AUGUST 27, 2025 — Coast Guard Southeast District is leading a campaign, throughout Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, to inform the public of the risks and consequences associated with illegal passenger-for-hire charter operations ahead of Labor Day weekend. Coast Guard Southeast District crews urge anyone paying for a trip on a … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Rescues Man from Downed Aircraft
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescues a man from a downed aircraft near Haines, Alaska, Aug. 24, 2025. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft and had no reported injuries. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Air Station Sitka) AUGUST 26, 2025 — The Coast Guard rescued a man from a downed aircraft near … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Offloads Over 76,140 lbs. in Illegal Narcotics
AUGUST 26, 2025 – The U.S. Coast Guard achieved a historic milestone with the offload of 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics, valued at $473 million, marking the largest quantity of drugs offloaded in Coast Guard history, in Port Everglades, Monday. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton's crew offloaded approximately 61,740 pounds of cocaine and approximately 14,400 pounds of … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Creates Robotics and Autonomous Systems Office
AUGUST 20, 2025 — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday the Initial Operating Capability of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Program Executive Office (PEO). This PEO is a key component of the Service's Force Design 2028 (FD 2028) plan, aimed at integrating capabilities and is poised to be the most transformational enhancement to capability since the inception of … [Read more...]
Navy Seizes Nearly 1,300 Pounds of Cocaine
AUGUST 19, 2025 - A U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), embarked aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102), interdicted a suspected drug smuggling vessel and seized approximately 1,296 pounds of cocaine in international waters Aug. 11. Sampson, operating in a known drug trafficking corridor, identified a suspicious vessel … [Read more...]