AIR STATION KODIAK, Alaska -- Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team West members prepare to fast-rope from a 210th Rescue Squadron Alaska Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopter onto the Coast Guard Cutter Cypress at Kodiak, Alaska, Jan. 11, 2023, during a joint service training exercise. MSRT West members maintain a ready alert force to … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Tracking Russian Vessel Off Hawaiian Coast
JANUARY 19, 2023 — In recent weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard has continued to monitor a Russian vessel, believed to be an intelligence gathering ship, off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands. While foreign military vessels may transit freely through the U.S. economic exclusive zone (EEZ), as per customary international laws, foreign-flagged military vessels have often been … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Recruits Now Learn English in Basic Training
DECEMBER 30, 2022 - On August 16, 2022, five new recruits got off the bus at Training Center Cape May, N.J., to begin a pilot recruit training program for the Coast Guard – the English Language Training Program or ELTP. Since as early as 2019, at the Council on Recruit Basic Training (CORBT), the Coast Guard brought up the struggles that recruits that spoke English as a … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Begins Ice-Breaking Operation in Great Lakes
DECEMBER 28, 2022 – The U.S. Coast Guard has commenced Operation Coal Shovel on Monday, December 26, 2022. Operation Coal Shovel is the domestic ice-breaking operation with an area of responsibility spanning from southern Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair, to the St. Clair / Detroit River system, and into Lake Erie and Lake Ontario including the St. Lawrence Seaway. U.S. and … [Read more...]
Coast Guard Leverages Aviation Workhorse in Oceania
DECEMBER 27, 2022 - Guam is home to three 154-foot fast response cutters commissioned in 2021. These ships are built in Lockport, Louisiana. After initial workups, they sailed from Key West through the Panama Canal, more than 10,000 miles to Guam. In the time since the crews have stayed busy conducting the U.S. Coast Guard's core missions in Micronesia and supporting our Blue … [Read more...]