JUNE 2, 2025 — U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle (WIX 327) will participate in Rose Festival and Fleet Week festivities, June 5-8. Eagle will be moored at Waterfront Park just south of the Burnside Bridge, where it will offer free public tours during the following dates and times: Thursday, June 5 (1 p.m. – 5 p.m.) Friday, June 6 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) Saturday, June 7 (10 … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Seizes $211 Million In Illicit Drugs
The crew of USCGC Thetis (WMEC 910) poses for a group photo behind more than 28,500 pounds of seized drugs worth more than $211 million at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 29, 2025. The crew seized the illicit drugs in four separate interdictions during a patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Diana … [Read more...]
Secretary Noem Delivers Academy Commencement Address
MAY 22, 2025 — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced Force Design 2028 (FD2028) Wednesday during the Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony. This initiative provides a blueprint to transform the Coast Guard into a stronger, more ready and capable fighting force. Speaking at the ceremony, Noem expressed respect for the Service and committed to advocating … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Locates Missing Vessel West of Guam
MAY 16, 2025 — The U.S. Coast Guard, with support from U.S. Navy and local partners, located the 47-foot vessel Lucky Harvest, carrying two mariners, which had been missing since departing Alamagan Island, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, on May 12, 2025, en route to Saipan. The vessel was found disabled and adrift west-southwest of Guam after the mariners … [Read more...]
Guard Aviation Partners with Coast Guard
MAY 15, 2025 – U.S. Soldiers with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade crewed a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to assist the U.S. Coast Guard by transporting three buoys May 7 in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay. During the winter, buoys are often displaced and washed up on beaches inaccessible to Coast Guard boats. The Chinook can move … [Read more...]