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After speaking with Admiral Karl L. Schultz, Coast Guard Commandant, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, today announced that Rhode Island will serve as the homeport for two new 270-foot Coast Guard medium-endurance cutters, which will be based out of Naval Station Newport, each with a crew of 100.  These Coast Guard cutters are scheduled to arrive in the fall of next year. The USGC Tahoma (WMEC-908)...

Fagan Nominated as USCG Vice Commandant Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard) Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan has been nominated by the White House to be the next Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.  She would become the first Coast Guard female four-star admiral and the third woman to serve as Vice Commandant. Pending confirmation, Fagan is expected to relieve current Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Charles W. Ray on June 18. “Vice Adm. Fag...

Vice Adm. Linda Fagan nominated as U.S. Coast Guard vice commandant By (0) Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagans nomination on Monday to U.S. Coast Guard Vice Commandant would make her the USCGs first female four-star admiral. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard April 19 (UPI) -- Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan was nominated as the next Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday. The nomination by President Joe Biden, pending approval by the U.S. Senate, ...

By CAITLIN DOORNBOS | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 19, 2021 WASHINGTON – Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan has been nominated by the White House to serve as the next vice commandant of the Coast Guard, which would make her the first female four-star admiral in the service, the Coast Guard announced Monday. A 1985 Coast Guard Academy graduate, Fagan now serves as commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area. She is also the service’s first-ever Gold Ancient Trident, which is the officer with the...

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 ...

March 28, 2021 The cost of the mega containership Ever Given blocking Suez Canal traffic exceeds $9B a day but the cost of bringing these ships into poor and highly populated cities like Newark, New Jersey is much higher. gCaptain (OpEd) When a mega containership like the Ever Given docks in the United States its over 20,000 TEU’s of containers are dumped on our cities and the environmental and health consequences and road damage is enormous. Our poorest children are dying, climate change is ...

The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard released a new tri-Service maritime strategy December 17, entitled Advantage at Sea. The document provides strategic guidance on how the sea services will prevail in day-to-day competition, crisis and conflict,

Share this article The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard have today issued a new maritime strategy providing strategic guidance for their plan for facing adversaries at sea over the next decade. The strategy, called Advantage at Sea, places particular focus on China and Russia due to their “increasing maritime aggressiveness, demonstrated intent to dominate key international waters and clear desire to remake the international order in their favor,” the Services said in a joint statem...

US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard unveil maritime strategy December 17, 2020, by Naida Hakirevic The US Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard released a new Tri-Service Maritime Strategy today, entitled ‘Advantage at Sea’. The document provides strategic guidance on how the sea services will prevail in day-to-day competition, crisis, and conflict over the next decade. It also directs the services to deepen tri-service integration, aggressively ...

The document provides strategic guidance on how the sea services will prevail in day-to-day competition, crisis, and conflict over the next decade. It also directs the services to deepen tri-service integration, aggressively pursue force modernization, and continue robust cooperation with allies and partners. “Our integrated Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard must maintain clear-eyed resolve to compete with, deter, and, if necessary, defeat our adversaries while we accelerate development of ...