Us coast guard articles
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US Coast Guard Cutter Confidence celebrated for 58 years’ service during heritage recognition ceremony
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Coast Guard held a heritage recognition ceremony, Thursday, in Cape Canaveral to honor the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Confidence (WMEC 619) and recognize its 58 years of service. The ceremony was presided over by Cmdr. Thomas Martin, commanding officer of Confidence, and retired Rear Adm. James Underwood, 15th commanding officer of Confidence, was a guest speaker at the ceremony, which served to celebrate the Confidence’s contributions to the service and Nation in the...
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US Coast Guard Cutter Diligence returns home following Gulf of Mexico fisheries patrol and response to Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence (WMEC 616) returned to their home port in Pensacola, April 26, 2024, after a two-month deployment spent conducting a living marine resources patrol in the Gulf of Mexico, undergoing a maintenance availability at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, and later responding to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Diligence’s crew patrolled within the U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District area of responsibility, based in New Orleans, and...
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The China Coast Guard and Beijing’s Strategic Ambiguity
On December 9 last year, the Philippine government announced that a China Coast Guard (CCG) ship had fired a water cannon at a Philippine vessel in the waters of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, over which there is an ongoing territorial dispute. The next day, it announced that a CCG ship fired a water cannon at a supply vessel carrying supplies for the Philippine navy and a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) patrol vessel escorting it in the waters around the Second Thomas Shoal (Ayungin...