Coast Guard Budget Request Funds Two of Three Major Cutter Programs
The Coast Guard’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget request calls for fully funding the next phases of the service’s two most…
Coast Guard Reshaping Body Fat Measurement Standard in Pilot Study
The Coast Guard, in an effort to take the stress out of gauging the physical fitness of its members, started…
Coast Guard Focused On Being Sea-Based In Arctic As Merits Of Deep-Water Port Debated
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For now, the Coast Guard is focused on being sea-based in the high latitudes even as talk…
Coast Guard Seeks To Bring New Bidders Onto Modified Offshore Patrol Cutter Contract
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A year after Hurricane Michael hit Florida’s panhandle, labor shortages in the region are causing the Coast…
Cutter Bertholf’s Indo-Pac Deployment Highlighted Coast Guard’s National Security Role
On its recent Indo-Pacific patrols, the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Bertholf (WSML-750) thwarted illegal oil and coal shipments that violated…
Schultz: Coast Guard Expanding Western Pacific Operations
KUALA LUMPUR – The U.S. Coast Guard will increase its presence and deployments to Asia – particularly around Oceania and…
Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter will be Homeported in Seattle
The U.S. Coast Guard’s polar icebreaking fleet will remain based in Seattle after delivery of its new class of heavy…
Coast Guard Hopes to Have 3 Polar Security Cutters Fielded by 2028
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Coast Guard hopes to have its first three heavy icebreakers fielded by 2027 or 2028…
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Mission to Africa
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Thetis (WMEC-910) is halfway through a 90-day mission to Africa’s Atlantic coast and already the crew…
Schultz: Coast Guard Readiness at a ‘Tipping Point’
Unlike the other military services, the Coast Guard has not received budgetary relief to eliminate its maintenance backlog and keep…