A military aid society has established an award to honor Lt. Thomas "Jimmy" Crotty, a South Buffalo native whose remains came back to Western New York this week.

The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard intends to be in Buffalo for Saturday's funeral Mass and burial of Lt. Thomas "Jimmy" Crotty, a World War II legend whose remains are expected to return this week to his hometown.

Lt. Thomas Crotty, 30, died July 19, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp in the Philippines after being captured with the fall of Corregidor earlier that year.

Ten different U.S. Coast Guard cutters combined for a series of 18 drug busts and seizures in international waters of the Caribbean Basin and the Eastern Pacific Ocean — off Mexico and Central and South America.

A Coast Guard search is underway for a 26-year-old Carnival cruise passenger who went overboard Thursday evening. The passenger dropped from the Carnival Dream ship hours after it left Galveston, Texas, for a four-day cruise, Carnival told the New York Daily News in a statement.

Coast Guard is “doubling down on Oceania” amid China's "coercive tactics," said Adm. Karl Schultz.

Seaman Ethan W. Tucker was arrested Aug. 28 after a seven-month Coast Guard investigation into the January death of Seaman Ethan Kelch, who served on the same ship as Tucker — the Kodiak, Alaska-based high endurance cutter Douglas Munro.

The Coast Guard offloaded more than 6,800 pounds of cocaine — worth an estimated $92 million — in San Diego on Wednesday, contraband that the military branch seized in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

During Maritime Training Activity Sama Sama, nations will practice shore and sea capabilities, including force protection, explosive ordnance disposal and anti-air, surface warfare and vessel-of-interest tracking.

James Michael Wells, who was a U.S. Coast Guard civilian technician stationed in Alaska at the time of the crime, was previously convicted in the 2012 shootings but had his case reversed on appeal.

The U.S. Coast Guard is looking further into a distress call Saturday purportedly from from a missing boater and three children off the coast of Kennebunkport, Maine, including the possibility the call was a hoax.

Body art and tattoos that are consistent with the Coast Guards values will now be allowed on the chest, but not visible above the uniform crew neck shirt. Hand and finger tattoos — in addition to one ring tattoo per hand — are also now allowed.

Lt. Christopher P. Hasson, who authorities say planned to “murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” was not charged with any terrorist-related counts.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter returned to port Friday after offloading nearly $174 million worth of cocaine the Coast Guard seized in operations off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America, according to the Coast Guard.

The US Coast Guard rescued three people and a chihuahua from a sailboat 35 miles adrift off Klamath, California, on Wednesday.

Local, state, federal and military agencies in Virginia team up with industry and spill-management contractors to work out what to do in a simulation organized by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard officials are asking for the public’s help to identify a person who is broadcasting threats and fake calls for help.

Officials have been looking for surviving relatives of the 111 Coast Guard and four Navy crewmembers who perished aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa for the past two decades. They’ve found nearly half of them.

Seaman Ethan W. Tucker is accused of killing Seaman Ethan Kelch in January by hitting him over the head and leaving him to die on an Alaska shore, according to information released Thursday by the service.

The Pentagon approved a two-year grant of nearly $10 million for the second stage of the study's research, which will follow cadets and student-athletes for up to four years after graduation.

With hundreds of new Coast Guard Academy cadets starting their military training, staff at the medical clinic on campus have had their hands full during the summer months. That was magnified two weeks ago, when a bacterial infection began spreading among the cadets.

The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a dual-commissioning ceremony for two Legend-class national security cutters Saturday at U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu.

The U.S. Coast Guard will suspend at sundown a massive search for two firefighters who disappeared during a fishing trip off the coast of Florida, officials said at a Thursday news conference.

Local, state and federal officials, along with volunteers, continued a massive search Wednesday for two off-duty firefighters who went missing Friday during a fishing trip off Port Canaveral.

Brian McCluney, a Navy veteran and Jacksonville firefighter, and Justin Walker, a Virginia firefighter, have been missing since Friday. Led by the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast, the air and water search has covered 50,000 square miles.

Boaters Brian McCluney and Justin Walker launched from the 300 Christopher Columbus boat ramp in Jacksonville near Port Canaveral Friday. They were in a 24-foot center console heading toward “8A” reef on a fishing trip. The two men haven’t been seen since, the Coast Guard’s command center in Jacksonville said.

The new Coast Guard national security cutter Midgett, which arrived at its new homeport of Honolulu on Friday, has chalked up a second major drug bust — even before it is officially commissioned into service.

The United States spends $2 billion a day on the most advanced military ever assembled, with more aircraft carriers, fighter planes and nuclear submarines than any other nation — but every time the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star makes the 11,500-mile journey to Antarctica, it falls apart.

Chief Warrant Officer J.L. Horne was permanently relieved as the commanding officer of the cutter Marcus Hanna.

According to the Navy, the USS Serpens blew up Jan. 29, 1945 during the accidental mishandling of bombs, torpedoes and depth charges. But the son of a crew member isn't buying it.

Nine months after Hurricane Michael destroyed 85 percent of the Coast Guard's Panama City base, officials have announced plans to commit $46.7 million to rebuild the facility.

A boat named Bada Bing was cruising near Hollywood on Tuesday, when for some reason — maybe it was the catchy name — it caught the attention of the U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Kimberly Young-McLear, who spent years reporting bullying and harassing behaviors by her superiors, and later faced retaliation for making those complaints, is finally speaking publicly about what happened to her.

Siding with the United States in the global power competition in the Indo-Pacific region means receiving a used Coast Guard cutter, said Adm. Karl Schultz.

The Coast Guard is searching for Baruch Roberts, 79, from Thomaston, Maine, whose empty kayak was found Monday in Muscongus Bay.

In a speech aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro ported at Naval Air Station North Island, Vice President Mike Pence told members of the Coast Guard that their work was pivotal to saving American lives.

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Infamously elusive boats dubbed narco-submarines — cartel-funded ships built in the jungle to haul massive amounts of drugs — have often bedeviled Coast Guardsmen tasked with stemming the flow of contraband.

Crew members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton searched throughout the night, according to Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Murray. A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane rejoined the search at daylight Friday.

Coast Guard Academy Superintendent Rear Adm. Bill Kelly said his goal is to see each of the 284 students who showed up for Day One graduate. That includes five international students, from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Rwanda, Mauritius and the Philippines.

Timmy Couvillion's small marine construction company had been hired by the U.S. Coast Guard for its biggest job in years: containing the longest offshore spill in American history.

The vessel, Another Dream, was found to be operating as an illegal 13-passenger charter for hire without required documentation, had a captain without proper credentials and had expired visual distress signals, despite previous warnings by the Coast Guard, the military said.

Incoming cadets, as well as their parents, were invited to the Coast Guard Academy before the start of their eight-week summer training for a three-day orientation aimed at helping prepare them for the transition to military life.

The Coast Guard Mutual Assistance will fund a $750 reimbursement program to help cover shipping costs for new mothers to send breast milk home, the department announced Tuesday.

Tarmo Holma, a 97-year-old decorated WWII veteran who came to this country at age 7 from Finland, served under Gen. George S. Patton and at age 21 helped liberate Nazi concentration camps, was honored this week for a half century of service in the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Two recent graduates of the Coast Guard Academy are putting their military careers on hold for a chance to compete in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

During a six-month deployment, the Coast Guard cutter Bertholf sailed with a Navy guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait and conducted exercises in the South China Sea.

The Coast Guard received a satellite distress signal from the 55-foot vessel Bertie on Wednesday evening. The sailboat was headed to New York from the Bahamas when it encountered stormy conditions.

Some 2,600 Navy sailors, Marines and members of the Coast Guard cruised into New York City on more than a dozen vessels Wednesday for the 31st annual Fleet Week — one of the largest in the nation.

Coast Guard Cmdr. Molly Waters, who served on at least three Great Lakes Coast Guard vessels and was commanding officer on two of its cutters, the Hollyhock and the Neah Bay, died this week after her motorcycle was struck while she was driving to work, the military reported.

The Coast Guard cutter Bertholf, on loan to the Navy’s 7th Fleet, joined Philippine coast guard vessels to practice search-and-rescue scenarios and other procedures.

While the Coast Guard's retention rates are relatively high in comparison to the other military services, women are leaving at higher rates than men, particularly between the five- and 10-year marks.

The Navy has awarded a $746 million contract to a Mississippi shipbuilder for a new heavy polar icebreaker, a move that was nearly sunk last year when its funding was diverted to build a southern U.S. border wall.

Christopher Hasson, awaiting trial on firearms and drug charges, hasn't been charged with any terrorism related offenses, although prosecutors say he created a hit list of prominent individuals.

In the past two months, the Coast Guard Academy has made substantial additions to simulators and training vessels used to prepare cadets for life in the fleet. The academy is in the midst of a $3 million upgrade to the simulators, the first major upgrade in about 20 years.

Lt. Christopher Hasson's public defender has argued that the government has no proof Hasson intended to launch a terrorist attack and that it would be inappropriate to keep him in jail on drug and weapons charges.

The Coast Guard's new strategy for the Arctic calls for upgrading ships, aircraft and unmanned systems there, an effort to make sure the United States is "projecting sovereignty" into an increasingly contested region, the service's top officer said.

As a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the East China Sea last month, Chinese vessels shadowed it on the high seas, service officials said. It was a reminder to the Americans of where they were: in a strategic area a couple hundred miles from China's shores.

A Coast Guard warrant officer driving home dove into a chilly roadside canal Wednesday to save a woman as her car filled with water.

One of the U.S. Coast Guard’s earliest female officers is urging women to “remain strong and tough” as the service tries to find ways to encourage them to stay.

The U.S. Coast Guard says human error was a factor in a sailboat race in which six people died in Mobile Bay in 2015.

The Coast Guard last sent a cutter to Hong Kong, a territory of China, 17 years ago, according to the service.

Wallace Bonaparte, a former Army captain, will travel to Washington to receive a Purple Heart in honor of his grandfather, as part of an initiative to recognize the 115 servicemembers who died more than 100 years ago aboard the USS Tampa.

Rear Adm. Donna L. Cottrell replaces Rear Adm. Joanna Nunan, the first woman in the U.S. Coast Guard to succeed another woman as district commander. Nunan had succeeded Rear Adm. June Ryan.

The Coast Guard is trying to award medals to the family members of more than 100 men who died when the Tampa was sunk by the Germans in September 1918.

While there is no "silver bullet" solution, the Coast Guard should develop more equitable personnel policies to address the large number of women leaving the service, a new study says.

Besides purchasing Union Station in New London, Conn. for $3 million in 2015 to help facilitate construction of the the proposed National Coast Guard Museum, James J. Coleman Jr. is remembered for the part he played in designing and fundraising for the museum since the late ‘90s.

This week’s passage was the fifth time in six months that U.S. warships have made the journey. Before October, there had been only one Taiwan Strait transit reported in more than a year.

The Coast Guard is "approaching a tipping point" when it comes to maintaining a service that can respond in times of need, the service's top officer said Thursday, requesting more money from Congress and highlighting a backlog of projects that has stacked up for years.

The Trump administration's focus on the southern border has closed some gaps in immigration enforcement but expanded a challenging problem, law enforcement officials in San Diego said Wednesday: undocumented immigrants sneaking into California by sea.

The full-scale fishing vessel inside a warehouse has become a key training tool in efforts to combat threats in Middle East waters, such as drug trafficking that funds extremists in places like Afghanistan.

The cutter Bertholf returned to Sasebo Naval Base after completing a patrol of the East China Sea earlier this month.

Lt. Cmdr. Keith Wilkins got hooked on rugby at the Coast Guard Academy and played for some top U.S. rugby clubs before being assigned to Yokota Air Base.

A Norfolk-based destroyer rescued 26 Cubans who were attempting to illegally immigrate to the United States last week when their sailboat became distressed about 48 miles south of the Florida Keys, according to the military.

During their voyage, the crew managed rugged seas in a vessel nicknamed the “Polar Roller,” put out an onboard fire and spend more than three months away from home with limited communication to their families.

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Ships that have intercepted millions of dollars worth of cocaine. A command that defends the Coast Guard's cyber assets. An icebreaker at the forefront of the changing Arctic. These are just some of the places graduating cadets at the Coast Guard Academy are headed.

Although Coast Guard Station Panama City, Fla. was able to resume essential operations within 24 hours of Hurricane Michael's landfall, the installation and its small staff of 100 Coast Guardsmen and women still face a long-term struggle to fully recover from the storm.

A federal grand jury in Maryland indicted Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, on charges of illegal possession of firearm silencers; possession of firearms by a drug addict and unlawful user; and possession of a controlled substance.

The U.S. Coast Guard says criminal proceedings have been initiated against 12 service members following an investigation into possible drug activity on Alaska's Kodiak Island.

Christopher P. Hasson was arrested on gun and drug charges last week after federal law enforcement officials seized a stockpile of guns and ammunition from his basement apartment.

Christopher Paul Hasson, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist, called for "focused violence" to "establish a white homeland" and dreamed of ways to "kill almost every last person on earth," according to court records.

Funding for the service's first new heavy icebreaker in 40 years, which military leaders say is vital in competing with Russia and China in the Arctic region, is part of the $333 billion spending bill Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed last week to avoid another government shutdown.

Elizabeth City State University, a historically black college with the only four-year aviation degree in North Carolina, could help the Coast Guard increase its number of pilots.

It will be 40 years to the day Monday that Yvonne Kaehler opened the door of the Mashpee home she shared with her husband, Bruce, to find the chaplain and base commander waiting on her doorstep. "Of course you know what's going to happen when the chaplain's standing there," Kaehler said.

Each lawmaker is given one ticket to invite a guest to join them for the State of the Union. Congressman Peter DeFazio invited Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Jason Vanderhaden to highlight that the Coast Guard never stopped protecting the nation's borders during the government shutdown, and all while going unpaid.

Two crewmen repairing lifeboats on an oil tanker where hurled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, after one of the boats accidentally launched itself off the ship. A Coast Guard cutter was 20 miles away and rushed to the scene, pulling one man off the lifeboat and the other out of the ocean, officials said.

Lockheed Martin has pledged $1 million to the National Coast Guard Museum, the largest donation to date from the defense industry.

The Coast Guard was the only military branch to go without a paycheck during the shutdown and some Coast Guard families complained about how difficult it was to make ends meet during that time and how it was unfair other military services continued to be paid.

The drugs seized in 21 separate operations in international waters off Mexico and Central and South America were offloaded from the Coast Guard Cutter Forward.

Researchers from the AFRL, a team of engineering students from Michigan Technological University and the Coast Guard are working together to design a compact, high-capacity rescue device that can be deployed quickly at sea.

The Coast Guard Pay and Personnel Center worked through the weekend and secured after-hours support from the U.S. Treasury office to process pay missed during the partial federal government shutdown as quickly as possible, according to Adm. Charles W. Ray, vice commandant of the service.

The move, approved by the Senate and House on Friday, would end the longest government shutdown in history, which reached its 35th day. The temporary measure, known as a continuing resolution, would fund the government until Feb. 15.

The dining facility run by Green Berets began offering free meals Friday to members of the Stuttgart military community who are not getting paid because of the government shutdown.

In another reminder that the Coast Guard remains handcuffed to a larger, protracted government shutdown, senators on Thursday failed to move key legislation forward that would have ended the stalemate on pay for servicemembers.

Coast Guard members around the Yokota pantry can take as many expired grocery items as they want and up to two bags of other items — one bag more than is usually allowed — each week.

Coast Guard recruits are the latest casualties in the ongoing federal government shutdown, as the service is having trouble getting graduates to their next duty station.