Coast Guard

                                     If you are U.S. Navy - Either Active Duty, Honorable Discharge, Retired or Reserve. If you are Coast Guard or Marine, then you must read on my friend . I am excited to be able to be the one to present you with this information!! I was in the U.S. Navy many years ago and when I stumbled upon this site, and saw everything that it offered, I couldn't wait to join! This site is for people that are or where affiliated with the U.S. Navy in thier lifetime. It is an online organization that can only be appreciated by people that have been or are ... Read Full Story

The U.S. Coast Guard has contracted Lockheed Martin for the delivery of Ocean Sentry turboprop aircraft with the company's Mission System Pallets technologies. Under the $147.5 million contract, U.S. company Lockheed Martin will supply the Coast Guard with three of the HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft integrated with the MSP electronic suites. The MSP technology provides HC-144A aircrews with a data sharing capability through sensors, other aircraft and Coast Guard bases, supporting maritime patrol and surveillance operations. Read more (free subscription required) Read Full Story

The search for 7 members of the Coast Guard and 2 Marines who went down in a collision between a plane and a helicopter off the coast of California last week has now been declared a recovery mission . The Coast Guard announced that, after 60 hours, the chances of survival were negligible. In a forgotten detail of this story, the missing boater whom the Coast Guard was searching for when their plane went down is also still missing. Far and away the most common reaction people have when receiving news of a traumatic death is one of disbelief. I have seen people who ... Read Full Story

Europa NewsWire. SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard, Navy, and Marine Corps are searching for survivors from two military aircraft that collided 15 miles east of San Clemente Island, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.    A Coast Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft, from Air Station Sacramento, was engaged in a search and rescue mission when it collided with an AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter, from the 3 rd Marine Aircraft Wing stationed at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, conducting a training mission.   The Navy reported to the Coast Guard that they observed what appeared to be a mid-air collision.   Coast Guard crews as ... Read Full Story

EUROPA NEWSWIRE. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen. Miami Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous, while on routine patrol in the Caribbean Sea Thursday, interdicted a vessel with four people and 107 bales of marijuana aboard. The marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.6 million, was interdicted after the Venturous deployed its smallboat crew to pursue the vessel. The Coast Guard stopped the vessel using warning shots and then disabling fire directed at the vessel's engines after the people aboard the vessel ignored orders to heave to. The marijuana and the vessel were seized ... Read Full Story