HONOLULU – Four Hawaii-based and two California-based Coast Guard units, all globally deployable, concluded operations at the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 Exercise and returned to service of the residents of Hawaii and the Pacific region, Aug. 1. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters Midgett (WMSL 757) and Juniper (WLB 201), the Regional Dive Locker Pacific, Leer másCoast Guard units conclude participation in RIMPAC 2024[…]
PEARL HARBOR – Four Hawaii-based Coast Guard units concluded operations contributing to the largest Coast Guard participation in the history of RIMPAC and return to service of the residents of Hawaii and the Pacific region, Aug. 4, 2022. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters Midgett and William Hart, the Pacific Dive Locker, and Maritime Safety and Security Leer másCoast Guard Hawaii Units conclude RIMPAC 2022 participation[…]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard will conclude its annual operations in the Arctic Shield 2021 on Sunday with the seasonal closure of its Forward Operating Location in Kotzebue, Alaska. Air Station Kodiak aircrews and two MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters were forward deployed to Kotzebue to provide coverage and reduced response times to remote regions of Alaska during increased Leer másCoast Guard concludes Operation Arctic Shield 2021[…]
ALAMEDA, California — Coast Guard and San Francisco Fire Department personnel rescue (medevac) woman from a sailboat approximately 380 nautical miles west of Bodega Bay, Tuesday morning. Coast Guard 11th District Command Center watchstanders received a notification via satellite communicator at approximately 1:45 p.m. Monday, from the captain of the sailboat Cibola, reporting a 23-year-old woman Leer másCoast Guard rescue woman 380 nautical miles west of Bodega Bay[…]
HONOLULU — Coast Guard rescue aircrews medevac a mariner from the commercial fishing vessel “Vicious Cycle,” 130-miles southwest of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, Tuesday. The mariner was hoisted from the vessel by an Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew and brought to awaiting emergency medical services (EMS) at Queens Medical Center. His condition is Leer másCoast Guard helicopter aircrew medevac injured mariner off Hawaii Island[…]
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Crews aboard the pre-commissioned Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) seized more than 2,100 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $64 million from a low-profile go-fast vessel interdicted in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On July 25 a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk aircrew embarked aboard the USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) sighted Leer másCoast Guard’s newest national security cutter seizes more than 2,100 pounds of cocaine[…]
