The US Coast Guard’s precision marksmen program is one of the most specialized sniper roles in the military. Trained to fire from helicopters at high-speed vessels, these snipers operate within ...

The Coast Guard had donated the helicopter to the school in 1989; the school agreed to trade it to the association for a more modern aircraft—an HU-25 Falcon—that was being retired.

USS Spruance (DDG-111) and a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescued 18 people aboard a disabled vessel approximately 50 ...

But McGuinness and dozens more, including P.O. Seth Kowsky, have now seen that kind of disaster not once, but twice in the last 12 months — the D.C. collision in the Potomac and the collapse of the ...

An 18th person was also aboard the 35-foot boat, which was sinking, when the Coast Guard sent out a helicopter.

The Philippine coast guard condemned “dangerous” manoeuvres by a Chinese navy helicopter today that it said flew within 3m of a surveillance flight carrying a group of journalists over the ...

Nicholas Irving, a former special-operations sniper and an author ... eight years as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot. He breaks down several Coast Guard rescues. Former Royal Marines Commando ...