McGougan joined the Coast Guard and moved to Florida. "They taught us how to disable boat engines from the back of the helicopter with sniper rifles," he recalls. "Some of the drugs, you know ...

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

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

But McGuinness and dozens more, including P.O. Seth Kowsky, have now seen that kind of disaster not once, but twice in the ...

The Coast Guard response to the Washington D.C. plane crash in January included 278 personnel, 11 small boat stations and five cutters.

VIDA, Ore. (KTVZ) – A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew lowered a rescue swimmer to a car that crashed into the swirling waters of the McKenzie River Wednesday night. They lifted the injured ...

The US Coast Guard faces a $7 billion backlog in infrastructure improvements. Deferred maintenance and insufficient budgets have worsened the Coast Guard's infrastructure issues. Piers ...

A boatload of Russian nationals and migrants from the Dominican Republic were intercepted in US waters and turned over to federal immigration and border patrol authorities, the Coast Guard reported.

Bollinger Shipyards is moving forward with design work and construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in five decades, part of a program that has faced repeated delays and cost ...

It was on that day that United States Coast Guard Cutter Stone, whose homeport is Charleston, used its Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron, known as HITRON, to detect a suspicious vessel in ...