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Coast Guard cutter transits Taiwan Strait after Blinken’s China visit
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stratton conducted a “routine Taiwan Strait transit” on June 20, according to the Navy.
Coast Guard: Wreck found in Atlantic is storied cutter Bear
The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found.
Iran rejects claim that its speedboats sparked encounter with US vessels in Strait of Hormuz
It was the second time in two weeks that a U.S. ship opened fire to warn vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
US Coast Guard cutter Maui fires 30 warning shots at Iranian fast-attack boats harassing Navy, USCG ships
A total of 13 Iranian fast in-shore attack craft were involved in a high-speed approach of six U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
By Diana Stancy
US Coast Guard decommissions storied cutter in Alaska
The cutter Douglas Munro was decommissioned in a ceremony in Kodiak on Saturday.
Best pics of the week: Feb. 7, 2021
Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star in the Bering Strait, 83-year vigil of the Tomb of the Unknown, and B-52 refueled over Central Command area, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
Navy, Coast Guard seized $211 million worth of drugs from Pacific smugglers
The 11,400 pounds of cocaine and 9,000 pounds of marijuana was offloaded from the USS Gabrielle Giffords on Monday, a Coast Guard statement said.
Check out these otherworldly photos from a Coast Guard cutter’s trip into the Arctic
The crew patrolled a total of more than 10,000 nautical miles and reached as far north as the 72nd parallel.
By Jon Simkins
Coast Guard crew saves ship from fire while underway in 7th Fleet
The blaze broke out Sunday in the exhaust stack of the national security cutter Waesche.
Great power competition heats up in the thawing Arctic, and the US must respond
Russia and China have been busy in a rapidly changing Arctic, and America seems to have barely noticed.
By Bradley Bowman and Maj. Scott Adamson
Watch the Coast Guard shoot at a shark for trying to join a swim call party
Unfortunately for the shark, the Coast Guard is known to enforce a strict “We prefer to keep our limbs” policy.
By Jon Simkins