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Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard

| January 12, 2024 | 24 Comments
Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard

Force Alignment Initiative? Hampton Roads braces for effects of Coast Guard’s temporary deactivation of units amid staffing shortages By CAITLYN BURCHETT Coast Guard units will be temporarily deactivated in a consolidation this year as the service grapples with one of the largest workforce shortages in its history. What this means for Hampton Roads — home […]

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Coasties Rescued

| November 16, 2023 | 8 Comments
Coasties Rescued

You have to go out. You don’t have to come back. 2 injured in Coast Guard helicopter crash released from hospital By Tess Williams The U.S. Coast Guard said two of four crew members injured in a helicopter crash near Petersburg during a search and rescue mission late Monday night have been released from the […]

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Highest military court overturns convictions related to inappropriate messages

| October 30, 2023 | 17 Comments
Highest military court overturns convictions related to inappropriate messages

Fernando M. Brown, who was a Chief at the time he faced trial for inappropriate messages sent to a Chief-related group chat, saw a reduction to E-6. Brown also faced 30 days restriction and a reprimand. He retired after this event. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overturned convictions related to two […]

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Coast Guard Short 3,500

| October 19, 2023 | 13 Comments
Coast Guard Short 3,500

Coast Guard Short 3,500 Personnel in FY 2023, Fagan Says By: Heather Mongilio The Coast Guard is dealing with a shortfall of about 3,500 junior, non-rated members, the top leader of the service said Tuesday. Due to the shortfall, the Coast Guard is starting to identify billets it cannot fill as it goes into its […]

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The US Coast Guard arrests man attempting to ‘run’ from the US to the UK

| September 7, 2023 | 39 Comments
The US Coast Guard arrests man attempting to ‘run’ from the US to the UK

Reza Baluchi attempted to literally “run” from the United States to the United Kingdom. His means of running? A waterborne “hamster wheel.” Unfortunately, the U.S. Coast Guard cut his run short. After they asked him standard questions about his watercraft; they determined that it did not meet the standard to continue its job. Baluchi also […]

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Happy Birthday Coast Guard

| August 5, 2023 | 7 Comments
Happy Birthday Coast Guard

Day at the Office Happy Birthday Puddle Pirates! For the last 233 years, the men and women of the Coast Guard have been diligently safeguarding coasts and waterways at home and abroad. In 1790, Congress commissioned the Revenue Cutter Service, a fleet of 10 sailing vessels that patrolled America’s coastline to enforce tariffs and protect […]

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Titan rescue delayed by US paperwork

| June 21, 2023 | 85 Comments
Titan rescue delayed by US paperwork

In an astonishing display of bureaucratic ineptitude, the US Government successfully delayed rescue efforts to find the Titan submersible, missing while diving to the site of the 1912 Titanic sinking. A delay by US officials in approving paperwork is hampering the mission to find a submersible with five people trapped on board, an advisor to […]

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Even Thieves Get Rescued

| February 16, 2023 | 9 Comments
Even Thieves Get Rescued

PO3 John “Branch” Walton, USCG Great account of SAR from the wet perspective. Coast Guard Swimmer Recounts Dramatic Rescue of Alleged Oregon Yacht Thief and ‘Goonies’ Prankster By Aimee Green “They all could have got it done, but they let me go,” Walton said. “I was kind of in disbelief, like, ‘Oh, is this really […]

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