Coast Guard Gunner's Mate Frank DeVita crawled over the bodies of the dead who lay in the blood and puke covering the deck of the Higgins boat on Omaha Beach to save the landing craft during the ...

“My grandmother had saved all my father’s report cards, sports clippings, photos and letters ... Marines and Coast Guard with a space for a note pad, pens, even a cellphone.

After his second season in Chicago, he walked away to join the U.S. Navy. LoPresti served as a gunner’s mate on the SS Roger ... to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard. Brimsek played for the Coast ...

The Coast Guard’s new commercial icebreaker is en route to the West Coast ahead of its August commissioning in Alaska, marking a milestone in the effort to rebuild U.S. defenses in the Arctic ...

This was not a drill. Members of US Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City nixed a Fleet Week search and rescue demonstration in Manhattan on Memorial Day for the real thing — more than 100 miles ...

As it's the police's job to fight crime on land, it's the U.S. Coast Guard's job to fight crime in the water. The Coast Guard's primary duty is to monitor for illegal activity within the ...

MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (WGN) — The U.S. Coast Guard issued a warning Tuesday after an armed phosphorus pyrotechnic washed up on Montrose Beach a day prior. According to the Coast Guard, three ...

Efforts to clean up an oil spill that leaked 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into Baltimore’s harbor Wednesday have recovered most of the spilled oil, the Coast Guard said. The crew working to ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., raised questions about U.S. Coast Guard staffing after a Mexican naval ship crashed into New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge on May 17, killing two and injuring dozens.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two occupants from a plane that crashed into the Long Island Sound southeast of the Thimble Islands near Branford. The “two people were in stable condition and were ...

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan's coast guard held drills with the military on Sunday to better practice joint operations in the face of what the government in Taipei says is a growing "grey ...