WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Memorial Day is often considered the unofficial start to summer, and one of the most popular activities many will be doing over the next few months is spending ...

In 1941, at the onset of World War II, the Temporary Reserve, or, TR, became a volunteer military service component of the Coast Guard, while an auxiliary was created — and remains — an unpaid ...

Becoming a Coast Guard officer offers a unique blend of military discipline and humanitarian mission -- all while operating on U.S. waters and beyond. Your main options to receive a commission in ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Coast Guard says it has removed a tip sheet that directed employees to hold garage sales and start babysitting to survive the partial government shutdown that has left ...

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 ...

It was partially to prevent exactly this eventuality that the Coast Guard adopted its own identifying racing stripes. The United States Coast Guard shares the story of one heroic ocean rescue in ...

John Saran has supported Coast Guard missions as a civilian volunteer for the Coast Guard Auxiliary for the past six years. He regularly covers stories that involve integration within the Coast Guard ...

Kochi: After rescue operations, Indian Coast Guard has a major task on hand — to contain the oil spill from the containers of MSC Elsa 3.Ashish Mehrotra, Commander of the Indian Coast Guard ...

As the fourth-largest country in the world, the United States naturally has quite a few ocean shores along its coastlines, not to mention numerous smaller bodies of water like rivers. Water is a ...

Approximately 90 percent of boating death occur on boats where the operator had no formal boating safety instruction. The Coast Guard recommends that all boaters take a safety class every five years.