hoisted by the MH-60 helicopter and taken to Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. The three other victims also were taken to mainland hospitals.

An afternoon Caribbean Sea chase involving a drug smuggler’s speeding boat and a U.S. Coast Guard fast response boat wound up with $75.6 million in cocaine in the water, the Coast Guard said.

In a memo released Friday, Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, said, “While the Confederate battle flag may be symbolic of different beliefs, it divides Americans and threatens our Black shipmates.”

The Coast Guard diverted a helicopter whose crew was training in the area, and rescuers hoisted the imperiled boaters to safety.

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City used a helicopter and a basket to hoist the man and woman to safety on Sunday, July 12. “They had spent the night there and woke up the next morning to find their boat aground, turning an overnight trip into three days spent on the island,” officials said.

After an outbreak of nine COVID-19 cases early this month among personnel involved in the project, no new cases were reported in the past week, said Michael Von Stein of the Coast Guard, spokesman for Unified Command.

From July 25 to Aug. 8, Grand Haven residents and businesses are encouraged to decorate their porches, yards and windows to signal their appreciation for the U.S. Coast Guard, in the absence of the 96th annual Coast Guard Festival.

Like other service academies and military training centers, the Coast Guard Academy has made major changes because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Adm. Karl Schultz responded by saying the Coast Guard hadn’t banned the Confederate flag but changed its policy in 2019 to give commanders discretion as to how to handle such imagery "if it's revealed and it's offensive to somebody.”

Capt. Paul Stukus turned and saluted the rear admiral standing to his right. He requested permission to relieve the command of the Surface Forces Logistics Center from Commander Capt. Chad Jacoby. Rear Adm. Nathan Moore granted the request.

The VB 10,000, a massive crane, will arrive in the Golden Isles to cut up and haul off the shipwrecked Golden Ray as early as this weekend.

Marine mammal experts and federal officials are stumped by what’s believed to be the first-ever West Coast sighting of a beluga whale off San Diego.

Eight members of Coast Guard Station Brunswick were recognized Monday for their exemplary performance during rescue efforts following the capsizing of the 656-foot Golden Ray in September.

Senior Chief Morale Dog Onyx was 13.5 years old when she died surrounded by members of her crew and loved ones at U.S. Coast Guard Station St. Ignace, Mich., on Tuesday.

Taylor Energy has filed a lawsuit challenging the Coast Guard’s order for the New Orleans oil company to halt a more than 15-year-long oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

Collaborating with managers of two national marine sanctuaries, the Coast Guard is asking heavy vessels — including tankers, container and cruise ships — to approach and exit San Francisco Bay at no more than 10 knots, about half their normal speed, and watch out for the leviathans that can send a spout up to 30 feet in the air.

A Coast Guard helicopter was used to rescue a woman who tumbled down an embankment and fell 25 feet before landing on a beach in the Upper Peninsula.

Coast Guard helicopter and boat crews combined to rescue two people and their cat from a sinking 50-foot houseboat in North Carolina over the weekend.

An 18-year-old and his mother were rescued by United States Coast Guard helicopters Thursday afternoon near Coos Bay on the southern Oregon Coast, police said.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a $618 million plan to expand the Port of Nome.

All 16 of the hulking lifting lugs are now in place on the exposed starboard side of the shipwrecked Golden Ray, the 656-foot-long freighter that has foundered in the St. Simons Sound for eight long months, said U.S. Coast Guardsman John Miller, spokesman for Unified Command.

Of the 232 returning Coast Guard Academy cadets, only one tested positive for coronavirus, academy spokesman Cmdr. Dave Milne said Wednesday.

Four Coast Guard cutters and two U.S. Navy ships combined for 11 separate seizures aboard suspected drug smuggling vessels, since April 1.

Coastguardsman stationed in Traverse City were launched over the weekend on a report of a kayaker who was stranded on the shore of Georgian Bay in Canada, according to an announcement by U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City.

The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Active seized the drugs earlier this month from "known drug-transit zones" in the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of North and Central America, according to Coast Guard officials.

The Coast Guard Academy's largest and most diverse class graduated Wednesday, starting their careers as new officers in the Coast Guard at an unprecedented time, as the U.S. and much of the world continue to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic and its upheaval of daily lives.

The cutter will head out of Wilmington to conduct a patrol in support of the Seventh Coast Guard District, before heading to its new homeport in Pensacola, Fla.

In honor of Memorial Day, four U.S. Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft will soar over 34 South Florida hospitals from the Keys to Palm Beach County. Additionally, a United States Coast Guard MH65 helicopter and a United States Coast Guard C-144 aircraft, will have a different flight path and fly over 16 South Florida hospitals.

The Coast Guard festival, which honors men and women serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, brings popular attractions like a parade, carnival, concerts and fireworks to the small West Michigan town. The festival will resume July 30-Aug. 8, 2021.

After three people went out on an inflatable raft recently in Long Island Sound and couldn’t paddle back to shore due to high winds and strong sea currents, the Coast Guard used GPS data from their cellphones to pinpoint their location and bring them home safely.

The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City announced Tuesday that it is planning to fly its three MH-60T helicopters over Traverse City, Munson Hospital and the surrounding areas on Friday, May 15 beginning at 2 p.m

The Diligence, which has been moored at the foot of Princess Street for more than 25 years, will leave downtown Wilmington by the end of May, a spokesman for the USCG confirmed Tuesday.

Because of where the vessel was grounded, officials realized a boat crew couldn’t handle the rescue. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Atlantic City responded to assist.

In this review episode, Military Matters podcast hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris talk some more with one of last week's guests, retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. Juan Lewis — also known as the Fired Up Chief — about how his recovery from COVID-19 is coming along.

Onyx, a 13-year-old black Labrador retriever, received a shiny new pin — a gold anchor with a gold star — denoting her advancement to senior chief petty “pawfficer” for her service as a station mascot and morale dog.

As people across the country have fired up their 3D printers to make face masks in response to the shortage of N95 masks worn by health care workers, the Coast Guard Academy’s engineering department has begun a mission to find the best designs.

During a typical Coast Guard graduation period in Cape May, the area buzzes with families, friends and graduates moving about the seaside city’s beaches, restaurants and sights. Many of them are from out-of-state. Not this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world indoors with no clear end in sight. Military Matters podcast hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris talk to two mental health clinicians, both veterans, about how the isolation and uncertainty have impacted the mental health of veterans and service members across the country.

The Coast Guard appears to have had a close call, but that’s all, with the coronavirus on the Honolulu-based cutter Midgett.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alder isn’t primarily used for supplies, but its crew shared an awesome time lapse video of the 225-foot vessel traveling through the Soo Locks on Wednesday, April 8.

Sick crew members from two cruise ships are being evacuated to the U.S. Coast Guard station at PortMiami on Thursday.

The U.S. Coast Guard Band announced that it is uploading videos to its virtual concert hall on YouTube as of March 22, featuring content such as performance footage, educational resources and tutorials.

In this special episode of Military Matters, hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris shed light on the coronavirus that is causing major upheaval around the globe.

Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Bondira, stationed at US Coast Guard Air Station Detroit, was presented with an Air Medal for his actions during Hurricane Florence rescues from Sept. 14-18, 2018, including emergency lifesaving efforts.

Each month, 4,000 vessels come into American ports, and with confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., the Coast Guard is "scrubbing the lists of crew members to understand where their last ports were, where they may have had some contact," Adm. Karl L. Schultz said Wednesday night.

In this week’s episode of Military Matters, hosts Desmon Farris and Rod Rodriguez take a look at influencers among the military community and the opportunities and pitfalls that can await them.

The Stone is named for Coast Guard officer Cmdr. Elmer “Archie” Fowler Stone, who made history in 1919 as one of two Coast Guard pilots who successfully made the first transatlantic flight in a Navy seaplane.

Much of the event was typical of a U.S. Coast Guard advancement ceremony, with everyone standing at attention as the honorees received their pins. But the brand-new petty officers third class at Station Marquette also got a special bonus: Plenty of dog treats.

The crew from Air Station Detroit responded to the scene after receiving a call of a Canadian national who had fallen through the ice between Detroit and Ontario on Sunday night.

Construction has begun on the environmental protection barrier that will surround the shipwrecked Golden Ray during the planned process to remove it from the St. Simons Sound, according to Unified Command.

The Coast Guard is facing growing operational requirements — patrolling a changing Arctic, taking on transnational crime, helping to stabilize the Arabian gulf — but federal budgets have not reflected many of the service's defense contributions, Adm. Karl Schultz said Thursday.

After netting to trap pollutants and debris is erected on the piles surrounding the vessel, the complicated process to remove the capsized Golden Ray will begin.

It is longstanding tradition for Navy ships to visit Mobile during Mardi Gras, with uniformed sailors joining the civilian crowds at parades and other festivities.

The MV Alta landed ashore amid a burst of violent, stormy weather, wedging itself onto a rocky outcropping and perplexing locals and authorities in Cork, Ireland.