Alameda Based Bertholf News Today

SAN DIEGO —  The U.S. Navy’s struggles with COVID-19 are well documented. Early in the pandemic, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt had hundreds of sailors test positive, with one fatality. The outbreak led to the removal of the ship’s commander. More recently hundreds of sailors aboard the destroyer Chafee were placed under quarantine in San Diego hotel rooms. But the pandemic has also strained Coast Guard crews at sea, said Capt. Brian Anderson, the commanding officer of the ...

By ANDREW DYER | The San Diego Union Tribune | Published: March 11, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Navys struggles with COVID-19 are well documented. Early in the pandemic, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt had hundreds of sailors test po...

Adm. Karl Schultz was on hand as the Alameda, Calif.-based USCGC Bertholf unloaded 7,500 pounds of cocaine and marijuana seized by several Coast Guard vessels in the eastern Pacific over the first two months of 2021.