In addition, in the past year or so, Coast Guard cutters have been increasingly assisting with other missions in the Western Pacific. In 2019, the Waesche’s sister ships USCGC Bertholf and Stratton spent 326 days between them monitoring and gathering intelligence on vessels conducting ship-to-ship transfers in the East China, South China, and Yellow Seas to [...]
New London — When the coronavirus struck earlier this year, life at the Coast Guard Academy changed. Cadets, who were on spring break, were told not to return to campus, then brought back several months later in stages where they underwent testing and a quarantine period. Their classes remain remote, and they spend most of their days wearing masks [...]
“They had been in a traumatic situation for hours, no water, no food,” said Brett Cagle, with the United States Coast Guard from St. Petersburg. “You’re thinking you’re going to die for the last three hours of your life, you don’t really think right, it’s just a very stressful situation.” Article source: https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/09/21/coast-guard-rescues-capsized-vessel/
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Branyelle Carillo was facing the prospect of a summer marooned by the pandemic at the Coast Guard Academy in New London when she was called up for a mission: The U.S Coast Guard cutter Munro, bound for a patrol of the U.S. maritime border with Russia, had lost a tenth of [...]
The operations started in April 2020. Numerous agencies were involved in the seizures including the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, the United States Navy, the British Royal Navy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Article source: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/coast-guards-offloads-219-million-drugs-port-everglades/67-f9c02161-4890-4338-8bc1-73d064f54755
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP/CBS SF) — Branyelle Carillo was facing the prospect of a summer marooned by the pandemic at the Coast Guard Academy in New London when she was called up for a mission: The U.S Coast Guard cutter Munro, bound from Alameda to a patrol of the U.S. maritime border with Russia, had [...]
Residents of Delcambre are shifting to recovery mode, as the United States Coast Guard helps clean up the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. “It was hard to catch a lot of who left and who stayed,” said Lt. Collin McClelland. “So, this is as much an intel grab as it is getting people out of harm’s [...]
NEW LONDON — When the coronavirus struck earlier this year, life at the Coast Guard Academy changed. Cadets, who were on spring break, were told not to return to campus, then brought back several months later in stages where they underwent testing and a quarantine period. Their classes remain remote, and they spend most of [...]
Jan and Bob Scarpino of Port Clinton and Quilts of Valor Foundation members Jill Bothe and Mary Gill display the Quilt of Valor present to Scarpino for his 20 years of service with the U.S. Coast Guard. (Photo by Kathy Jo Schweitzer) Robert Scarpino of Port Clinton was honored last week for 20 years of [...]
Kaitlyn Mooney ran her second career race as a freshman for the Coast Guard Academy women’s cross country team in the fall of 2017 at the Williams College Purple Valley Classic at Williamstown, Mass., and promptly set the school record for a 6K in 22 minutes, 2 seconds. She placed second behind Ithaca’s Taryn Cordani, [...]