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A boatcrew from Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral, Florida, enforces a safety and security zone during a rocket launch off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla., June 24, 2016. (Anthony L. Soto/Coast Guard)

US Coast Guard Looking for Missing Boaters off Florida Coast

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for two missing boaters who left from a ramp at Port Canaveral, Florida on Friday.

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star breaks ice in McMurdo Sound near Antarctica on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Nick Ameen)

Meet the Polar Star, the Coast Guard’s Vital But Neglected Icebreaker. It's Falling Apart

While Russia will soon have more than 50 icebreakers, the fire-engine-red ship lumbers on as a Cold War relic.

Approximately 1,300 pounds of marijuana seized by Coast Guard Station Los Angeles-Long Beach crew members near Catalina Island is shown, Aug. 13, 2019. The bales were transferred to Customs and Border Protection, who confirmed the bales consisted of marijuana weighing approximately 1,300 pounds with an estimated value of $1 million. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Coast Guard Finds 43 Bales of Pot Floating Off California

The marijuana was delivered to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Haitian migrants sit on the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter William Trump (WPC-1111) after being interdicted at sea Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 approximately 69 miles north of Isla De Tortue, Haiti. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Coast Guard Intercepts 146 Haitians at Sea

The Coast Guard said its William Trump cutter intercepted the boat with 120 men, 22 women and four children aboard on Sunday.

Coast Guard Cutter Marcus Hanna, a 175-foot buoy tender homeported in South Portland, Maine and Coast Guard Cutter Shrike, an 87-foot patrol boat based in Sandy Hook, New Jersey transit in Lower New York Bay during a mass casualty drill conducted Sept. 21, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Hunter Medley)

South Portland Coast Guard Officer Relieved of His Command

Chief Warrant Officer J.L. Horne was permanently relieved as the commanding officer of the cutter Marcus Hanna.

Coast Guard Ramps Up in Hawaii with 2 New Ships

A dual commissioning of the two new 418-foot flagship national security cutters is scheduled for Aug. 24.

Coast Guard recruit company Juliet-190 become the first company to try the training center's new stationary bikes, Sept. 10, 2014. The bikes will replace the aging models and provide a safer and more intense workout for recruits going through basic training. (John Edwards/U.S. Coast Guard)

Coast Guard Ditches Body Weight Standards for Measurement in New Pilot Program

Architectural rendering of the first-ever National Coast Guard Museum, planned to begin construction in New London, Connecticut, in 2020. Courtesy of Payette

Construction of Coast Guard Museum to Start in Early 2020

The final design features an 80,000-square-foot, five-story, interactive museum.

USS Serpens is shown moored pier-side in this undated photo. Navy photo

Is the Navy Trying to Cover Up a WWII Explosion That Killed 250?

Packed with 600 tons of ammo and explosives, the USS Serpens died in a flash beneath a full moon on Jan. 29, 1945.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Keith Bryan, a machinery technician in the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star's main propulsion division, explains simulation procedures before engineering casualty exercises while underway in the Ross Sea, near Antarctica, Feb. 4, 2016. (U.S. Coast Guard/Petty Officer 2nd Class Grant DeVuyst)

The Coast Guard Needs Mixed-Gender Berthing

"A shift to unisex berthing will further advance the Coast Guard's commitment to supporting female careers."

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Head of Army Installation Management Command Relieved

The U.S. Army announced that the general in charge of all of the service's installations has been relieved of command.

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U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Regiment and Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) instructors enter JLTV's during a JLTV field training exercise, Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, July 29, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Matthew Kirk)

Marine Corps to Increase JLTV Buy to 15,000 to Replace its Humvee Fleet

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