The families of two U.S. Coast Guard members killed during World War I received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their descendants in Florida Thursday. Coast Guard Capt. Michael Kahle ...

Open warfare is always harrowing, but the Cold War was horrifically tense ... USCGC Mellon fired one in 1990, the only Coast Guard cutter ever to do so. After the USSR collapsed, the missiles ...

There are several classes of Coast Guard ships that are called cutters. Learn where the name came from and why it's used so widely in today's service.

NEWPORT, R.I. (WAVY) — A Coast ... Guard’s newest cutter. But it wasn’t until after the ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island, that he found out the ship’s namesake was a World War II hero ...

This week helps celebrate the 80th anniversary of America's only World War II armed forces hockey club. The Coast Guard Cutters completed two championship seasons in the Eastern Amateur Hockey ...

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, the USCGC Calhoun (WMSL ... Calhoun served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before enlisting in the Coast Guard in 1946.