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Coast Guard Gets a Pay Raise in Biden's First Budget Request A MH-60T helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard District Five lands on the deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), March 20, 2021. (John D. Bellino/U.S. Navy) 2 Jun 2021 The Coast Guard would receive only a 2% increase under President Joe Biden's proposed fiscal 2022 budget, with less funding for non-mandatory expenses, or discretionary spending, than it received last year from Congress. But a planned 6% increase in the service's critical operations and support budget is a boost service officia...

USNI News White House Taps Vice Adm. Linda Fagan for Coast Guard Vice Commandant April 19, 2021 7:23 PM Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, Pacific Area Commander, drops in on chief’s call with Pacific Area Command Master Chief Heath Jones aboard Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB-10) on Sept. 16, 2019. US Coast Guard Photo The Biden administration has tapped Vice Adm. Linda Fagan to serve as the Coast Guard’s new vice commandant, a promotion that would make her the service’s first woman to receive four stars, the Coast Guard announced today. In a release, the service said that Fagan, who leads Coa...

Overnight Defense: Top US general meets with Taliban | House panel launches probe into cyberattack | Army to issue face masks for soldiers in 2021 Ellen Mitchell © Greg Nash Overnight Defense: Top US general meets with Taliban | House panel launches probe into cyberattack | Army to issue face masks for soldiers in 2021 Happy Thurs day and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen....

Thurs day and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and State Department representatives met with Taliban representatives in Doha “as part of the military channel established in the U.S.-Taliban agreement,” his spokesperson, Cmdr. Sarah Flaherty, said in a statement. “The chairman discussed the need for an immediate reduction of violence and accelerate progress towards a neg...