Coast Guard
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
USCG Recruitment Woes
Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet recruiting goals, as noted in any of several articles posted here by the usual suspects. Stands to reason the malaise has reached the smallest service, too. Mick sends us an article on what lengths the Department of Homeland Security is willing to go to fill […]
Thank You for Your Heroic Service. You’re Fired.
Another Day at the Office In August 2021 Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered all uniformed personnel receive the Covid vaccine. “This is quite literally a matter of life and death for our Soldiers, their families and the communities in which we live,” said Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle, the Army Surgeon General. At the time […]
Houston Coasties saving migrants
Coast Guard from Houston TDY to the southern Rio Grande to reinforce Customs and Border Protection teams have been busy. During the recent upsurge in border crossings, they are seeing a corresponding surge of problems in water crossings. They watched the baby, facedown in the brown current, run past the boat’s propellers, swept away […]
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