Sentences with phrase «us coast guard»

But «primarily, it's what we call pangas,» Vice Adm. Charles Ray, the Coast Guard deputy commandant for operations, said during the hearing.

The area covered by traffickers around the Galapagos Islands is as big as the continental US, Ray said, leaving Coast Guard assets assigned to the area stretched thin.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard and FRA officials were still on site and continued to monitor the river.

«On any given day we'll have between six to 10 Coast Guard cutters down here,» he added.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon travels to an oil rig in the disputed waters of the South China Sea and gets caught in a chase by Chinese coast guards.

They say the smooth, sustained maiden flight over the Hudson was FAA and U.S. Coast Guard approved.

Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews, and the Mobile fire and police departments «saturated a search area covering three square miles» near the mouth of the Mobile River, and the investigation continues, a Coast Guard spokesperson said.

U.S. Coast Guard air units and boats have rescued more than 4,000 people, Captain Kevin Oditt, commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston - Galveston, said at an afternoon news conference.

Representatives of the Jersey City police and the Coast Guard could not be reached immediately.

The water line is higher than the roofs of some houses, leaving them completely submerged, said Commander Jim Spitler, commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Houston.

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

Christopher Woody: The Coast Guard is a military branch but is also a member of the intelligence community.

Oily matter that reached two islands in Japan is likely to come from a sunken Iranian tanker, the Japan Coast Guard said.

We have over 60 bilateral agreements that allow the Coast Guard to take enforcement action in the high seas or even in the territorial seas of other nations, to basically be their maritime police, if you will, and we have these agreements in many of the drug - source and transit zones here in the Western Hemisphere.

The Coast Guard has 25 helicopters and three airplanes conducting search and rescue operations, he said.

After a two - year - long push by the Coast Guard to phase out the last of the lighthouse keepers prompted public outcry, the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans scrapped the plan.

Many countries look to the United States Coast Guard for setting maritime standards across the world as well, not just on safety but also on security and also on environmental issues, so very unique in that regard.

So that range of responsibilities, how does that align with the other military branches and how does it distinguish the Coast Guard?

The U.S. Coast Guard would instead provide summaries of crew interviews to the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), which would share them with the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), he said.

(Saildrone's boats can also report to the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard when they find narco - subs or boats smuggling drugs.)

The U. S. Coast Guard, which is investigating on behalf of the National Transportation Safety Board, has interviewed the crew of the container ship.

(Saildrone's boats can also report to the DHS and the Coast Guard when they find narco - subs and boats smuggling drugs.)

The company's data - as - a-service program charges $ 2,500 a day, and customers currently include commercial fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The company's data - as - a-service goes for $ 2,500 a day, and customers currently include commercial fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security.

In early September, Japanese officials arrested a Chinese fishing crew, claiming their boat purposely rammed two coast guard vessels.

Today, the group launched its first website, ArmedForcesMBA.com, where it is selling separate sets of essays for $ 100 each from successful Harvard applicants from each of five services: the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines Corps, and Navy.

Military service has long brought with it a highly valued pension for members of the armed forces, who have made their careers in the U.S. Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy and Coast Guard.

«My friends in the media, use this picture of #WalterScott in all his dignity,» tweeted South Carolina lawyer and CNN commentator Bakari Sellers yesterday, along with an image of Mr. Scott in his Coast Guard uniform in front of an American flag.

«My first reaction is that he's speaking to graduates of the US Coast Guard Academy, and these are men and women who will be on the frontlines of protecting the homeland,» Tapper said on CNN.

I worked with the Coast Guard to develop professionalism in the industry and to work hand - in - hand with them.

There was a time when, if you wedged your boat on a sandbar or ran out of gas while racing a dolphin, you could call the U.S. Coast Guard for a rescue.

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

More than 800 oil spills happened in the mid-Atlantic region during the same time period, according to a 1973 Coast Guard survey.

Perhaps my perspective has been formed by my Coast Guard experience.

In a troubling sign of escalating tensions, dozens of Chinese ships confronted Vietnamese coast guard boats approaching an oil rig deployed by Chinese offshore oil company CNOOC in waters claimed by both nations.

Meet Sharon Virts - Mozer, the founder and CEO of FCi Federal, which provides «back office» services to federal government agencies like the State Department and U.S. Coast Guard.

The first bust was May 4, when a coast guard patrol stopped a boat near the Galapagos Islands with two Ecuadoreans and a Colombian aboard, finding 964 kilograms of cocaine reportedly destined for Central American.

During Trump's address to the Coast Guard's graduates, he seemed to veer from the script to address his adversarial relationship with the press, which he has described as the enemy of the people.

On Tuesday, a US Coast Guard unit from North Carolina reinforced that fact after it received a signal from an emergency beacon coming from a sinking fishing vessel about 60 miles east of Cape Charles, Virginia.

President Donald Trump went off script during his Wednesday commencement speech to Coast Guard Academy graduates, saying critics and the media had treated him more unfairly than any politician «in history.»

But when his close friend, Bud Worsham, was killed in a car accident, Palmer quit school and enlisted for a three - year hitch in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Secretary of Homeland Security Gen. John Kelly poked fun at President Donald Trump's issues with the press at a Coast Guard Academy commencement on Wednesday.

Shaken, he quit school and spent three years in the Coast Guard.

U.S. Coast Guard officials also said interference with ships» GPS disrupted operations at a port for several hours in 2014 and at another terminal in 2015.

In June this year, a ship in the Black Sea reported to the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center that its GPS system had been disrupted and that over 20 ships in the same area had been similarly affected.

Canadian workers at Canadian shipyards will build new ships for the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard.

An unsolicited bid to provide icebreakers and multi-purpose ships for the coast guard was submitted to government last month

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — A Metro Vancouver shipyard will build up to 10 more non-combat ships for the Canadian Coast Guard.

HALIFAX — Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Ottawa will spend up to $ 448 million on new vessels for the coast guard.

After erroneously alleging that the mayor of Vancouver hadn't contacted the federal government to express opposition to cuts to the coast guard, James Moore heckled the clarification, delivered by the