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WATCH: Coast Guardsman Leaps Onto Cocaine-Packed Narco Submarine

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The Coast Guard wants additional ships to help make drug busts like the one seen in this picture. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland (WMEC 904), from Portsmouth, Va., seized over 2,400 pounds of cocaine and four bales of marijuana off the coast of Columbia March 10, 2007.

U.S. Coast Guard Needs More Ships for Anti-Drug Operations

A conceptual rendering of the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC)

US Coast Guard Awards Offshore Patrol Cutter Design Contract to Three Companies

The Philippine Navy (PN) has announced plans to upgrade two ex-US Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutters.

Philippine Navy to Upgrade Ex-US Coast Guard Cutters

Coast Guard to get Wasp III Drones from Marines

The U.S. Coast Guard will receive 20 Wasp III drones from the Marine Corps as part of a technology transfer program spearheaded by the Pentagon.

Border Law Partnership Formed Between US Coast Guard & Canadian Police

In St. Andrews, New Brunswick the Coast Guard Station Eastport and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Maritime Unit unite to enforce each country's law and regulations governing the coast. Such…

2 Boys Rescued By Coast Guard From New Jersey Marsh

A father and his two boys, ages 11 and 13 were fishing, when the boys became stranded when the tide went out. The father contacted the Coast Guard Air Station…

U.S. Coast Guard Discovers Attempts of Marijuana Smuggling

In San Diego, CA a U.S. Coast Guard cutter crew found a panga boat, 47 miles southwest of San Clement Island discovering it was being used to transport a large…

Injured Hikers Rescued By Coast Guard In Washington

Helicopters were sent by the Coast Guard to rescue two injured hikers, who had fallen about 50 feet into a ravine in Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, Washington. Petty Officer…

Former US Warship Arrives in Philippines

“Now that BRP Alcaraz has arrived, we will surely intensify our patrols in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone,” Aquino said in a speech as the US envoy to Manila and…

Fatal Hudson River Boat Crash Prompts Recovery Mission

On New York's Hudson River a speedboat crashed hurling a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man into the water, leaving the groom and three other injured—two weeks before the couple…

Intoxicated Man Rescued By Coast Guard Off Oregon

A man faces charges of boating under the influence near the mouth of the Columbia River after the Coast Guard rescued the man from a sinking fishing boat. The man…

Cruise Ship Passengers Aided By U.S. Coast Guard

Two MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crews from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City were dispatched, to the aid of two elderly cruise ship passengers, who needed emergency medical assistance while the…

U.S. Coast Guard On Alert for Human Trafficking from Haiti

The smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico is a new trend in the Caribbean, and possibly operated by family members in South Florida. “The…

“We Must Fight”—Reagan on the Will of the Warrior

As America honors it's fighting men and women on Memorial Day, the banner for which they fight on Flag Day and the freedom which they selflessly maintain on Independence Day,…

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COASTAL PATROL BOAT

Jeff Goldberg photo Throughout naval history, small and powerful vessels were a key element of maritime defense. From the American Revolutionary War till the present, patrol boats have been a…

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