HEADQUARTERS

May 6, 2024

Eastern Caribbean Combined Coordination Group holds joint meetings to foster interagency coordination

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Eastern Caribbean Combined Coordination Group (ECCG) held a meeting April 23-25, in San Juan, to discuss increasing coordination to unify action against illicit market-driven flows that include human trafficking, human smuggling, the export of arms and monetary instruments, environmental crimes, and the movement of illicit drugs within the Eastern Caribbean Joint Operating Area. Transnational Criminal Organizations conducting this sort of malign activity along the maritime approaches to the U.S. Southeast Maritime Border – threaten maritime security, the rule of law, and ultimately, regional stability.

May 6, 2024

Media Availability: First Coast Guard District to hold change of command ceremony

Editor's note: News media interested in attending are asked to RSVP with Coast Guard External Affairs at d1publicaffairs@uscg.mil by 3 p.m., Thursday. BOSTON — The First Coast Guard District is scheduled to host a change command ceremony, Friday. During the ceremony Rear Adm. Michael Platt, a Boston native, will relieve Rear Adm. John Mauger as the commander of the First Coast Guard District. Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, and previous First Coast Guard District commander will be presiding. What: Coast Guard First District change of command ceremony. When: Friday, May 10, 11 a.m., news media are requested to arrive no later than 10:30 a.m. Where: Coast Guard Base Boston, 427 Commercial St, Boston, MA 02109. The Coast Guard First District’s missions span across eight states in the northeast including over 2,000 miles of coastline from the U.S. and Canadian border to northern New Jersey and 1,300 miles offshore. The district includes more than 12,000 active duty, reserve, civil servant and auxiliary personnel. In an average year, the First Coast Guard District saves 427 lives, conducts 2,392 search and rescue cases, assists 4,536 people, and safeguards approximately $115,000,000 in property at sea. The change-of-command ceremony is a time-honored military tradition that marks a transfer of total responsibility and authority from one individual to another. The ceremony is conducted in order to formally demonstrate the continuity of authority within a U.S. military command.

May 6, 2024

US Coast Guard Cutter Diligence returns home following Gulf of Mexico fisheries patrol and response to Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence (WMEC 616) returned to their home port in Pensacola, April 27, 2024, after a two-month deployment spent conducting a living marine resources patrol in the Gulf of Mexico, undergoing a maintenance availability at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, and later responding to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Diligence’s crew patrolled within the U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District area of responsibility, based in New Orleans, and supported Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi’s efforts to counter illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in U.S. territorial waters.

May 6, 2024

Feature Story: Mentoring the nation’s future

For U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Kathryn Rubio, from Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Cyber and Intelligence Service Center (C5ISC) in Kearneysville, West Virginia, and Lt. James Eggers, the command center chief at Sector Delaware Bay, Philadelphia, the 62nd annual United States Senate Youth Program offered an opportunity for a mutual beneficial exchange with the nation's next generation of leaders.

May 5, 2024

Coast Guard terminates voyage of an illegal charter vessel in Lake Havasu, Arizona

Lake Havasu, ARIZ. – The Coast Guard terminated an illegal charter of the 25-foot Pontoon, in the vicinity of Thompson Bay in Lake Havasu, Ariz., April 27, 2024. A Coast Guard boarding team conducted a safety boarding of the vessel with 10 people aboard. There were nine passengers for hire and one non-credentialed crew member.

May 3, 2024

Coast Guard medevacs 12-hour-old baby from flood-impacted Cleveland, Texas

HOUSTON — The Coast Guard medevaced a 12-hour old baby girl from flood-impacted Cleveland, Texas, Friday.

May 3, 2024

Coast Guard, other agencies respond to sunken vessel near Henry Island, Washington

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology, and San Juan County officials are responding to a vessel that sank Friday just west of Henry Island, Washington.

May 3, 2024

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active returns home from Eastern Pacific patrol; one life saved, $50.8M worth of cocaine interdicted

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC 618) and crew returned home to Port Angeles Friday after completing a 54-day multi-mission patrol in support of a Joint Interagency Task Force-South (JIATF-S) counternarcotics patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

May 3, 2024

Coast Guard, Pennsylvania National Guard retrieve beached buoy in Delaware Bay

 Editor's note: click image to download high-resolution video PHILADELPHIA—The crew of the U.S.

May 3, 2024

Coast Guard relieves Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Reserve

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coast Guard temporarily relieved Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Reserve Timothy Beard, Friday.