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U. S. Coast Guard Morning News Digest
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12/01/08
DOD Places Burden on Pregnant Spouses
Military spouses have one of the toughest jobs there is, being a full-time homemaker, mother, re-location expert and stress counselor for their husbands. They also have to perform these duties alone because more often than not their husbands are deployed. More ...
Coast Guard Warns of High Surf
The U.S. Coast Guard is advising mariners to take certain precautions over the next few days due to high surf conditions along the California coast. More ...
Obama Inherits Swamped Homeland Security
The Boston Globe said Sunday that around 75 percent of the agency staff in Washington has been on the job for less than two years and has become bogged down in running the sprawling $50 billion-a-year operation. More ...
Woman Swept out to Sea on Oregon Coast
The Coast Guard was unable to rescue a 22-year-old woman who fell off a cliff and was swept out to sea Saturday on the Oregon Coast. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Boaters
A U.S. Coast Guard rescue crew retrieved five boaters from a chilly Gulf of Mexico Sunday morning after their 21-foot fiberglass pleasure craft overturned south of Sand Island. More ...
Six People Rescued as Boat Sinks
Six people were rescued from a sinking boat off the coast of Cape May, according to officials. More ...
Coast Guard Finds Two Missing Jet Skiers Alive
Authorities have found the two missing jet skiers who went missing Sunday in Bayou Bienvenue in Chalmette. They are both alive and appear to be uninjured. More ...
Military Will Put 20,000 Soldiers in U.S. for Homeland Security Role
A plan to have troops ready to help local authorities respond to disasters has drawn criticism from armed forces, civil liberties groups. More ...
11/25/08
CG Rescues Man With Broken Leg
An Air Station Cape Cod Jayhawk helicopter hoisted an injured crewman from a New Bedford, Mass.-based fishing vessel 97 nautical miles southeast of New Bedford. More ...
Coast Guard Cutter to Return Home
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane is scheduled to return to their homeport of Portsmouth, Va., following a 31-day patrol which included migrant interdiction operations and a community relations project in Nassau, Bahamas. More ...
US Coast Guard to be Honored With Education Award
The United States Coast Guard Cutter, Sturgeon Bay, won the USCG Collaborative Partnership in Education Award for the 2007-2008 school year. More ...
Coast Guard's New UAVs
The goal is to make the best use of automated vehicles possible while still remaining within the tight Coast Guard budget for such technologies. More ...
The Ferocious Will to Live
In the early morning hours of June 7, 2008, Steven Conway, a retired Coast Guard commander, assessed his situation. More ...
Rotair Receives U.S. Coast Guard Contract
Rotair Industries, Inc. today announced the signing of a $1.2 million contract to provide the U.S. Coast Guard with rotor head hydraulics components for its HH-60 Jayhawk helicopters. Rotair Industries is a world leader in aftermarket helicopter repair parts.
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11/24/08
VIDEO: Coast Guard Makes Daring Rescue
The Elizabeth City Coast Guard made another daring rescue this past week and it was all caught on tape. More ...
CG Trains Specialists to Keep Watch
Following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Coast Guard joined with agencies such as the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Office of Naval Intelligence as a member of the national intelligence community, but until recently, the Coast Guard did not have any specifically designated full-time enlisted specialists dedicated solely to the intelligence mission. More ...
Water Rescuers Assist 2 Caught in Sinking Boat
Two men whose boat was sinking in Lake Erie’s Mosley Channel near Marblehead were unhurt Sunday after rescuers came to their aid, authorities reported. More ...
New Tall Ship to Teach Sailing, Travel Coast
Other states, such as South Carolina and Maryland, host tall ships with similar sailing education programs, but those tend to be smaller schooners, Bailey said. The three-masted, square-rigged Oliver Hazard Perry is intended as the second-largest sailing training ship in the country, behind only the USCG Eagle, the Coast Guard barque in New London. More ...
Coast Guard Rescues Father, Son Kayakers
The Coast Guard on Saturday afternoon rescued two kayakers who had capsized in choppy, 43-degree waters wearing only sweatpants and windbreakers. More ...
Coast Guard Pulls 4 Men off Sinking Tug in Gulf
It had to be a very scary situation for the 4 man crew of a tugboat just off the coast by Naples as their tug started to sink. More ...
Distress Call Probably a Hoax
U.S. Coast Guard crew responding to a distress call off Isle au Haut early Saturday morning scoured the ocean for more than 10 hours looking for a foundering fishing boat, but found nothing. More ...
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