Fireman Jose Castro-Acosta salutes during morning colors during a drug offload from Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf in San Diego, Sep. 10. 2020. The narcotics, worth an estimated $390 million, were seized ...

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. (U.S. Coast Guard ...

The Navy's new frigate will be obsolete from the start. It's not great, but it is what we have, and if many can be built a ...

The U.S. Coast Guard took final acceptance of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, the first of the Legend class National Security Cutter fleet, at the cutter's homeport of Alameda, Calif., Friday, May 8.

ALAMEDA (KPIX 5) – The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter returned to the Bay Area for the holidays Monday after offloading 18,000 pounds of seized cocaine in San Diego. Nearly 120 Coast Guard families ...

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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman.Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the ...

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter is headed out on a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific for the first time in years, amid a heightened focus on the region and ramped-up tensions with China. The 170 ...

During the June Shangri-La Dialogue with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, then-U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented his counterpart with a gift: a book filled with 32 pages of ...

The Coast Guard cutter Bertholf performing small boat training on Jan. 22, shortly after the crew departed for a patrol of the western Pacific. (Chief Petty Officer John Masson/Coast Guard) A U.S.