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The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Myers Beach safely pulled a dog on board their vessel, Dec. 5, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Myers Beach via Facebook)

Coast Guard Rescues Florida Dog Spotted Swimming for its Life

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Myers Beach safely pulled the dog on board their vessel.

Coast Guard Cutter John Midgett (WHEC 726), Coast Guard Cutter Hickory (WLB 212), and the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) sit moored in Kodiak as a storm rolls into Womens Bay, Alaska, May 28, 2019. All three cutters conduct various missions throughout Alaska, from domestic fisheries enforcement and conducting search and rescue cases, to maintaining navigational aids for mariners traversing the Bering Sea. (Jacob Marx/Coast Guard)

Coast Guard, Navy Boats Collide in Alaska; 9 Injured

Both vessels were damaged. The incident is under investigation.

US Warship Seizes Suspected Iran Missile Parts Set for Yemen

A Navy warship has seized a "significant cache" of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen.

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence working with a Royal Bahamian Police Force boatcrew rescue 86 Haitian migrants stranded without food or water on the southeastern side of Great Inagua, Bahamas, Nov. 13, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Landry Griffitt)

17 Migrants Rescued by Coast Guard After Trying to Enter US on Thanksgiving

Authorities removed 14 Haitian migrants and three Bahamian migrants.

A collage of photos of Alexander Saldarini, acting quartermaster aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa during World War I, sit on top of a Coast Guard ensign after a Purple Heart Medal presentation ceremony Sept. 26, 2019 held at Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet. The Coast Guard flag was signed by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WMEC-902) presented to John Kendall, grandnephew of Saldarini, at the ceremony. (Jonathan Lally/U.S. Coast Guard)

WWII Veteran Returns Coast Guard Flag to Ship after Decades

Alex Obrizok, 96, decided to return the flag after meeting a women who recently served on the USS Tampa.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WLBB-30) delivers Christmas trees from northern Michigan to Chicago every year as a part of Chicago’s Christmas Ship program. The one-of-a-kind icebreaker and its predecessor, USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83), have delivered more than 25,000 Christmas trees to Chicago families in the past 20 years. (John M. Stone/U.S. Coast Guard)

Coast Guard Carries Michigan Christmas Trees to Chicago to Honor 1912 Shipwreck

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of modern "Christmas Tree Ship."

A New York Waterway ferry chugs along the Hudson River under a blanket of fog and light rain seen from Liberty State Park, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

New York Waterway Modifies Routes After Coast Guard Inspections

New York Waterway is modifying some service after Coast Guard inspectors found 23 of its 32 ferries “operationally unfit.”

Rescuers work near the stern of the vessel Golden Ray as it lays on its side near the Moran tug boat Dorothy Moran, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Jekyll Island, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Removal of Capsized Ship Could Take More Than a Year: Coast Guard

The Golden Ray could be part of the skyline on St. Simons and Jekyll island for the next year and beyond.

A Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier (WPC-1115) crewmember inspects a migrant vessel just off Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico that was adrift and without engines with 13 migrants aboard Nov. 18, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Ricardo Castrodad)

Coast Guard Repatriates 13 Dominican Republic Migrants

The Coast Guard said it called off the search for three men who spotted land and left their boat to attempt to swim to shore.

Coast Guard Seaman Ethan W. Tucker, right, is accused of killing Seaman Ethan Kelch, left, in Alaska. Facebook

Coast Guardsman Charged with Murder Released from Brig amid Change in Charges

Seaman Ethan W. Tucker was arrested August 28 after a Coast Guard investigation into the death of Seaman Ethan Kelch.

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