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.

An attorney for Christopher Paul Hasson entered the plea on his behalf at an arraignment on charges of illegal possession of firearm silencers, possession of firearms by a drug addict and unlawful user, and possession of a controlled substance.

Authorities say nearly four dozen fishermen trapped on an ice floe in Lake Erie have been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and local emergency personnel in northern Ohio.

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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.

While the other military branches have remained funded, Coast Guard personnel have gone without paychecks since the shutdown started 32 days ago.

Like their colleagues back home, hundreds of Coast Guard members in Bahrain are working without pay due to the partial government shutdown. The difference is that the “Coasties” in Bahrain face a potential adversary nearby in Iran.

The donation to the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance, a nonprofit charity that aids members of the Coast Guard, will help the military and civilian workforce in need, said Adm. Karl L. Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard.

The U.S. Coast Guard saw a nearly fivefold increase in the number of migrants it intercepted off the coast of southern California in 2018, underscoring the challenge that will remain in stopping illegal migration even if President Donald Trump secures funding for his southern border wall.

The service is preparing for about 41,000 members to go without paychecks on Tuesday as part of the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Though the other military service branches — the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and the Marine Corps — are part of the Department of Defense, which has been unaffected by the shutdown, the Coast Guard falls under the Department of Homeland Security which is affected.

The Coast Guard has reprimanded a Coast Guard officer in South Carolina for flashing a white supremacy hand sign on live television.

Since the beginning of the year, the Coast Guard’s 14th District’s 835 active-duty members and some essential civilian employees have been carrying out those missions without pay due to the partial government shutdown.

The Coast Guard removed the tip sheet, which was aimed at the service's 8,500-person civilian work force, from the support program's website late Wednesday morning after backlash.

The Coast Guard found a way to pay servicemembers through Dec. 31, but if the shutdown continues, they will not be paid on Jan. 15, the date of their next paycheck. That will include cadets at the Coast Guard Academy.

He was ordered to pay the money for a massive 2017 search that began when he falsely reported his wife had fallen overboard.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday he plans to introduce legislation in Congress this week that would provide paychecks for personnel in the Coast Guard, which is unfunded during the government's partial shutdown.

Earlier in the week, a Coast Guard spokesman had indicated that servicemembers wouldn’t be paid during the shutdown, which began Dec. 21 and shows no signs of ending soon.

McKenna Presnar was the only member of her family to survive after her father, Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class John Presnar, took his own life and murdered his wife and son on Dec. 16.

Arriving from Pascagoula, Miss., where it was built, the Kimball is the seventh of the Coast Guard’s new breed of national security cutters to enter the fleet since 2008.

Miami-Dade police and Coast Guard officials said Petty Officer First Class John Presnar, 44, fatally shot his wife, Gretchen, 39, and shot their children early Sunday at their home south of Miami. He then shot himself.

The Coast Guard is on the search for a man who reportedly went overboard from the Carnival Victory cruise ship off the Florida Keys. A call from the cruise ship said a 26-year-old passenger went overboard 35 miles south of Islamorada.

A report from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General found the Coast Guard Academy had retaliated against a black, female officer after she made discrimination and harassment complaints against her superiors, including the head of her department.

Democrats want $750 million to expand the Coast Guard’s small fleet of ships in the Arctic, where Russia has made inroads in recent years as the U.S. moves at a glacial pace.

Dr. Olivia Hooker was among the first black women to serve in the Coast Guard and retired as an associate professor of psychology at Fordham University in New York. But at the time of her death on Nov. 21 at 103, she had also become one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, often regarded as the deadliest episode of racial violence in American history.

The federal government has issued an ultimatum to Taylor Energy Co. to stop an oil spill that leaks up to 700 barrels of oil per day have leaked from a platform that was destroyed during Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

More than 18 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $500 million have arrived at Port Everglades. The haul, that was offloaded Thursday afternoon, is the result of eight U.S. Coast Guard cutters intercepting 15 different smuggling vessels and more than 50 smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America during the past month.

With a fleet of “go-fast” vessels and a support network stretching from Colombia to Mexico, the drug trafficking leader known as “Aquaman” coordinated the movement of more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine along the Eastern Pacific seaboard, bound for the United States.

In early October, East Island was decimated by Hurricane Walaka - one of the most intense storms ever recorded in the Pacific Ocean - and effectively wiped off the map overnight.

A 57-year-old tour helicopter pilot suffered an undisclosed medical condition at the time of Monday afternoon’s accident at the Kaneohe Bay sandbar, the tour company said.

The Honolulu Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Marines all responded to a downed private helicopter on a sandbar in Kaneohe Bay on Monday evening. The three people aboard all suffered serious injuries.

Philly Shipyard chief executive Steinar Nerbovik has his sights set on a kind of ship that hasn't been made in the U.S. in decades: a heavy polar icebreaker for the Coast Guard.

Forty years ago Saturday, the Coast Guard Cutter Cuyahoga was cruising north on Chesapeake Bay when it was struck by a 521-foot Argentine coal freighter. Eleven men died.

State police and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating the early-morning death of a Canadian man Tuesday who fell into the waters of the St. Lawrence River at the Eisenhower Lock. He fell while he was tying a ship off prior to entering the locks.

Over 10 days, the U.S. Coast Guard stopped three different boats — all of which were carrying drugs.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy medevaced an 83-year-old male Canadian passenger from a cruise ship about 150 miles north of Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii on Sunday.

The Defense Department has 2,216 active-duty personnel, 32 helicopters, 240 high-water vehicles and 32 swift-water boats ready to assist in relief efforts for the storm, which made landfall Wednesday afternoon.

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Crews aboard three Coast Guard cutters — the Stratton, the Seneca and the Active — confiscated the drugs from eight smuggling boats from late August to mid-September, officials said.

A proposal in Congress would require 50 percent of each incoming class at the Coast Guard Academy to come from a pool of congressionally nominated candidates.

A 78-year-old man suffering a possible stroke aboard a cruise ship off Nantucket was be evacuated by helicopter.

Scientists at sea on the largest ship in the Coast Guard’s fleet have seen signs of change as the ice in the north Bering Sea, the gateway to the Arctic from the Pacific Ocean, has been diminishing.

Paddlers who use the Potomac River near President Donald Trump's Loudoun County, Virginia, golf course filed a federal lawsuit Thursday morning to try to reverse a policy that closes a two-mile stretch of the river when the president is playing golf.

From hundreds of feet in the air, the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter spots boats navigating through large swaths of water. The tops of roofs are the only sign that the area in Brunswick County is a neighborhood instead of a river.

Chief Petty Officer Steve Kelly does the cabbage patch in the front seat of his lifted Ford pickup. "Who let the dogs out?" he sings as he swings his arms in a circle. "Coast Guard, Coast Guard." The other members of his Coast Guard team from Kentucky laugh or roll their eyes in embarrassment.

The Coast Guard Cutters Tahoma, Tampa and Seneca intercepted the six suspected smuggling vessels between late July and August in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

What was once Hurricane Florence has been plodding across North Carolina, turning cities into islands. The new landscape has pressed the Coast Guard, operating here many miles from the coast, into a combination of search and rescue service, FedEx and pet whisperer.

Servicemembers at North Carolina installations that felt the brunt of the storm were working Saturday to assess damage and warned that flooded streets and tornado threats should keep everyone who wasn’t required to report to stay sheltered. Navy ships and aircraft were heading back to Hampton Roads.

The Coast Guard was quick to apologize after a Coast Guard member flashed what some TV viewers claimed was a white power sign on MSNBC, saying the organization was aware of the clip and clarifying that it does not condone the flashing of the sign or what it represented.

A search that includes 17 FBI agents has yielded no sign of a 10-year-old girl who went missing in a remote, largely Inupiat Eskimo town north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western coast, prompting authorities to investigate whether foul play was involved. A Coast Guard helicopter and aircraft from wildlife troopers also have been used.

Tropical Storm Olivia — at times surging to a Category 1 hurricane during past days — is expected to arrive in the Hawaiian Islands Tuesday afternoon local time.

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The Navy said the primary explosion did not trigger a second, larger blast, indicating that the mine was inert. Navy officials said its “origins remain undetermined” and that an investigation is ongoing.

“Ben was holding onto my belt, and Randy was holding onto Ben. It must have looked like a circus,” Mike Sandidge said. They heard the child in the water doing three things: praying, apologizing, and promising never to do “it” again.

Environmental advocates are suing the U.S. Coast Guard on claims the federal agency is not prepared to clean up a Line 5 oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan.

The U.S. Coast Guard has referred the July 19 sinking of a Branson duck boat to federal investigators to pursue a possible criminal case.

A month on the job, and Ensign Dana Rohde was at the helm of a 225-foot-long, 2,000-ton seagoing buoy tender.

After days of being unable to find any trace of the drugs, Haitian police called for assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami. Together, they eventually found a fraction of the suspected stash — about 109 kilos of cocaine and almost 16 kilos of heroin — still concealed on the ship.

A private plane crashed off the coast of Mayport late Friday morning, but the pilot survived in good shape, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A Coast Guard boat and helicopter from Georgetown went out to help with the clean up after a barge capsized in waters off Surfside Beach on Wednesday. The barge was there to begin dredging for sand for beach re-nourishment.

Four days after a scuba diver reported seeing an "unexploded ordnance" in Hart's Cove, the Coast Guard determined it was "an old wagon wheel."

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.

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.

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.