The NDAA puts the Coast Guard on a strong course forward U.S. Coast Guard The Don Young Coast Guard Authorization Act does a great job of setting the Coast Guard up for success in the years ahead. As ...
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As New USCG Icebreaker Breaks Shipyard, Bollinger Expected To Take Over Halter Marine
The U.S. Heavy Icebreaker Program is in trouble. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. While nothing is certain, Bollinger Shipyards is expected to announce Monday morning that it ...
A Cook Shortage Threatens To Sink U.S. Coast Guard Operations
This Cutter spent 43 days at sea, supported by a single cook, carrying extra food in an external … [+] freezer. U.S. Coast Guard In a reminder that high-tech militaries are only as strong as the...
Coast Guard Says Main Drive Shaft Issue Puts OPC Delivery Schedule ‘At Risk’
Delivery of the first Offshore Patrol Cutter is at risk. Eastern Shipbuilding Group In a sign of impending trouble for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program, the U.S. Coast Guard reports that a pro...
Russian Overreach Gives New Urgency To Arctic Emergency Drills
Exercise Argus participants meet off Greenland. U.S. Coast Guard It is no secret that the consequences of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine stretch far beyond the European battlefield. In the far n...
Fed Up, Congress Considers Giving Coast Guard The Navy’s Small Ship Funding
The U.S. Coast Guard’s smallest cutters are forward deployed and ranging into strategic waters. MediaNews Group via Getty Images As the U.S. Navy continues a long, forty-year trend of moving awa...
The Coast Guard’s MH-65 Helicopter Fleet Is Headed For Trouble
Coast Guard Dolphin Helicopters are heading into trouble. U.S. Coast Guard The Coast Guard’s aging fleet of 98 Airbus MH-65 Dolphin helicopters are an integral part of the U.S. Coast Guard, handling m...