Connecticut lawmakers, joined by some of their colleagues in Congress, are asking the head of the Coast Guard how the service plans to address "racial disparities" at the Coast Guard Academy.

A deep dive operation will be conducted to determine whether oil is leaking from a British tanker sunk by a German U-boat off Long Island during World War II.

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After seeing too many tragedies — they’ve spotted people in the river who were already dead — Randy Kohl and the crew said it was meaningful to be able to save someone, though they weren’t expecting to be honored by the Coast Guard and Ramsey County sheriff’s office.

Robert J. Birrane Jr., a decorated Vietnam veteran who rose to become a senior Coast Guard Auxiliary officer, died May 30. “Bob emerged from his experience in Vietnam with a Bronze Star for heroism in combat," said Art Pine, a former reporter.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday thanked the Coast Guard for helping save thousands during Hurricane Harvey last year, but he also made a claim that took many Texas leaders and first responders by surprise.

Since 2005, Texas A&M University at Galveston hasn't had a training ship large enough to accommodate the students enrolled in Texas A&M Maritime Academy. Cadets need to sail a specified number of hours to earn a certification that will set them up for maritime careers, whether in the U.S. Coast Guard or aboard a merchant ship.

At a change of command ceremony on Friday, President Donald Trump said America is safe because the U.S. Coast Guard is strong. Trump called the Coast Guard the "elite force" that defends borders, patrols the waters, protects U.S. cities and keeps enemies at bay.

A bill authorizing funding for the Coast Guard includes a provision that would enable the service to pay for design and engineering work for the National Coast Guard Museum planned in downtown New London, Connecticut.

Capt. Kevin Lopes was removed as the head of the Coast Guard Academy management department "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead the department," a spokesman said. But he's still teaching at the academy.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew offloaded on Tuesday more than $78 million worth of cocaine in San Diego, just a portion of the drugs seized during patrols off the coast of Central America this month, an official said.

Coast Guard Capt. Martha J. LaGuardia's career ended earlier this month where it began 33 years ago, at Coast Guard Station Destin, Fla.

Bruce Melnick and Daniel Burbank are the only two Coast Guard members to become NASA astronauts.

Rear Adm. Francis Pelkowski served as the Coast Guard’s deputy commandant for operations and as senior reserve officer. He oversaw the readiness of 7,000 reservists who respond to emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

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In its 27th year, Norfolk's annual Marine Firefighting School's five-day course brings together more than 100 students from regions as close as Norfolk and as far-flung as Singapore to better equip them to handle the unique dangers of ship borne firefighting.

The U.S. Coast Guard has ended the search for a crew member of the MSC Seaside who fell overboard early Wednesday. The crewmember went overboard from the seventh deck of the Maltese-flagged cruise ship at around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

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Coast Guard K9s, outfitted with a harness, goggles and ear protectors, are raised and lowered from a California Highway Patrol helicopter from a runway with their handlers.

The Coast Guard removed buoys last March in Little Egg Inlet between Long Beach Island and Brigantine Island and advised boaters that they traversed the inlet at their own risk due to shallow depths create by the shoaling.

The Frying Pan Tower, a former Coast Guard light station built 34 miles off North Carolina's coast, is being put up for auction by the Charlotte man who turned it into the world's strangest bed and breakfast.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has reached a first-ever agreement with the Coast Guard to work on a wide range of technologies, from future development of drones to artificial intelligence, officials said.

The agency says the new vessels are capable of deploying independently to conduct missions that include coastal security, fishery patrols, search and rescue and national defense.

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The Coast Guard assisted seven boaters after their vessel began taking on water west of La Jolla on Friday morning.

He commands U.S. Coast Guard forces from the shores of East Africa to the Rocky Mountains, rescuing mariners at sea, enforcing fishing laws, interdicting smugglers and protecting America’s ports, and Vice Adm. Fred M. Midgette says his Coasties need more money.

A volunteer flotilla of pleasure boats, fishing boats and personal watercraft joined a U.S. Army Chinook, a Hawaii Air National Guard Black Hawk and two Kauai County Fire Department helicopters ferrying stranded campers, hikers, tourists and residents out of the tiny, storm-isolated community of Haena on Kauai.

Ingalls Shipbuilding has been awarded a $94 million fixed-price contract to purchase materials in advance of construction of a new National Security Cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard rescued three people in a boat on the Columbia River that was taking on water near the Port of Vancouver early Saturday evening.

The cutter Sherman, the Coast Guard’s last active warship to have sunk an enemy vessel in combat, was decommissioned in Honolulu on Thursday.

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The plus-sized pooch — named George Jefferson — travels in a carrier that weighs an additional 100 pounds to his 221-pound frame. After United Airlines’ recent decision to suspend its pet travel program, George's owner is left with few choices to bring her furry friend home.

The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf's crew also seized what’s known as a low-profile go-fast vessel — a type of boat designed to avoid detection while on the water — and three fishing vessels that were allegedly carrying narcotics during the patrol.

After 12 hours of searching across 112 square miles near Cape Henry, Virginia, the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 33-year-old crewman from the cargo ship Lara Venture.

Pending confirmation, Vice Adm. Karl L. Schultz is expected to relieve Adm. Paul Zukunft in a change-of-command ceremony scheduled for June 1 in Washington, D.C.

The Paddle Craft Risk Cold Water Danger system unveiled by Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads and the National Weather Service Wakefield will warn paddle sports enthusiasts of certain hazards. It mirrors a system in place in Maine.

The finished monument will include the sculpture in the center of a circular brick paver pad. Two stone walls will stand at the pad's north and south edges, one with stainless steel letters spelling "COAST GUARD CITY."

Hurricane-force winds caused a private dock to collapse Monday morning and up to 3,000 gallons of oil dumped into the water. High winds and seas kept pollution responders in boats from getting to the spill Wednesday.

Hurricane-force winds near Kodiak caused a dock to collapse on Monday morning, releasing up to 3,000 gallons of fuel into critical marine habitat, officials said.

Lewis Bennett is accused of killing his wife Isabella Hellman, of concocting a fake boating accident to make it all appear to be a tragic accident. The murder charges were filed the same day he was sentenced for stealing collectible coins, which the Coast Guard found on his life raft following his rescue.

A Newport News man who made a false distress call from his boat in the Chesapeake Bay, then threatened a Coast Guard officer who came to rescue him, was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison.

The leader of a heroic Outer Banks rescue team and a soldier who fought with the 36th U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War will have a bridge on N.C. 12 named after him.

Officials announced Friday that Capt. Andrew Tucci was removed from command of Sector Long Island Sound in New Haven, Connecticut, but did not say exactly why Tucci was reassigned.

The Northland interdicted five vessels, detained 16 suspected drug traffickers and seized 7,564 kilograms of cocaine during its 81-day deployment, according to the Coast Guard. The crew also conducted exercises with the Naval Forces of the Army of Nicaragua.

Traffickers continue to use the eastern Pacific Ocean as a transit route for drugs and the U.S. Coast Guard — and other international agencies — continue to pursue and catch them.

The U.S. Coast Guard has spent the last month looking for a suspect who made several calls to the Coast Guard’s Los Angeles command center, a felony that could land the caller in prison for up to six years.

Chief of Naval Operations John M. Richardson, Marine Corps commandant Gen. Robert Neller and Coast Guard commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft described the vital need for a steady funding stream to retrain and rearm services straining from nearly 17 years of constant counter-terror operations.

The second of three new Coast Guard cutters to be stationed in Hawaii arrived Sunday, strengthening the capabilities for search and rescue operations around Hawaii.

The U.S. Coast Guard plucked Samuel Moss Jr. from a newly purchased 21-foot Angler boat that was sinking in the Atlantic Ocean, 10 miles off the shore of Palm Beach County.

Meredith Sieller wants to be one of the Coast Guard's elite, the ones called on to perform unthinkable acts of bravery when someone's life is at stake. Like jumping out of a helicopter into rough, frigid waters some 30 feet below to save someone's life.

A sailor who was rescued by the Coast Guard after being lost at sea for 16 days spoke Tuesday for the first time about his ordeal.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a helicopter crew airlifted an injured sailor from a Navy destroyer off the Southern California coast.

The Coast Guard responded to reports that a 107-foot boat was adrift in Richardson Bay on Monday morning, boarded the boat and found Douglass Crandall. He was turned over to police when he gave suspicious answers about why the former Army tugboat was loose in the water, a police spokesman said.

The Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sized about 6,000 pounds of shrimp from a fishing vessel near the Dry Tortugas Shrimp Sanctuary Preservation area.

The death toll from massive debris flows that buried homes and cars under a torrent of mud and boulders rose to 17 in Montecito, where local personnel and the U.S. Coast Guard continued rescue operations Wednesday afternoon.

U.S. Coast Guard planes were continuing to fly over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning in search of a missing Oklahoma City pilot, the Coast Guard reports.

In a storm far worse than the "bomb cyclone" lashing the East Coast this week, 16 men tried to help deliver food to an icebound island.

A 62-year-old man was rescued off Maui after he was blown off course during a journey from Panama to Australia in a homemade boat, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

A Coast Guard petty officer on Thursday was found not guilty of child endangerment in a military court hearing connected to the death of his 3-year-old daughter.

The fuel depot is the Department of Defense's largest single-site fuel terminal in the United States. The depot provides military-grade fuel, lubricants and additives to U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels, and to those from allied nations like Canada.

A crewmember suffering a medical emergency was flown from a cruise ship more than 200 miles off Southern California to a hospital on shore.

Scott Johnson, firefighter and retired Coast Guard member who died of cancer this summer, made his final journey on Monday. About 500 mourners gathered for his funeral.

U.S. Coast Guard officials on Thursday formally kicked off a $23 million construction project that will provide new digs for the 150 servicemembers assigned to the agency's Woods Hole station.

Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the shortfall accounts for a backlog of ship and aircraft maintenance and repairs for hangars and other facilities damaged by the three devastating hurricanes this year within six weeks.

The drugs were seized during 14 separate drug smuggling busts in international waters off the coasts of Mexico and Central America, authorities said.

A Newport News man was convicted by a federal jury Monday of making a false distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard. He reported a “man overboard” while he was on his private boat off Cape Henry on June 20, 2016, according to court documents.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Dill was on his way to pick up his wife and her friends when he crossed paths with a drunken driver going the wrong way on the Interstate in Virginia. He later died of his injuries.

Officials say as many as 500 ships could litter local waters in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria, ranging from small personal sailboats to a ferry to a large yacht sunk on top of another vessel.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday identified the two missing men who were aboard the helicopter that disappeared Monday night off the northwest coast of Molokai.

The Coast Guard searched through the night Tuesday for two men aboard a helicopter that disappeared Monday night off the northwest coast of Molokai.

U.S. Coast Guard and Navy crews are searching for a private helicopter with two people on board that reportedly went down off the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 20 men from a 79-foot (24-meter) commercial fishing vessel that ran aground off the shore of Diamond Head near Waikiki.

About 80 privately-owned boats were pushed within 100 yards of Naval Air Station Key West during Hurricane Irma and now they must go.

After training for more than two years while living with their “puppy parents,” the dogs are now with the veterans they were trained to specifically help.

In a grim reunion, the families of El Faro mariners hugged and greeted each other quietly at a private memorial held at the Seafarers International Union Hall in Jacksonville. Four hours earlier, the U.S. Coast Guard made public its final investigative report into the sinking of the Jacksonville-based cargo ship.

The U.S. Coast Guard will release a final report Sunday on the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro on the second anniversary of the deaths of 33 mariners.

The U.S. Coast Guard is overseeing an operation that has turned the waterfront into a spectacle with two big cranes that hoists boats to the surface or out of the marsh and onto a flatbed truck that hauls them to a dump site.

The Honolulu-based Coast Guard cutter Sherman returned Wednesday after a 94-day, 16,000 mile patrol in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea in a region where melting sea ice is causing commercial and military activity to heat up as well.

The Coast Guard has set a record for cocaine seizures at sea for the second consecutive year, an effort that admirals are linking to border security as they look to build new ships while President Trump presses for a border wall.

More than 2½ years after he staged an elaborate attack on a fellow Coast Guardsman, shooting and killing her, and severely injuring her wife and a Bourne police officer, 33-year-old Adrian Loya was sentenced to life in prison.

Coast Guard divers jumped off the pier at Coast Guard Base Honolulu on Wednesday wearing nearly 32-pound steel “hard hats” connected to air lines in training dives to prepare for an annual inspection next week.

The U.S. Coast Guard closed the Columbia River to all vessel traffic east of Portland, Oregon, because of wildfire activity in the Columbia River Gorge.

The way the Coast Guard dispatched rescue teams by boat, high-water vehicle and helicopter was far from conventional. Rear Adm. Paul Thomas said it's too early to tell what the service may change after studying the Hurricane Harvey response, but having more people monitor social media accounts could be part of it.

Coast Guard Ensign Ryan Carpenter peered north through a front window of this 420-foot long ship, directing its bright-red hull through jagged chunks of ice hundreds of miles north of Alaska.

In late July, the Aqua-Guard Triton RotoX dipped into the icy Beaufort Sea. The goal was to test whether the prototype could clean up an oil spill in the Arctic.

The ice that caked the Polar Sea came from heavy freezing spray kicked up from turbulent water on a chilly day. Photographs show that the bow of his boat resembled the inside of a blast freezer.

The selection process got underway Monday for jurors who will decide the fate of Adrian Loya, the Virginia man charged in an elaborately staged attack in Bourne that left a fellow Coast Guard petty officer dead and her wife and a responding police officer seriously injured.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott activated the entire Texas National Guard on Monday, bringing the number of deployed Guardsmen to 12,000 as floodwaters in the Houston area continue to rise and more people evacuate growing flood zones.

Rising floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground Sunday in Houston, overwhelming rescuers who fielded countless desperate calls for help.

An oil boom is a temporary floating barrier deployed to prevent the spread of contaminants in water, including oil, in the event that a ship is damaged or has run aground.

After 11 years and some big changes, the Coast Guard is diving in the Arctic again, with an assist from the Navy.

After 11 years and some big changes, the Coast Guard is diving in the Arctic again, with an assist from the Navy. Dive capabilities were recently re-established aboard the Seattle-based Healy.

Buoy, a spunky 15-year-old red Labrador retriever, was gifted to the Destin U.S. Coast Guard Station in 2002. At just 6 weeks old, Buoy quickly became the station's beloved mascot.

President Donald Trump has proposed cutting that branch of service's budget by $1.3 billion, or 12 percent, which many say could affect the Coast Guard's ability to complete their mission of protecting the public, the environment and economic interests in ports and waterways.

The pilot, assigned to Fighter Squadron Composite 111, ejected about 20 nautical miles southeast of Naval Air Station Key West about 12:40 p.m. and was rescued by a Coast Guard crew a short time later.

The Destination went down amid tough winter weather that included snow, wind gusts of more than 39 mph and seas of more than 12 feet, according to information presented Monday as the Coast Guard began hearings into the crab-boat sinking that killed six crew members.

The Destination sits on the bottom of the Bering Sea, listing heavily to its port side and still carrying roughly a third of the steel-framed pots the six-man crew planned to use in a winter crab harvest off Alaska.

David Phung was amazed when he saw the viral video of him rescuing a woman and her dog from a sinking car during historic flooding in Louisiana last summer. "It was all adrenaline and reaction. Seconds seemed like minutes," Phung recalled Friday.

Newburyport has been designated a Coast Guard City, and on Thursday waves of curious visitors boarded service vessels at the Station Merrimack River open house to learn more about the equipment and technique of sea rescue that starts on local docks.

Retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Rodney Lee Buentello died June 8, 2016 after saving two teenagers from the Medina River in Bandera, Texas.