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Kodiak's new Coast Guard cutters spur base building boom

A U.S. Coast Guard construction officer in Kodiak estimates that an additional 300 people will come to the base within the ...
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Coast Guard unloads record haul of cocaine, marijuana in Port Everglades

The cocaine and marijuana seized had a street value of nearly half a billion dollars. It was the largest single offloading of ...

Coast Guard highlights push for drones to aid operations

The U.S. coastline is more than 95,000 miles long and the Coast Guard is responsible for patrolling the waters off the coast.

38 tons of narcotics worth $470M seized in historic bust off South Florida coast

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday offloaded a record-setting 38 tons of cocaine and marijuana — valued at around $470 million — ...
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Dominican Navy adds new coast guard vessel

The Dominican Republic Navy has added the Defiant 85-class Coast Guard Cutter ARCTURUS (GC-114) to its fleet, acquired through a U.S. Foreign Military Sale program. The purchase-donation agreement was ...
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Coast Guard Continues Response to Chinese Research Vessel Activity in U.S. Arctic

The Arctic is a growing zone of strategic global competition. The Coast Guard is the only U.S. surface presence in the Arctic ...

Coast Guard makes arrest after stopping a sailboat heading from the Keys to Cuba

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Maple last Wednesday morning stopped a sailboat about 40 nautical miles south of the ...