Coast Guard

September 26, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - Adm. Owen W. Siler, who served as commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1974 to 1978, will be buried with full military honors on Friday at Arlington National Cemetery. He died from heart failure on July 17 in Atlanta.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2007 – The September edition of the Pentagon Channel’s monthly documentary “Recon” will focus on the Coast Guard’s efforts in the Caribbean Sea’s most perilous waterway.

The show, titled “Perilous Passage,” will provide an inside look at the men and women of the Coast Guard who patrol Mona Passage, a treacherous 80-mile strait separating the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Refugees crammed into tiny boats, known as “yolas,” risk their lives to navigate this passage.    » read more »

Aug. 24, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. Coast Guard units from throughout the Great Lakes region are deployed to provide assistance to the state of Ohio with search-and-rescue and assistance for flood victims in the impacted areas.

Coast Guard operations began yesterday in Findlay, Ohio, where Coast Guard units assisted more than a dozen people.

The Coast Guard is responding with two Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART), two 20-foot, flat-bottom fan boats, and helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Detroit. In total, more than 50 Coast Guard members are responding.    » read more »

Retired Sandia aircraft serving as testing ground

August 20, 2007 -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Dozens of aircraft inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard are in Albuquerque this week for a unique weeklong training course hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. Inspectors from the U.S. Air Force and commercial aircraft operators are attending the training as well.    » read more »

Aug. 14, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the potential loss of paper copy internal audit reports containing personal information for some of our current and former members during an office move at our headquarters earlier this year. The evidence suggests that the reports were discarded or destroyed in conjunction with the office move.    » read more »

August 08, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - In a consolidated contractual action, the Coast Guard today awarded Integrated Coast Guard Systems $337 million for construction of the third national security cutter, along with $255 million for continuation of construction for the first two national security cutters. The combined award is the result of a successful negotiation between the government and industry, enabling these crucial new cutter projects to move forward.    » read more »

August 4, 2007 -- Washington- The U.S. Coast Guard announced during a ceremony today in Grand Haven, Mich., for its 217th birthday that 1,109,310 lives have been saved since its establishment in 1790.

Since 1924, the residents of Grand Haven, Spring Lake and Ferrysburg, Mich., have recognized the Coast Guard, the smallest of the armed forces, with an annual celebration. The festivities include Coast Guard cutter tours, a children's parade, a downtown carnival, nightly entertainment, a parade, a family picnic, and fireworks.    » read more »

Includes Boxer Provision on Suisun Bay; Legislation requires an environmentally sound plan for storing and disposing of "mothballed" World War II vessels

August 2, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee today passed the Coast Guard Reauthorization Bill, including language by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) that addresses her concerns about “mothballed” World War II vessels rotting in the Suisun Bay.    » read more »

August 3, 2007 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that an agreement has been reached to house the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center in a former naval building at the Fort Trumbull municipal development project in New London.

The U.S. General Services Administration has signed a lease with Corcoran Jennison LLC to renovate the former Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) building by October 2008. The project will offer the Coast Guard more than 46,000 square feet of rental space at 100 Chelsea Street, an area known as Parcel 3A.    » read more »

July 26, 2007 -- DNREC’s Division of Fish and Wildlife deployed two steel-hulled vessels July 25 on Delaware’s Red Bird Reef, located 16 miles east of the Indian River Inlet. The deployment helps improve Delaware’s artificial reef by enhancing fisheries habitat, increasing marine biodiversity and productivity, and providing fishing and diving opportunities for decades to come.    » read more »

18 July 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard today announced the death of Adm. Owen W. Siler, 85, Coast Guard commandant from 1974 to 1978, who succumbed to heart failure last night.

"This is a sad day for the Coast Guard," said Adm. Thad Allen, commandant of the Coast Guard. "The Coast Guard lost a close member of our family and America has lost a great leader. Adm. Siler's relentless service to his Nation, from World War II to the war on drugs, will never be forgotten.    » read more »

July 17, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard will stand-up the Deployable Operations Group during an establishment ceremony 7 p.m. Friday at Fort Lesley J. McNair.

The Deployable Operations Group aligns all Coast Guard deployable, specialized forces under a single, unified command headed by a Rear Adm. Thomas F. Atkin. The command will provide organized, equipped, and trained forces to Coast Guard and interagency operational and tactical commanders.    » read more »

July 13, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard marked a major milestone today with a new consolidated acquisition directorate. The directorate handling major systems and future equipment acquisitions, stood up today to become the second largest staff element at Coast Guard headquarters.    » read more »

June 27, 2007 -- This week, the Army and Navy announced an increase, while the Marine Corps and Air Force had a decrease. The Coast Guard number remained the same.

The net collective result is 1,254 more reservists mobilized than last week.
At any given time, services may mobilize some units and individuals while demobilizing others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or decrease.    » read more »

Statement By Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, Coast Guard Director Of Governmental And Public Affairs

June 27, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – The article “Justice Capsized,” in Sunday’s Baltimore Sun, and Tuesday’s editorial “A listing court” in the same newspaper, emphasize statistics that may leave readers with an erroneous impression that I would like to correct. Pending litigation prevents me from addressing other allegations in the article and editorial.    » read more »