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1939 California tropical storm

Out at sea, the Coast Guard and Navy conducted rescue operations, saving dozens of people.

2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident

The 2011 Gyeongryeolbi island fishing incident occurred on March 2, 2011 Taean County at 3 pm at 64 miles southwest off Gyeongryeolbi island between People’s Republic of China fishing boats and the South Korea Coast guard.

AERCO International

AERCO's products can be found in local, state, and federal government buildings, including every branch of the U.S. military such as the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard, Reserves and Veteran's facilities.

Ballast water regulation in the United States

The 110th Congress considered ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard (S.

Color guard

Typically these include a unit flag and a departmental flag (Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard).

Columbia River Maritime Museum

Visitors may experience what it is like to pilot a tugboat, participate in a Coast Guard rescue on the Columbia River Bar, and live in Astoria during the height of salmon fishing.

Command Consulting Group

D. Brian Peterman- Atlantic Area U.S. Coast Guard Commander, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard District Seven, Principle Federal Official (PFO) for Hurricane Ophelia, Director in the Defense Policy and Arms Control staff on the White House National Security Council during the Clinton Administration, Special Assistant to the President for Border and Transportation Security at the Homeland Security Council under George W. Bush

Dana, Indiana

Although miles from any major body of water, Dana was home to a Coast Guard LORAN navigation transmitter station until it was closed in 2010.

Differential GPS

The United States Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Geodetic Survey appointed the Coast Guard as the maintaining agency for the U.S. Nationwide DGPS network (NDGPS).

Gogebic Community College

Steven E. Day, Coast Guard Rear Admiral (Lower Half) currently serving as Deputy Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, Coast Guard Atlantic Area.

Great Duck Island, Maine

The island was inhabited year-round from sometime after 1837 when William Gilley purchased the island, until 1986 when the Coast Guard left and the lighthouse was automated.

Haiku Valley

The valley was the site of a United States Navy radio transmitting station (later taken over by the Coast Guard as an OMEGA Navigation System station) and is part of the route of Hawaii's Interstate H-3.

Loren Graham

Loren Graham and his wife Patricia, a prominent historian of education and a former dean at Harvard University, many years ago purchased a lighthouse on a remote island in Lake Superior and spend their summers there writing, studying nature, and serving as Coast Guard auxiliarists who have participated in many rescue operations of stranded and wrecked mariners.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Navy is also transferring property at the shipyard to other government agencies such as Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, a Forest Service office building, an Army Reserve Center, a Coast Guard communications facility, and a Department of Education school.

Naval Station Sangley Point

The Coast Guard Air Station and the Coast Guard Ship Nettle played a vital role in search-and-rescue operations and in the maintenance of remote long-range aid-to navigation (LORAN) stations located throughout the Philippines.

Onionhead

' studio in Burbank, California; location shooting for the film took place at the Coast Guard station in Alameda, California and on the USS Heather in Long Beach, California.

Portland Rose Festival

During Fleet Week, ships from United States Navy, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and the Royal Canadian Navy dock along the seawall of Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

Sabre

In the late 20th and early 21st century, swords with sabre blades are worn by most national Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard officers.

Winter Island

The main attractions of the park are the historic Fort Pickering, the Fort Pickering Lighthouse, Salem Harbor, a boat launching ramp, and the former Coast Guard seaplane hangar and barracks.


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2009 California mid-air collision

At 19:10 local time on 29 October 2009 (02:10 on 30 October UTC), a Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft of the United States Coast Guard was involved in a mid-air collision with a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter of the United States Marine Corps.

AAFMAA

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), United States Military Academy (USMA), United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) and United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen and cadets

Admiral Brown

Erroll M. Brown, a retired Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard, and the first African-American promoted to flag rank

AMPL-class interceptor boat

The vessels have been based at various Indian coast guard station such as Mandapam, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Okha, Chennai, Kochi and Goa, and one boat was leased to Mauritius in 2001.

CGIS

Coast Guard Investigative Service, a division of the United States Coast Guard that investigates crimes where the Coast Guard has an interest

Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen

Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen also provides support for U.S. Coast Guard vessels and aircraft, and other U.S. Department of Homeland Security agencies such as the U.S. Border Patrol Ramey Sector and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands against drug traffic and illegal entry into United States Territory.

Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City

Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City is a United States Coast Guard Air Station co-located at Elizabeth City Regional Airport in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, along the Pasquotank River near the opening of the Albemarle Sound.

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard, located in Sacramento County, California.

Coast Guard Honor Guard Badge

The Coast Guard Honor Guard Badge is a qualification badge of the United States Coast Guard which recognizes those personnel who are/have been permanently assigned to the Ceremonial Honor Guard Unit of a U.S. Coast Guard command located at TISCOM, Alexandria, Virginia.

Coast Guard Station Provincetown

United States Coast Guard Station Provincetown is a United States Coast Guard station located in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Commandant of the Coast Guard

The title of Commandant dates to a 1923 act that distributed the commissioned line and engineer officers of the Coast Guard in grades.

Cutter Boat – Over the Horizon

It is designed to pursue and interdict fast, non-compliant vessels and is carried aboard the Coast Guard's Maritime Security Cutters, Hamilton class High Endurance Cutters, and Famous and Reliance class Medium Endurance Cutters.

Dorothy C. Stratton

She is the namesake of the Coast Guard's third National Security Cutter, the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752).

In 2008, the Coast Guard named its third National Security Cutter the USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752) in her honor.

Frank Welch

Frank A. Welch (born 1959), Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard

FV Pelican

The hull, foundering beneath the waves, was first secured near Montauk Point by legendary Montauk fisherman Capt. Frank Mundus on his vessel Cricket II and Carl Forsberg, founder of the Viking Fleet, the largest fishing fleet in Montauk, on his Viking V,and was later transferred to the Coast Guard picketboat, which towed it into Lake Montauk.

Gary Blore

From 1977 until 1982, he served as a helicopter aircraft commander at Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn, NY, and participated in the Mariel (Cuba) to Key West Cuban Exodus of 1980.

General Aviation PJ

Five examples were operated by the US Coast Guard during the 1930s, named Antares, Altair, Acrux, Acamar, and Arcturus (hull numbers FLB-51 through FLB-55).

Gulfstream III

C-20B - United States Air Force and United States Coast Guard variant with upgraded electronics, used for Operational Support Airlift (OSA) and Special Assignment Airlift Missions (SAAM); the single Coast Guard C-20B was used by the Commandant of the Coast Guard and other senior USCG officials as well as the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Hispanics in the United States Coast Guard

Lieutenant Junior Grade Clarence Samuels, born on Bohio, Panama, enlisted in the Coast Guard on July 16, 1920 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States on July 21, 1923.

ICGS Rajdhwaj

ICGS Rajdhwaj (ICGS refers to Indian Coast Guard Ship) is a Rajshree-class inshore patrol vessel (IPV), and the last in the series of eight IPVs designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders Engineers, Kolkata for the Indian Coast Guard.

J. William Kime

In the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, he pioneered how the Coast Guard prevents and responds to oil and hazardous chemical spills, significantly minimizing environmental damage.

James Alderman

On the afternoon of August 7, 1927, Alderman and his associate Robert Weech were intercepted by a Coast Guard cutter in the waters between Florida and Bimini.

James F. Sloan

Before assuming the role of head of Coast Guard Intelligence, James Sloan was the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from April 12, 1999.

John B. Hayes

Under Hayes' leadership, the Coast Guard accomplished a number of firsts for women in the military, including the assignment of Lieutenant (junior grade) Beverly Kelley as the first female commanding officer of a U.S. military vessel, and Lieutenant Kay Hartzell as the first female to command an isolated U.S. military unit.

Kaman Aircraft

; July, 1949 : K-225 - An improved version of the K-125; the U.S. Navy bought two and the Coast Guard one for $25,000 each.

Maritime law enforcement agencies in China

The China Coast Guard was formerly the maritime branch of the Public Security Border Troops, a paramilitary police force under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

Michael Leavitt

Michael P. Leavitt (born 1960), Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard

Morris Island Light

Erosion of land caused the Coast Guard to begin construction of a new Charleston Light in 1960.

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133

NMCB 133 also had presence in São Tomé, working in cooperation with Underwater Construction Team ONE (UCT 1) to rebuild the only boat launch available to the country’s Coast Guard.

NoCGV Svalbard

She was christened 15 December in Tomrefjord with Minister of Defence Kristin Krohn Devold as godmother, and delivered to the Coast Guard on 18 January 2002.

Pakistan Naval Academy

In 1990, Prime minister Benazir Bhutto signed an executive decree providing for the Bachelor of Science Degree for the Naval, Military, and Coast Guard Academies.

Peter Boynton

Retired United States Coast Guard as well as former Federal Security Director for the Transportation Security Administration at Bradley International Airport, Boynton has been described by former Governor M. Jodi Rell as one of the leaders of America's domestic security effort.

Priority Material Office

PMO is dedicated to perform assigned material control and supply support responsibilities for the TRIDENT submarine operating forces assigned to Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR), and act as the focal point for logistics support of deployable Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command units.

Rantum

In Rantum there is an emitter of the LORAN {formerly operated by the US COAST GUARD} radio navigation system, using a 193 metre tall lattice tower mast radiator as an antenna.

Regulation of ship pollution in the United States

The 110th Congress (2007-2009) had been considering ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard.

Rescue swimmer

The United States Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technician (AST)/rescue swimmer school in Elizabeth City, North Carolina is 18 weeks long, along with four required weeks at the Coast Guard's Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in Petaluma, California, where ASTs learn to be qualified EMTs.

Ringel

Faye Ringel, former American professor of Humanities at the United States Coast Guard Academy and an author

Semper Gumby

It is a play on the official motto Semper Fidelis, usually abbreviated Semper Fi, which means "Always Faithful", and that of the US Coast Guard, Semper Paratus, meaning "Always Ready." Semper Gumby, referring to the cartoon character Gumby, means "Always Flexible."

Stephen W. Rochon

A New Orleans native, Admiral Rochon served as the Coast Guard's Director of Personnel Management in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricanes, providing support for Coast Guard personnel and their families, and ensuring they had housing and new job assignments.

The Boatniks

Young and awkward, Coast Guard Ensign Thomas Garland (Morse) suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero, which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild (Powers), a young woman who runs a sailing school.

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCG Aux) is the uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard ("USCG").

United States Coast Guard Band

In March 1925, the Coast Guard Band was organized with the assistance of Lt. Charles Benter, leader of the U.S. Navy Band, Dr. Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and "American March King" John Philip Sousa, former director of the U.S. Marine Band.

United States Coast Guard Yard

After completing an extensive, four-year repair project on the Coast Guard Cutter Barque Eagle in the 1980s, the cutter returned to the yard in 1995 and 1998 for repair availabilities.

United States Naval Aviator

Coast Guard Officers receive their commissions either from the United States Coast Guard Academy or Coast Guard Officer Candidate School, both located in New London, Connecticut; or via the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY.

Wet feet, dry feet policy

On January 5, 2006, the Coast Guard found 15 Cubans, including four women and two children, who had climbed onto a piling on the old Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys.

What Does the Bee Do?

Nucky looks to Rothstein for a port to receive alcohol, since the Coast Guard is blockading Atlantic City.

Zukunft

Paul F. Zukunft (born 1955), rear admiral in the United States Coast Guard