Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Adds details, background in paras 5-7, 10) MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Danish coast guards detained two Russian trawlers on Thursday, Russia's State Fisheries Committee said. The first Russian ves...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Danish coast guards detained two Russian trawlers on Thursday, Russia's State Fisheries Committee said. The first Russian vessel was detained on suspicion of poaching fo...
SpouseBUZZ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Frequent commenter and fellow milspouse/milparent LAW has just started up a blog for military parents called Parents Zone. From the blog: "A page for parents – a place to gather online to talk to other parents of serving soldiers/airmen/marines/sailors/coast guards/national...
military.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Coast Guard and nearly two dozen other federal, state and local agencies joined Thursday at four high-traffic shipping points in Boston in search of dangerous cargo inside inter-modal containers. Two teams situated at weigh stations north and south of the city on Interstate 95 inspected containers on trucks. Another team was located at the Brighton Rail Yard, and a fourth at the Conley Marine Terminal....
military.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A Coast Guard helicopter crew located and rescued a missing 78-year-old man in Galloway Township, N.J., near Scotts Landing. Rescued was Robert H. Williams of Galloway Township. The Coast Guard received a call at about 3 p.m. from a member of the Galloway Township Police Department requesting Coast Guard aerial assistance. The man had reportedly been missing since Tuesday evening....
military.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
District Seven search-and-rescue coordinators in Miami received a report from a man stating he had family members with no water aboard a disabled vessel approximately 75 miles south of Andros Island, Bahamas, Sunday. An HC-130 Hercules aircraft from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., was diverted to locate the disabled vessel. Once located by the aircrew, an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air...
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Paul Doughty, Linda Doughty, both of Keyport, N.J., and Berlinda and Antoinette Cole were sailing the Wolf when it began taking on water after the vessel apparently struck an unknown object in water. The vessel began flooding rapidly, and the group had no choice but to activate their emergency position indicating radio beacon to signal for help.
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
After a crewmember aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas spotted a possible man overboard, the Coast Guard rescue aircrew flew to the location, found the diver, and guided the Discoverer Deep Seas' small boat to the diver's location to pick him out of the water. A medic aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas assessed the diver's condition and he was transferred back to his dive vessel in good condition.
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - A Coast Guard rescue crew aboard a 25-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach, N.C., medevaced an injured man from a 28-foot sailing vessel in the Intracoastal Waterway 12 miles north of Wrightsville Beach.
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The veterans group for combat wounded troops whose mission is to preserve the integrity of the Purple Heart has come out against giving the award to troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
MIAMI - The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless repatriated 193 Haitian migrants to Cap-Haiten, Haiti, Monday. The Haitian migrants were located aboard two over-crowded sailboats Friday while the 210-foot cutter patrolled the waters off Haiti enforcing alien migrant interdiction operations.
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Coast Guard Station Jones Beach received the initial call that the Miss Edith, a clamming dredge owned by Bayhead Inc., Manahawkin, N.J., was submerged in roughly 20-feet of water and leaked 100-gallons of diesel fuel in the Hog Island Channel. The owner reported he had deployed a boom around the vessel to stop the leakage.
Timpu (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
New Delhi, May 7: Former Union minister Dr Subramaniam Swamy today told the Supreme Court that national security would be compromised if Sethusamundram canal project is completed ignoring the warnings given by the navy chief as well as director of coast guards according to whom the canal would facilitate the LTTE’s activities in India. Click [...]
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
MIAMI - Coast Guard and Custom and Border Protection Air and Marine crews working in tandem along Florida's coastlines have intercepted 10 suspected smugglers from Key West, Fla., to Miami during the last 24 hours and will transfer those individuals to CBP Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators for further questioning. The Southern District of Florida U.S. Attorney's...
military.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Willard Milam, an aviation survival technician from Soldotna, Alaska, was awarded the Admiral Chester R. Bender Award on May 2, 2008 for his participation in the rescue of four fishermen on Feb. 9, 2007. Stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, Milam was a key part of the HH-65 Dolphin crew that responded to the call from fishing vessel Illusion off Unalaska...
