The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its search for a 22-year-old man swept beyond the reef line while swimming at Tanguisson Beach on Guam after a three-day, multi-agency effort.
The trio pointed out that recent buildups of U.S. forces in the Middle East have relied on the Navy and Marines, while efforts to pressure Venezuela have relied heavily on Navy and Coast Guard forces.
Davie Defense Inc. will build three of the cutters in Texas and two in Finland under the contract. The five cutters will bring the total orders for the new ships to 11, with the first planned to be delivered in 2028.
Funding is set to run out Saturday unless Congress can agree on guardrails on federal immigration enforcement agents. A shutdown would shutter the department and, within it, the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard reached this milestone following recent interdictions of 13,337 pounds of cocaine by Coast Guard Cutter Seneca and 13,263 pounds by Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward, the service announced Thursday.
The presence of the destroyer comes as tensions continue to rise ahead of Saturday, the day marking the end of the mandate of Haiti’s nine-member Transitional Presidential Council.
The Coast Guard suspended its search for those aboard the Lily Jean. Authorities had launched a search and rescue mission after receiving an alert from the 72-foot vessel about 25 miles off the historic Cape Ann peninsula. They have since launched an investigation.
The service’s Court of Criminal Appeals this month denied Petty Officer 2nd Class Kathleen Richard’s petition to prevent prosecutors from having the ability to retry her.
Rescue crews learned that a group of three people were kayaking. Two of them began to drift far from shore before capsizing due to rough waves, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
