JULY 3, 2025 – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland’s crew offloaded approximately 2,220 pounds of cocaine and 3,320 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $20.1 million, Wednesday, at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach. The seized contraband was the result of four interdictions in the Caribbean Sea by the crews of HMCS William Hall and HNLMS Friesland with embarked Coast Guard law … [Read more...]
Pentagon Provides Update on Southern Border
JULY 3, 2025 - Approximately 8,500 military personnel attached to Joint Task Force Southern Border continue to enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection's ability to identify, track and disrupt threats to security at the southern border, the Defense Department announced today during a press conference at the Pentagon. Since being established in March of this year by U.S. … [Read more...]
Alaska Guard Rescues Family Stranded on River
Alaska Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 3 Nick Lime, an aviator assigned to 207th Aviation Battalion, assists six distressed people stranded on the Kuskokwim River during a rescue mission June 30, 2025. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the mission in response to an Alaska State Troopers request for assistance when the family’s boat became stuck on a sandbar … [Read more...]
US, Japan Sharpen Search and Rescue Skills
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Greg Molloy, 31st Rescue Squadron pararescueman, looks out of an HH-60W Jolly Green II before a personnel recovery exercise with the 33rd RQS during exercise Cope Angel 25-1, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, June 26, 2025. Cope Angel allows the 33rd RQS and 31st RQS to engage in training events with their Japan Air Self-Defence Force counterparts to … [Read more...]
DOD to Analyze Where Military Aid Goes
JULY 3, 2025 - Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the U.S. has provided Ukraine with nearly $66 billion in security assistance. Much of that assistance involved American military hardware and munitions pulled from U.S. inventory as part of presidential drawdown authority. Now, some assistance provided to Ukraine — as well as assistance to other nations … [Read more...]