“Serving as the final crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro, the last 378-foot cutter in the Coast Guard has been an exciting and rewarding experience for myself and my shipmates,” said Capt. Riley Gatewood, commanding officer of the Douglas Munro. “During my time aboard I h...
Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Jetta H. DiscoThe Coast Guard Cutter Rush, homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii, joins the French frigate Prairial, of the French Marine Nationale, homeported in Tahiti, for a multilateral law enforcement effort in the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 25, 2010. The Rush and...
CGC McCULLOCH, 4" round, Ocean Station Vessel, Boston, Massachusetts, before 1972, (W1417=) CGC McCULLOCH, 5" round, Ocean Station Vessel, -1962-1966, (W1408=) (courtesy of Larry Brooks, CAPT, USCGR(Ret)) CGC McCULLOCH, shield, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1967-, reproduced 2007 ...
high seas, and partner nation EEZs. “It’s a great expanse of ocean,” he said. “So where the Coast Guard might have done fewer than 10 boardings in a patrol in the past
The Coast Guard was relatively late in acquiring its own aircraft, and did not receive its first aircraft until the 1920s. The first Coast Guard aircraft was a Vought UO-1, borrowed in 1925 from the Navy for a year. It was used to fly patrols to combat rum-running during Prohibition. ...
The Coast Guard fleet is getting a long overdue stem-to-stern overhaul. Coast Guard cutters, from small to large, conduct a variety of missions, but their
Two Coast Guard HH-65C Dolphin helicopters from Air Station Miami fly in formation over the Atlantic Ocean. The most numerous helicopter in the Coast Guard today, the HH-65 has been improved through a number of modifications into the HH-65C. Coast Guard photo by PAC Dana Warr. ...
A focus of early patrols for one of the Coast Guard’s predecessors, the Revenue Cutter Service, was the area around the Pribilof Islands, where 80 percent of the world’s northern fur seals returned each year to give birth and breed. ...
A Coast Guard C-27J aircrew, assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, flies along the California coastline during area familiarization training, Feb. 6, 2018. The C-27 Spartan.The Coast Guard’s original acquisition plan called for a fleet of 36 Ocean Sentries, but Congress, in the ...
Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric J. ChandlerAn Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules airplane crew deploys a portable dewatering pump to a simulated vessel in distress in the channel adjacent to downtown Kodiak, May 26, 2012. The pump deployment was part of the Coast Guard's...