PORTSMOUTH, Va.– The USCGC Escanaba and a HITRON detachment returned home with 3,5 tons interdicted in cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The crew of the Cutter returned home to Portsmouth after 51-day patrol. Monday, November 20, 2023. Patrolling in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South, Escanaba worked alongside other Coast Guard Cutters, Department of Leer másUSCGC Escanaba and HITRON interdicts 3,5 tons in cocaine[…]
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard crews rescue four overdue boaters 19 nautical miles offshore Matagorda, Texas. Friday, November 17, 2023. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi command center watchstanders received a call at 8:04 p.m. Thursday from the daughter of a boater stating her father had not returned since departing at 8 a.m. He Leer másCoast Guard rescue 4 overdue boaters offshore Matagorda, Texas[…]
CAPE MAY, N.J. — The Coast Guard crews rescue a overdue sailor 270 nautical miles offshore Hatteras, North Carolina. Wednesday, November 15, 2023. Coast Guard Sector New York watchstanders received a report of lost communications from the family of the sailor who departed Jersey City, New Jersey, en route to Bermuda, stating that they lost Leer másCoast Guard rescue sailor 270 nm offshore Hatteras, NC[…]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard aircrew injured in the MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crash Monday night in Alaska, on Read Island, continue to receive medical care, and the search and rescue case for fishing vessel Lydia Marie is complete. As of Tuesday afternoon, the four service members from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka involved in the Leer másUpdate 01: Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crash in Alaska[…]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew crash with four aboard on Read Island during a search and rescue mission. Monday 13, November, 2023 at night. Rescue crews from Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Petersburg Fire and Rescue arrived on scene at approximately 12:50 a.m., and a second MH-60T Jayhawk Leer másCoast Guard MH-60 helicopter crash in Alaska during a mission[…]
Charleston, S.C. – The crew of the USCGC James returned home to Charleston following a 113-day patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and with 380 million dollar seized in narcotics. Saturday, November 4, 2023. Patrolling in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South, James worked alongside other Coast Guard Cutters, Department of Defense and Department of Leer másUSCGC James seized 380 million dollar in narcotics[…]
HONOLULU — The USCGC (Coast Guard Cutter) Kimball (WMSL 756) returned home to Honolulu after an 85-day multi-mission patrol covering 14,000 nautical miles spanning from the Hawaiian Islands to north of the Arctic Circle. Wednesday, November 1, 2023. The crew provided search and rescue coverage and conducted living marine resources (LMR) and counter Illegal Unreported Leer másUSCGC Kimball returns Honolulu after multi-mission patrol[…]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The USCGC Confidence (WMEC 619) and a HITRON detachment returned home following a 62-day anti-drug patrol to the Caribbean Sea. September 20, 2023. The Cutter Confidence has its homeport in Cape Canaveral and the MH-65 Dolphin aircrew from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) in Jacksonville. From their homeport in eastern Florida, Leer másUSCGC Confidence and HITRON crew returns after anti-drug patrol[…]
KEY WEST, Florida – The USCGC Thetis crew (WMEC 910) and a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from the HITRON seized 70 million dollar in narcotics during a counter-drug patrol. The Coast Guard Cutter Thetis returned homeport to Key West following a 55-day patrol in the Western Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. Friday, September 15, Leer másUSCGC Thetis and HITRON seized 70 million dollar in narcotics[…]
MIAMI – Border Patrol agents assigned to the Miami Sector, along with Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations (CBP AMO), the Coast Guard, and local law enforcement partners within Homeland Security Task Force – Southeast, responded to a migrant landing at the Dry Tortugas National Park, approximately 70 nautical miles east of Key Leer másCoast Guard and partners rescue missing migrant in Dry Tortugas[…]
