Ingalls Shipbuilding has begun work on its latest National Security Cutter — the Legend-class Friedman (NSC 11).

The USCGC Maui fired about 30 warning shots Monday when 13 vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps came too close to the U.S. ships and "conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers."

U.S. Coast Guard crews continued to search for a boater who went missing late Friday off the coast of Boca Raton.

A Coast Guard cutter with an historic tie to 9/11 may be headed to Indonesia, but a former crew member wants it preserved as a memorial to the terrorist attacks in New York City.

The Coast Guard responded to three search-and-rescue cases along the northern Gulf Coast over the weekend near Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. There also were three search and rescues from the Texas coast.

The address, scheduled for May 19, will be the second time Biden has addressed a graduating class at the academy. He served as the keynote speaker in 2013 while serving as vice president.

Local lifeguards, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies responded after a wooden boat capsized Sunday during a possible human smuggling operation just off the San Diego coast, authorities said.

This year, for the first time, the city and federal agencies were able to communicate effectively through their own radio systems on the scene, with the successful test of a patch between a Coast Guard helicopter crew and an Ocean Safety rescue team.

Five people had to be rescued from treacherous waters off the Outer Banks after their 26-foot boat sank and flipped over, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Glen Harris is the third of six Bollinger-built cutters destined for operations in Manama, Bahrain, to support U.S. interests in southwest Asia and the Middle East.

The 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter Frederick Hatch is expected to arrive at the U.S. island territory in early July. It will join two similar cutters — Myrtle Hazard and Oliver Henry — that arrived there in the latter half of 2020.

A member of the Coast Guard is chasing Olympic sailing glory in Japan, 230 years after the U.S. Revenue Marine began hunting smugglers in wind-powered, wooden cutters.

The Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon crew has offloaded nearly $20 million in seized cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan after it captured a crew of suspected drug smugglers about 45 nautical miles north of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on Saturday.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the search for crew members who disappeared when a lift boat capsized off Louisiana will be suspended at sunset Monday. Capt. Will Watson, commander of the Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, said at a press conference that authorities do not expect to find more survivors from the vessel.

Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan has been nominated by the White House to serve as the next vice commandant of the Coast Guard, which would make her the first female four-star admiral in the service, the Coast Guard announced Monday.

Federal and state scientists confirmed initial environmental investigations at both U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City and Cherry Capital Airport showed high levels of PFAS contamination.

Six people were rescued shortly after the vessel capsized Tuesday, one body was recovered from the water Wednesday, one was found Thursday and 11 are still missing.

U.S. Coast Guard officials said an initial environmental probe found PFAS chemicals near Air Station Traverse City beyond both state and federal safety thresholds and confirmed a cleanup investigation comes next.

The New London, Conn., City Council on Monday approved a license agreement with the Coast Guard that provides a berth for the Barque Eagle adjacent to the future National Coast Guard Museum.

Recent deployments of the national security cutter Kimball and the smaller fast-response cutter Joseph Gerczak are representative of growing national security responsibilities as greater Coast Guard integration with the Navy and Marine Corps is sought.

Family members alerted the Coast Guard Thursday evening that the fisherman set out that morning in his 16-foot boat, but had yet to return.

In honor of his time as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, Arnold Palmer's name will live on at a California training center.

A 29-foot boat with 16 people aboard was intercepted about five miles off West Palm Beach in a suspected human smuggling operation, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard in Guam was notified Thursday evening of the missing fishing crew by A Micronesian native in Oregon who had read Facebook posts from acquaintances about family members who had not returned from a fishing trip.

When Nikki Barnes began sailing at age 6, she dreamed about one day competing in the Olympics. Mission accomplished. The active-duty Coast Guard lieutenant j.g. earned her spot on the U.S. sailing team this weekend.

A U.S. Coast Guard officer who kept a cache of firearms and a target list of prominent Democratic lawmakers and media personalities is appealing his prison sentence this week in a case that could complicate how the government handles accused domestic terrorists who have not acted on alleged violent plans.

On Wednesday, Adm. Karl Schultz spoke to Coast Guardsmen and watched as the maritime security cutter Bertholf unloaded 7,500 pounds of cocaine and marijuana in San Diego.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Class of 2021 found out its post-graduation assignments Thursday night during the academy's annual billet night ceremony, the first time the class had gathered together in one room since the coronavirus pandemic began.

It was a harrowing Tuesday night with 35 mph winds and 15-foot seas when members of U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod assisted in the rescue of 31 fishermen from a disabled vessel that sank off the coast of Nova Scotia.

The mission was a serious test of the capabilities of the 45-year-old, 399-foot Polar Star with challenges that included generating enough heat to keep the ship warm.

It was a busy holiday weekend for U.S. Coast Guard Stations Miami Beach and St. Petersburg. They stopped eight boats on Florida waters for operating as illegal charters.

The Coast Guard told the NTSB this week that it was agreeing with seven recommendations for major changes, including mandatory checks on roving watches, better smoke detector systems, mandatory safety management systems and improved emergency exits.

The 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter Frederick Hatch will be homeported in Guam this summer, joining its sister ships Myrtle Hazard and Oliver Henry, which arrived on the island late last year.

A large group of fishermen had been fishing in individual fish houses when the ice that they had been on separated from shore. The Duluth Fire Department got the call. The Coast Guard, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Rescue Squad and the Duluth Police Department provided assistance.

Emlen Tunnell served in the Coast Guard during and after World War II, where he was credited with saving the lives of two shipmates in separate incidents.

A Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew flew the man back to the air station where an ambulance was waiting to take him to Straub Medical Center.

John Currier, the 28th Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, was awarded the Harmon Trophy in 1988 for piloting a hazardous rescue operation to save 10 people off the coast of Cape Cod. He retired to Traverse City and died last March.

A helicopter crew from the Coast Guard’s North Bend sector lowered a rescue swimmer to give the hiker immediate medical care. Because of challenging weather and difficult terrain, they waited several hours to hoist her out of the area.

Coast Guard air and sea crews and aircraft from Patrick Air Force Base were assisting the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association with the search.

When she joined in 2013, Monique Garbutt embodied much of what Coast Guard leadership wants in today’s service. She exited in just six years, after a man she said sexually assaulted her received a light penalty and she fought to find out why.

NSC Stone (WMSL 758) is the ninth Legend-class National Security Cutter delivered to the Coast Guard by the Pascagoula shipyard. One more is under construction and another under contract.

The bill includes $5 million for the museum, which brings the total support for the project from the federal government over the last four years to $20 million. The Coast Guard Museum Association has set a goal of $30 million in federal support.

The 140-foot U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Biscayne Bay is the first icebreaker of the season to begin work on the Great Lakes.

Two men were rescued 40 miles offshore from Bradenton on Saturday morning after their 24-foot boat sank, the U.S. Coast Guard 7th District PA Detachment Tampa Bay said.

Since September, 45 crew members have worked on the Juniper, overseeing the $21.1 million of contracted work and equipment installations that were performed at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore.

Lt. Taylor Tennyson's assignment conducting counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean was only supposed to last 45 days — but the coronavirus pandemic upended that schedule, keeping him at sea for much longer than planned.

While the Coast Guard cutter Campbell was at port in Greenland’s capital city of Nuuk, Kate Kilroy visited a diner, where she saw a stranger sitting alone. She bought him a meal, just as she would have done in the small North Carolina town where she was raised.

The global pandemic has resulted in a dramatic reshuffling of the annual cruise of the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star. Instead of heading south into the unending light of the Antarctic summer, the Seattle-based vessel will journey north into the winter darkness of the Arctic.

The 50- to 100-day patrols that take the crew from New England to the Caribbean, on missions ranging from catching smugglers to saving migrants on tiny, unseaworthy boats to enforcing fisheries regulations. It’s hard on a class of cutters built in the 1980s.

Federal and local law enforcement are searching for two men who launched a boat in Cleveland Friday night and have not returned.

A Coast Guard Academy cadet has resigned from the service after he was found guilty of assaulting a classmate, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The Stratton returned to its homeport in Alameda, Calif., three weeks after leaving for patrol Oct. 28 and after several crew members began showing virus symptoms Nov. 11-12.

Ingalls Shipbuilding has delivered National Security Cutter Stone (WMSL 758) to the U.S. Coast Guard — the ninth NSC built at the Pascagoula shipyard.

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.