Coast Guard Begins Upgrades to Puget Sound Homeport for New Polar Security Cutters The U.S. Coast Guard announced that it will spend up to $137 million to modernize its Base Seattle to homeport new, larger...
Coast Guard Commissions New Icebreaker, Sends it Directly to Sea The scheduled ceremony corresponded with the largest deployment ever of Chinese research vessels to the Arctic.
Coast Guard Temporarily Relieves Commanding Officer of Cutter Tampa Cmdr. Walter Krolman, who has led the medium endurance cutter Tampa for two years, was relieved for "loss of confidence,"...
This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America's Latest Military Vessel. The icebreaker Aiviq was built for oil work in the Arctic but has design issues. Its maiden voyage to Alaska ended in a...
One of the Most Popular Coast Guardsmen in History Was This Beloved Dog One of the most popular U.S. Coast Guardsmen in the history of the service had a tendency to sleep while on duty, did not...
Coast Guard's Newest Icebreaker to Honor Storis, the Historic Cutter Known for 6 Decades of Service An amateur photographer and ship buff took photos of the commercial icebreaker Aiviq last week sporting a coat of Coast Guard...
Coast Guard Announces Newest Icebreaker Will Head to Juneau as Healy Suffers Major Fire While the Coast Guard previously had said it favored Juneau as the ship's home station, officials said as recently as June...
Construction on Coast Guard's Much-Needed Icebreaker Could Begin by End of the Year, Service Says The service is renegotiating portions of its contract with Bollinger Shipyards and will have a more accurate timeline for the...
Money for Coast Guard Icebreaker, Key to Added Arctic Presence, Included in Newly Passed Funding After repeated requests, the Coast Guard finally will be able to buy a commercially available icebreaker.
Speed, Blind Spots Cited as Contributing Factors in Deadly Accident Involving Coast Guard Cutter The captain of the San Juan-based cutter Winslow Griesser was permanently relieved last month.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
