Sea Service News

This Navy release features a great photo gallery.  See it HERE. 

USCGC Bertholf, based in Alameda, California, and USS Curtis Wilbur participated recently in a freedom of navigation operation through the Taiwan Strait.  Here's the Military Times ARTICLE.

Read the Navy's "Growler Record of Decision " on its Preferred Alternative (PDF).

The nation's only heavy icebreaker tied up at mid-morning March 11th at Coast Guard Base Seattle (Pier 36), after 105 days at sea in support of Operation Deep Freeze.   

Executive Order will fast-track experienced service members in getting merchant marine credentials.  Read about it in this Navy Times article.

The one thing you don't want to hear announced on a ship at sea is "Fire... fire... fire!"  But it happened Feb. 10 aboard the Seattle-based heavy icebreaker, more than 600 miles north of McMurdo Station, Antarctica.   Fortunately, there were no injuries.

Read the Coast Guard NEWS RELEASE. 

(Web Editor Phil Johnson, then a LTJG, was Master of Ceremonies for Polar Star's commissioning in 1976).

The money for one new ship and planning for another was included in the federal budget.  Read more in this USNI ARTICLE. 

The contract is to be awarded THIS WEEK. 

Navy Region Northwest warns sailors and civilians to prepare for a possible future shutdown.  Read this article from the KITSAP SUN. 

In an unusually forceful statement, Admiral Karl Schultz calls the Coast Guard pay stoppage during the partial government shutdown "UNACCEPTABLE." 

Former Master Chief Petty Officers of Coast Guard express ANGER.  

Here's how to help Coast Guard Members in the Northwest.  See the DONATION LINKS.