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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) and USCGC Campbell (WMEC 909), two of the Coast Guard’s fleet of twenty-nine medium-endurance c...

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. Fagan is an outstanding leader with 36 years of Coast Guard operations, policy-making, joint service, a...

Vice Adm. Linda Fagan nominated as U.S. Coast Guard vice commandant By (0) Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan's nomination on Monday to U.S. Coast Guard Vice Commandant would make her the USCG's 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, would make Fagan the Coast Guard's first female four-star admiral, the branch said in a press rele...

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 longest service record in the marine safety field, according to the Coast Guard statement issued Mo...

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 maritime security cutter Bertholf. The ship was in San Diego harbor this week after a 70-day deploym...