VIDEO: Coast Guard Crewman Turns Back Shark With Rifle Fire
Coast Guard crew aboard the USCG cutter Kimball got quite the shock recently during an open water swim call. ...
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REPORT: Every Branch Is Ordering the Modular Handgun System
A couple of weeks ago, it emerged that the U.S. Marine Corps had earmarked funds to buy 35,000 Army Modular Handgun ...
Federal Premium to Supply US NSWC Crane With .40-Cal Training Rounds
Federal Premium has won a contract to supply U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center-Crane Division, which operates under the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea ...
Navy, Marines, Coast Guard to Release Revised Maritime Strategy
For the first time in seven years, the Navy and its sister services are set to release an updated version ...
Coast Guard’s Sand Key Station Receive New Response Boats
US Coast Guard Station Sand Key recently added two 29-foot Response Boat-Small II platforms to replace two older 25-foot models.
Coast Guard Seizes More Than $32 Million in Cocaine
The U.S. Coast Guard said it seized more than $32 million worth in cocaine from a freighter in the Caribbean ...
55th Interservice Pistol Championships Being Held at Fort Benning This Week
Both individual and teams matches to be held at USAMU's annual pistol championships using .22-caliber, .45-cal, center fire and service ...
Lockheed Wins $69M Coast Guard Contract for C4ISR System
Lockheed Martin will install its C4ISR system on the United States Coast Guard’s seventh National Security Cutter (NSC), the future ...
U.S. Coast Guard Needs More Ships for Anti-Drug Operations
The Coast Guard wants more ships to help close in on their goal of seizing 40 % of the 890 ...
Operation Homefront Names 2014 Military Child of the Year Recipients
Operation Homefront has named the five teenagers who received the 2014 Military Child of the Year award.
U.S. Navy, Coast Guard Gear Up for Fleet Week New York
Three U.S. Navy ships and two U.S. Coast Guard cutters will take part in the 26th Fleet Week New York.
NJ Families Host Coast Guard Recruits Over Christmas | VIDEO
Operation Fireside works to find homes for Coast Guard recruits to spend Christmas.
Haskell to build USCG Home Porting Fast Response Cutters
Haskell has been awarded a $4.6 million design-build contract for USCG Home Porting Fast Response Cutters at US Coast Guard ...
HIGH SEAS FLASHBANGS
Warning blasts give the flash and substance to end the chase!
US Coast Guard member killed in crash off California coast
A smuggler's vessel rammed a small U.S. Coast Guard boat off the Southern California coast, killing one Coast Guard member ...
Coast Guard defends using live animals in combat medical training.
The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group ...
Coast Guard purchases two more HC-144 Ocean Sentry maritime patrol airplanes.
The Coast Guard’s HC-144A Maritime Patrol Aircraft flies over a ship. An option was exercised on April 4 to buy ...
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act: Armed guards will protect U.S. cargo vessels against pirates.
Members of a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team from the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) and U.S. ...
Coast Guard: Marine F/A-18 Hornet crew rescued off San Diego coast.
The crew of a Marine Corps fighter jet that crashed into the Pacific Ocean was rescued early Thursday after spending ...
Coast Guard helicopter rescues 5 from sinking boat off Alaska coast.
A helicopter rescue crew airlifted five people from a sinking fishing boat off the Alaska coast, the Coast Guard said. ...