Boarding officers in an interceptor boat from the U.S.
Boarding officers in an interceptor boat from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton seize cocaine from suspected smugglers during the boarding of a suspected smuggling vessel in international waters in the drug ... More
Capt. Brian Novak reads his orders and delivers brief
Capt. Brian Novak reads his orders and delivers brief remarks to nine crew members during a modified change-of-command ceremony held aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) while moored at Base Alameda, ... More
Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard,
Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks during a commissioning ceremony at Base Honolulu, Aug. 24, 2019. The event was for the Honolulu homeported Coast Guard Cutters Kimball (WMSL 756) and... More
Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard; Vice
Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard; Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, Pacific Area, and Defense Force West commander; Jazania O’Neal, sponsor of the Coast Guard Cutter Midgett; and Capt. Alan McCabe, command... More
The crew aboard the Coast Guard cutter James pulls
The crew aboard the Coast Guard cutter James pulls into port at Fells Point in Baltimore Aug. 18, 2015. James is the Coast Guard’s newest National Security Cutter commissioned in Boston Aug. 8, 2015. (Coast Gua... More
An Indonesian Bakamla (coast guard) boarding team member
An Indonesian Bakamla (coast guard) boarding team member climbs up a Jacob’s Ladder hanging from the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) during a boarding training exercise while transiting in the Singapore ... More
CGC Bertholf Departing Dutch Harbor
DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf departs Dutch Harbor May 9, 2011, in support of a fisheries and law enforcement patrol in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. This is the first time a Coas... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Lerone Brown, a culinary specialist
Petty Officer 3rd Class Lerone Brown, a culinary specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752), renders a salute to a passing Indonesian Bakamla (coast guard) vessel while arriving in the Batu Am... More
The Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) and the Coast
The Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) and the Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) are moored at Base Honolulu prior to a dual commissioning ceremony, August 23, 2019. The ceremony will be the first time i... More
A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team member
A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team member inspects the bridge of a self-propelled semi-submersible interdicted in international waters off the coast of Central America, July 19, 2015. The Stratton’s cr... More
Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard,
Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, congratulates Capt. Alan McCabe, the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757), during a commissioning ceremony at Coast Guard Base Ho... More
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, a National Security Cutter,
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, a National Security Cutter, makes the transit to its new homeport in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 24, 2014. The Hamiliton is the first NSC to be stationed on the East Coast since the new ... More
The Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) was christened
The Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) was christened during a ceremony in Pascagoula, Miss., Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Midgett is named in honor of 10 members of the Midgett family who earned seven gold and t... More
Seven members of an Indonesian navy law enforcement
Seven members of an Indonesian navy law enforcement team stand on the flight deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) preparing for a training exercise aboard the Stratton in the Java Sea, Aug. 6, 201... More
An Indian coast guard search and rescue expert presents
An Indian coast guard search and rescue expert presents Indian coast guard search and rescue abilities and techniques during an expertise exchange Aug. 24, 2019, at the Indian coast guard Region East Headquarte... More
Coast Guardsmen aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton
Coast Guardsmen aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton from Alameda, Calif., conduct in-flight refueling with a Coast Guard helicopter in the Arctic Ocean during Operation Arctic Shield 2014. (Coast Guard photo... More
Capt. Bob Little, commanding officer Coast Guard Cutter
Capt. Bob Little, commanding officer Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752), explains the contributions of the cutter’s namesake Capt. Dorothy Stratton during a cutter tour presented to Capt. Nyoto Saptono, com... More
The Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) transits the
The Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) transits the San Francisco Bay en route to the cutter's homeport of Alameda, California, Sept. 7, 2020. Munro's crew completed a three-month multi-mission patrol, includi... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Davis, a boatswain's
Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Davis, a boatswain's mate aboar the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton, stands security during a cocaine and heroin offload in San Diego, Calif., Sept. 20, 2017. The Coast Guard and i... More
U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, California's 50th congressional
U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, California's 50th congressional district representative, Vice Adm. Charles Ray, commander of Coast Guard Pacific Area, Cmdr. Jo-Ann Burdian, the Coast Guard congressional liaison off... More
Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL
Crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756), including (from left) Petty Officer Tyler Biggs, Seaman Drian Sanchez, Petty Officer Brendan Tomayko, and Petty Officer Dawson Reiman, discuss plans t... More
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756)
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) tranists past Dimond Head on Oahu, Hawaii, Aug. 16, 2019. The Kimball is one of the Coast Guard's new national security cutters and can preform multiple mis... More
Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757), foreground,,
Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757), foreground,, meets Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) off Diamond Head Aug. 16, 2019. Kimball, the seventh National Security Cutter built for the Coast Guard, is schedu... More
Coast Guard members perform color guard detail during
Coast Guard members perform color guard detail during the Coast Guard Cutter Midgett's (WMSL 757) christening ceremony in Pascagoula, Miss., Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Midgett is named in honor of 10 members of th... More
A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team seizes
A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team seizes cocaine bales from a self-propelled semi-submersible interdicted in international waters off the coast of Central America, July 19, 2015. The Coast Guard recov... More
A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team opens the
A Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team opens the bridge of a self-propelled semi-submersible interdicted in international waters off the coast of Central America, July 19, 2015. The Stratton’s crew recover... More
Bales of contraband seized from a suspected drug smuggling
Bales of contraband seized from a suspected drug smuggling vessel sit on the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) while the cutter and crew are deployed to the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Nov. 27, 2019... More
Chief Petty Officer Omar Rivera, an electrician's mate
Chief Petty Officer Omar Rivera, an electrician's mate aboard Coast Guard Cutter Munro embraces his loved ones after a 98-day counter-narcotics patrol to the Eastern Pacific Ocean on July 15, 2019 in Alameda, C... More
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750)
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) observes the approach to Clipperton Island during their counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Set. 4, 2020. Bertholf’s crew spent more than 50 d... More
An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter takes a load off the flight
An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter takes a load off the flight deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) as Ensigns Olivia Calabro and Alexander Kearney, landing signal officers give hand signals to the aircr... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven O. Turano arranges patriotic
Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven O. Turano arranges patriotic bunting as part of “full dress ship” for the Cutter Hamilton's upcoming commissioning ceremony Dec. 4, 2014. As the fourth cutter out of planned eight... More
Friends and family members await the arrival of the
Friends and family members await the arrival of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) as the cutter prepares to moor at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., Dec. 23, 2019. The Bertholf returned home from... More
A tug boat crew guides Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf
A tug boat crew guides Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf to its berth at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., Oct. 24, 2017. Tug boat crews enhance the cutter's maneuverability in tight spaces like the Oakland Estu... More
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, Pacific Area commander,
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, Pacific Area commander, and Rear Adm. Peter Gauiter, the 11th Coast Guard District commander, stand alongside Capt. Brian Anderson, the commanding officer of the Coast Guard C... More
Families reunited aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton
Families reunited aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton after the cutter returned home following a 60-day deployment, April 5, 2018. Stratton crewmembers sailed nearly 15,000 nautical miles during the multi-mi... More
A crewmember aboard CGC Kimball (WMSL 756) blows a
A crewmember aboard CGC Kimball (WMSL 756) blows a kiss to a loved one waiting ashore as the ship docks for the first time in its new homeport of Honolulu Dec. 22, 2018. Kimball is the first National Security C... More
As a part of Fleet Week New York, crew members from
As a part of Fleet Week New York, crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton and guests honored Coast Guard founder, Alexander Hamilton, with a memorial wreath-laying ceremony at his grave at Trinity Chu... More
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crew moors the
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crew moors the cutter in Hong Kong during the cutter’s Western Pacific deployment under the tactical control of Commander, 7th Fleet, April 15, 2019. The U.S. Coast Guard’s ... More
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding teams
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding teams interdict a low-profile go-fast vessel while patrolling international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, seizing more than 3,100 pounds of suspected cocai... More
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton offloads
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton offloads 34 metric tons of cocaine in San Diego on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. The drugs were seized in 23 separate interdictions by Coast Guard cutters and Coast Guard la... More
Casings lay on the flight deck of the Coast Guard Cutter
Casings lay on the flight deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) following a live-fire range exercise while the cutter and crew patrolled the East China Sea, April 1, 2019. The Coast Guard Cutter Be... More
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding teams
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding teams interdict a low-profile go-fast vessel while patrolling international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, seizing more than 3,100 pounds of suspected cocai... More
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Shipley
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Shipley reenlists for an additional four years of service while aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf during the cutter’s counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Oc... More
BERTHOLF RETURNS FROM SUCCESSFUL BUILDER'S TRIALS
Pascagoula, Miss. (Feb. 15, 2008) - The first National Security Cutter, Bertholf (WMSL 750), returned Monday after four days of builder's trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship's return to Northrop Grumman Ship... More
Bertholf AK Patrol Underway - ATLANTIC
BERING SEA - The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, a 418-foot national security cutter, is on patrol in the Bering Sea as part of the Seventeenth District's law enforcement and fisheries efforts May 18, 2011. This ... More
San Francisco Fleet Week, San Francisco, California
SAN FRANCISCO - The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, a 418-foot National Security cutter homeported in Alameda, Calif., transits under the Golden Gate Bridge sailing in formation for the Fleet Week Parade of Ships,... More
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) prepare the flight deck for the arrival of an Indonesian navy helicopter that will land aboard the cutter while it is underway in the Java Sea, Aug.... More
The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) is moored
The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) is moored and dressed at Base Honolulu next to the Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry (WPC 1124) prior to a dual commissioning ceremony for the Kimball and the Coast Guard... More
Lt. Christine Roselli, left, Lt. Cmdr. Donald Stiker,
Lt. Christine Roselli, left, Lt. Cmdr. Donald Stiker, and Senior Chief Petty Officer Chad Barrett, command senior chief aboard Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756), render hand salutes as the crew “brings the ... More
Coast Guard Petty Officers 2nd Class Jason McCormack
Coast Guard Petty Officers 2nd Class Jason McCormack and Austin Essegian, both electronics technicians assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755), solder a terminal connector on an antenna line running... More
Crew members from the pre-commissioned Coast Guard
Crew members from the pre-commissioned Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) discovered a scuttling valve inside a low-profile go-fast vessel interdicted by the crew July 31 in international waters of the Easte... More
CGC Bertholf Underway Bering Sea Patrol-BM2 Bleyer
BERING SEA - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class William Bleyer, a boatswain's mate, charts the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf's position during a Bering Sea patrol May 11, 2011. As the quartermaster of the watch,... More
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton prepares to
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton prepares to tie up Friday June 2, 2017, at its homeport in Charleston, South Carolina. The Hamilton crew returned from a three-month interagency patrol in the Eastern Pac... More
Seaman Drian Sanchez tends a line attached to the ship’s
Seaman Drian Sanchez tends a line attached to the ship’s long-range interceptor boat while crewmembers transfer the boat from its cradle to the ship’s stern notch, ready for launching, aboard Coast Guard Cutter... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class John Minton, a boatswain’s
Petty Officer 2nd Class John Minton, a boatswain’s mate, directs crane operations on the fantail of Coast Guard Cutter Kimball Aug, 18, 2019 while Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Brassard, also a boatswain’s ma... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Rodriguez, an operations
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Rodriguez, an operations specialist aboard Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757), helps handle lines from sister ship and piermate Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) as Kimb... More
Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) powers through
Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) powers through Pacific swells off Diamond Head enroute to meeting up with Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756), whose mast is just visible at right, Aug. 16, 2019. Kimball... More
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) crew members
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) crew members palletize bales of contraband on the cutter’s flight deck following an at-sea interdiction of a low-profile go-fast vessel during Bertholf's patrol of the Eas... More
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) practice in-flight refueling with an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter Aug. 28, 2019, while the Stratton transits the Bay of Bengal. The operation was part o... More
Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL
Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Kimball (WMSL 756) line the rails to “bring the ship to life” during a commissioning ceremony at Coast Guard Base Honolulu, Aug. 24, 2019. Kimball’s sister ship, the Coas... More
Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crewmembers secure cocaine
Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crewmembers secure cocaine bales from a self-propelled semi-submersible interdicted in international waters off the coast of Central America, July 19, 2015. The Coast Guard recovered... More
The Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crew is shown with
The Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crew is shown with cocaine bales seized from a self-propelled semi-submersible interdicted in international waters off the coast of Central America, July 19, 2015. The Coast Guar... More
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Shipley
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Shipley reenlists for an additional four years of service while aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf during the cutter’s counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Oc... More
The Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) transits
The Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) transits the San Francisco Bay blanketed in fog and smoke from numerous wildfires burning across the San Francisco Bay Area, Aug. 22, 2020. Waesche’s crew departed thei... More
A Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding team
A Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding team member stands atop an interdicted low-profile vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Feb. 1, 2021. Cartels design low-profile vessels specifically to evade l... More
Crew members aboard a 45-foot Response Boat – Medium
Crew members aboard a 45-foot Response Boat – Medium from Coast Guard Station Curtis Bay, Maryland, provide support as the Coast Guard cutter James pulls into port at Fells Point in Baltimore Aug. 18, 2015. Jam... More
U.S. Coast Guard Silent Drill Team members deliver
U.S. Coast Guard Silent Drill Team members deliver the memorial wreath at a wreath-laying ceremony to honor Coast Guard founder, Alexander Hamilton, at Trinity Church in New York City, May 26, 2017. As a part o... More
National Security Cutter 1
Pascagoula, Miss. (July 31, 2007) -- Nameplate and space number of the National Security Cutter's Ship's Office, which 85 percent complete. The NSC is the flagship of the fleet, capable of meeting all maritime ... More
Family and friends gathered on Coast Guard Island in
Family and friends gathered on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., to welcome their loved ones home who were deployed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton as the cutter and crew return home following a 60-... More
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton crewmembers refuel an MH-60
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton crewmembers refuel an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Clearwater during a search and rescue case. Crews medically evacuated an injured cargo ship crewmember. (U.S. Coast G... More
Boarding officers in an interceptor boat from the U.S.
Boarding officers in an interceptor boat from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton take suspected smugglers into custody during the boarding of a suspected smuggling vessel in international waters in the drug t... More
A Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crewmember tends the
A Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf crewmember tends the ship's mooring lines as the cutter returns to homeport in Alameda, Calif., Oct. 24, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Wilson.
A marching band from the Batam, Indonesia National
A marching band from the Batam, Indonesia National Sailing School welcomes the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) to Batam, Aug. 9, 2019. Batam is the homeport of the Indonesian Bakamla’s (coast... More
Petty Officer 1st Class Waylon Haynie, a boatswains
Petty Officer 1st Class Waylon Haynie, a boatswains mate assigned to the Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team West, boxes with a heavy bag while deployed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750)... More
Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL
Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) are greeted aboard the Indian coast guard ship Shaurya (16) Aug. 24, 2019, prior to being given a tour of the vessel while the two coast guard ships wer... More
A Coast Guard Cutter Sherman crewmember lowers the
A Coast Guard Cutter Sherman crewmember lowers the national ensign during a ceremony honoring Sherman’s final colors, held the evening before the Sherman was decommissioned in Honolulu, Mar. 28, 2018. Launched ... More
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, a National Security Cutter,
Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, a National Security Cutter, makes the transit to its new homeport in Charleston, S.C., Nov. 24, 2014. The Hamiliton is the first NSC to be stationed on the East Coast since the new ... More
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton stands
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton stands by to offload 34 metric tons of cocaine in San Diego on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. The drugs were seized in 23 separate interdictions by Coast Guard cutters and Co... More
Linda Kapral, wife of retired Coast Guard Commandant
Linda Kapral, wife of retired Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp, speaks during a ceremony to commission Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, the first National Security Cutter to be stationed on the East Coast, Dec.... More
Two dogs dressed for the holidays await the arrival
Two dogs dressed for the holidays await the arrival of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) as the cutter prepares to moor at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., Dec. 23, 2019. The Bertholf returned ho... More
Petty Officer 1st Class Blaize Potts, an aviation
Petty Officer 1st Class Blaize Potts, an aviation maintenance technician, from Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay speaks with the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf’s landing signaling officer on the cutter’s flight... More
National Security Cutter 1
Pascagoula, Miss. (July 31, 2007) -- Nameplate of the Chief Petty Officer stateroom aboard the National Security Cutter which is 85 percent complete. Average size of CPO staterooms are at 140 square feet. The N... More
Michelle Obama at Stratton Commissioning
ALAMEDA, Calif. -?? First Lady Michelle Obama covers her heart and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Robert J. Papp renders a salute during the National Anthem at the commissioning ceremony of the Cutter Stratton on ... More
US COAST GUARD Machinery checks
PACIFIC OCEAN - Petty Officer 3rd Class Rebecca Campbell, a machinery technician, takes a reading from a screen within one of the machinery spaces aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, April 9, 2012. While un... More
The Coast Guard commissioning party salutes the American
The Coast Guard commissioning party salutes the American flag during a ceremony to commission Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, the first National Security Cutter to be stationed on the East Coast, Dec. 6, 2014. Ham... More
A tugboat assists the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton as
A tugboat assists the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton as it departs its mooring in Surabaya, Indonesia, Aug. 4, 2019. The Stratton’s crew is scheduled to participate in underway exercises alongside the USS Montgome... More
Capt. Bob Little, commanding officer Coast Guard Cutter
Capt. Bob Little, commanding officer Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752), Guy Margalith, principal officer U.S. Consulate Medan, Mr. Isdianto, acting governor of Riau Islands, and Capt. Nyoto Saptono, comman... More
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) crew members
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) crew members use a crane and cargo net to transfer bales of contraband from Bertholf’s 35-foot Long Range Interceptor boat to the cutter following an at-sea interdiction o... More
Rear Adm. Peter Gauiter, the 11th Coast Guard District
Rear Adm. Peter Gauiter, the 11th Coast Guard District commander, presents the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) crew with three snowflake decals representing the three interdictions Bertholf’s crew made d... More
Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche stand
Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche stand under the propellors of the ship before it leaves drydock in Seattle, Wash., May 22, 2018. The Waesche is a 418-foot Legend-class National Security Cutter hom... More
Capt. Bob Little, commanding officer Coast Guard Cutter
Capt. Bob Little, commanding officer Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) and Robert Burgess, consul general of U.S. Consulate Chennai, present a certificates of merit to the owners and operators of Indian-op... More
Lt. Reginald Reynolds, the combat systems officer aboard
Lt. Reginald Reynolds, the combat systems officer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) discusses the mock-boarding training with members of a law enforcement team from the USS Montgomery after the ... More
Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, Coast Guard commandant, gives
Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, Coast Guard commandant, gives the keynote speech during a ceremony to commission Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, the first National Security Cutter to be stationed on the East Coast, Dec. 6, ... More
Past and present Coast Guard Cutter Sherman crewmembers
Past and present Coast Guard Cutter Sherman crewmembers and family members gather on the cutter’s flight deck to render their honors during the cutter’s final evening colors prior to Sherman’s scheduled decommi... More
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding teams
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) boarding teams interdict a low-profile go-fast vessel while patrolling international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, seizing more than 3,100 pounds of suspected cocai... More
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Phil Lago, a boatswains
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Phil Lago, a boatswains mate, is presented a permanent cutterman’s pin from Capt. John Driscoll, Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf’s commanding officer, during a counterdrug patrol... More
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Shipley
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jerome Shipley reenlists for an additional four years of service while aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf during the cutter’s counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Oc... More
Stars illuminate the night sky above the Coast Guard
Stars illuminate the night sky above the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf during the cutter’s counterdrug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, March 11, 2018. Coast Guard cutters patrol international waters off the ... More
Bertholf, US Coast Guard Photo
The first National Security Cutter, the Bertholf, conducts its third contractor sea trials 45 miles off the coast of Mississippi, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Acceptance trials and delivery will follow later this spr... More
The cabin of a low-profile go-fast vessel interdicted
The cabin of a low-profile go-fast vessel interdicted by crew members from the pre-commissioned Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) July 31 in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The crew seize... More