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.

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.