US Coast Guard Sector Key West / Facebook Boat Explodes on Maiden Voyage, Onlookers Scramble in Shocking Rescue While it certainly wasn't a pleasant welcome to the area, the couple was blessed to have made it out of the disaster with minor injuries. By Amanda Thomason, The Western Journal October 22, 2021
NOAA / screen shot Disaster at US Oil Hub: Coast Guard on Scene as Oil Hemorrhages Into the Gulf It looks like Hurricane Ida is still wreaking havoc a week after making landfall in Louisiana. By Jesse Stiller, The Western Journal September 5, 2021
@USCGSoutheast / Twitter Biden's Forces Send Desperate Cubans Back to Communist Regime After They Risk It All for Freedom As thousands of illegal migrants flood into the country, 27 refugees fleeing communism were sent back to the Cuban regime. By Kipp Jones, The Western Journal July 29, 2021
@USCGAlaska / Twitter Horror in Alaska: Man Stalked and Savaged by Grizzly Was Down to His Last Two Rounds, Saved After Helicopter Detour The grizzly bear wreaked havoc on him and the dwelling. It was reported that the bear actually ripped the door off of the dwelling. By Kipp Jones, The Western Journal July 24, 2021
First Coast News via 10 Tampa Bay / Facebook Search for Missing Diver Ends After Damaged Gear Is Found Indicating Encounter with 'Marine Predator' On Tuesday, at around 1 p.m., some of Obi's diving gear was located around 250 yards from where he'd last been seen. By Amanda Thomason, The Western Journal July 15, 2021
@flightradar24 / Twitter Boeing 737 Plane Forced to Make Emergency Water Landing Near Hawaii After Reporting Engine Problems Two pilots were rescued Friday by the Coast Guard after they landed their Boeing 737-200 in the ocean after reporting engine trouble. By Kipp Jones, The Western Journal July 2, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Alaska / Facebook Coast Guard Deployed After Inflatable Float Is Swept Out to Ocean, Friends Narrowly Escape 'Bad Situation' 'It was a little windy but I never thought in a million years we would be drug out so fast and so far,' Spence said. By Amanda Thomason, The Western Journal June 20, 2021
Travis AFB / Flickr Actor Chris Pratt Stands Up to Hollywood's Anti-American Rhetoric in Memorial Day Tribute Actor Chris Pratt wrote a heartwarming tribute to America's fallen heroes for Memorial Day, and it's a slap in the face to Hollywood. By Andrew Thornebrooke, The Western Journal May 31, 2021
Gage Skidmore / Flickr Biden Repeats Quote Made Famous by Mao as Military Seemingly Set to Begin Witch Hunt of 'Extremists' in the Ranks More concerning than Joe Biden's choice of words in his Coast Guard commencement speech is the context in which they were said. By Grant Atkinson, The Western Journal May 21, 2021
Reagan Library / YouTube screen shot; C-SPAN via New York Post / YouTube screen shot Biden Appropriates Joke Reagan Previously Delivered at Coast Guard Academy Graduation and Flubs It Biden, who has a history of lifting lines from other politicians' speeches, apparently did so again in a commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy. By Randy DeSoto May 20, 2021
Gage Skidmore / Flickr Biden Calls Coast Guard Academy Graduates 'a Really Dull Class' When They Don't Clap During His Speech Biden appeared frustrated after a joke he told didn’t garner any laughs and insulted a class of Coast Guard Academy graduates. By Kipp Jones, The Western Journal May 19, 2021
KSWB-TV screen shot 23 Illegal Immigrants Intercepted by Border Patrol on California Coast The Border Patrol intercepted a small boat carrying 23 people who were trying to illegally enter the United States. By Andrew Jose, The Western Journal May 18, 2021
U.S. Navy US Military Fires Dozens of Shots in Response to Iranian Ships Acting 'Very Aggressively' A US Coast Guard cutter swatted away Iranian vessels with two rounds of warning shots, the Department of Defense said. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal May 11, 2021
@trommelkopf / Unsplash Biden Admin Accused of 'Disrespecting the US' After Reported Plan to Sell Piece of 9/11 History to Indonesia Emerges The Biden administration is moving to sell to Indonesia a Coast Guard cutter that saved thousands of New Yorkers on 9/11. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal April 20, 2021
Lt. Riley Beecher / Coast Guard US Military Comes to the Rescue After Cuban Nationals Get Stuck on Deserted Island for 33 Days The US Coast Guard has rescued two men and one woman from a deserted island in a search-and-rescue mission. By Jack Cowhick, The Western Journal February 15, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City / Facebook screen shot Coast Guard Flies to 'Loneliest Place in the World' to Fix Remote Lighthouse While photos of the lighthouse illustrate its haunting beauty, it's a mercy the beacon no longer requires people on-site to operate it. By Amanda Thomason, The Western Journal February 6, 2021
Zhang Bin / Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China It Looks Like China Is Building a Foothold in the Atlantic, Less than 100 Miles from Florida After scrambling the world order with a viral pandemic, China is taking full advantage of distracted nations to further its interests. By Jared Harris, The Western Journal December 23, 2020