He also ensured the Coast Guard began receiving necessary funding to commence acquisition of the nation's first new polar icebreaker in more than 50 years. As commandant, Zukunft led the service’s efforts to respond to the unprecedented 2017 hurricane season, where Coast Guard personnel saved or...
Coast Guard commandant: The US has fallen far behind Russia in the ArcticBryant Jordan
The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Mellon (WHEC 717) moors at U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak's fuel pier in Kodiak, Alaska, July 10, 2020. Commissioned in 1968, the Mellon stopped in Kodiak during their final patrol before the cutter's scheduled August 20, 2020, decommissioning. (U.S....
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, was ousted by the Trump administration with no explanation Monday.
Without getting too far into the weeds here, Gen. Alexander Vandegrift, Commandant of the Marine Corps, successfully campaigned during discussions with the CNO during an August 1944 conference at Pearl Harbor, to get Marine aircraft squadrons on carriers– ideally on ships dedicated to air support...
including the ones who removed me from breaking up a fight between a disgruntled crewman and Master of a ship impounded under the UN Oil Sanctions on Iraq, for which the crew gave me the nickname“Battle Chaps.”Not only was I unarmed, but because of a shortage of Kevlar armor plates fo...
The youngest active duty Marine ever promoted to the rank of general and the first active duty Marine Naval Aviator to be promoted to a 4-star rank, became Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps on April 1, 1972. He was promoted to general on March 31, 1972. General Keith B. ...