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* Longer than a football field, highly automated cutter Bertholf ...

* Honduran, US authorities seize 4.6 tonnes of cocaine in Caribbean

Honduran, US coast guards seize 4.6 tonnes of cocaine

* Cubans continue to cross Straits despite many dangers

* Panel OKs $13 million for new Cape May Coast Guard station

* Graduates revive intelligence role for Coast Guard

* US Coast Guard Rescues Father and Son

* Coast Guard makes random boat safety checks

* Coast Guard aids Hampton couple

* Coast Guard Responds To 2 Oil Sheens Near Grand Isle

* Coast Guard rescues stranded man

* US Coast Guard Warning About Hoaxes

* Coast Guard Suspends Search for missing Gonzales bank president

* Rockland Designated A Coast Guard City

* NC-based Coast Guard Cutter to hold charity run

* 9 Rescued After Party Boat Capsizes

* Families see sea life of their loved ones

* Two boaters rescued on Island

* Port security back to normal after radio message ruled no threat

* Sailor rescued nearly 60 miles off Tillamook

* Coast Guard airlifts injured ship worker

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Copyright law prohibits further reproduction of this document outside the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation. This publication is prepared by the Coast Guard Public Affairs staff to apprise personnel of emerging policy issues as they appear in the news media. We attempt to use articles covering subject matter of broad interest to the widest Coast Guard audience possible, and are not able to include all regional articles that may surface. Questions, concerns and comments about the Headquarters NewsBreak should be directed to PA1 David Mosley at 202-372-4613 or David.B.Mosley@uscg.mil.

You can now view HQ NewsBreak at: http://cgls.uscg.mil/pipermail/coast_guard_e-newsletter/.

* GAO: Coast Guard needs more acquisition experts

            GAO recommends more changes to Deepwater acquisition

* Golf great Palmer to get Lone Sailor award

* Coast Guard issues conditional consent for Broadwater terminal

* Coast Guard Searches For Missing Kayaker

* US Coast Guard improves Westhaven Children's Home

* Father-son sailors found safe after Coast Guard search

* Coast Guard rescues 2 men

* US Coast Guard recovers body from Detroit River

* Gonzales banker missing, feared lost at sea in Bahamas

* Security holes found at Port

* 6 rescued off sinking boat

* Child Rescued from Lake Michigan

* Alder in for repairs

* USCG to trial airship patrols

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  Copyright law prohibits further reproduction of this document outside the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation. This publication is prepared by the Coast Guard Public Affairs staff to apprise personnel of emerging policy issues as they appear in the news media. We attempt to use articles covering subject matter of broad interest to the widest Coast Guard audience possible, and are not able to include all regional articles that may surface. Questions, concerns and comments about the Headquarters NewsBreak should be directed to PA1 David Mosley at 202-372-4613 or David.B.Mosley@uscg.mil.

  You can now view HQ NewsBreak at: http://cgls.uscg.mil/pipermail/coast_guard_e-newsletter/.

* Coast Guard halts fishing vessel trip for safety violations

* High court reduces Exxon oil spill damages

Damages Cut Against Exxon in Valdez Case

* Coast Guard rescues distressed kayaker from bay

* Coast Guard Searches for Deputies in Braford County Swamp

* Captain of grounded schooner, Coast Guard act fast to stem crisis

* Boy grateful Coast Guard rescued him

* Coast Guard airlifts drowning victim

* CG Rescues Man And 14-Year-Old Girl

* 2 Texans disappear off Puerto Rico's western coast

* Ship Operator, Chief Engineer Plead Guilty to Falsifying Records

* FEATURE-Colombian smugglers take cocaine under the waves

* Big Brother Big Sister of the Year

* Six newly launched satellites will aid in tracking ships

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You can now view HQ NewsBreak at: http://cgls.uscg.mil/pipermail/coast_guard_e-newsletter/.

* US Coast Guard deploys to Arctic to find answers

* Coast Guard looks to become more vital part of military

* Distress calls costly when they are fake

* Blimp joins anti-smuggling patrols off Florida

* FLIR Systems Announces $23.1 Million Delivery Order From the US ...

* Law Enforcement Associates Receives Order From US Coast Guard for ...

* Schooner runs aground off the coast of Maine; 41 passengers evacuated

* Coast Guard reopens portion of Ohio River

* OCEANSIDE: Coast Guard halts search for missing men, plane

* Coast Guard swoops in to save condors from fire

            Video: Endangered Condors Rescued From Path of Wildfire

            Pentagon Channel http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=312227

* Coast Guard Urges Boating Safety after Seven Drownings

* Coast Guard, Navy Rescue Two From Grounded Vessel

* Coast Guard helps in trailhead rescue

* Coast Guard offers helicopter flyover

* Coast Guard investigates grounding off Maine coast

* USCG Station Juneau patrols Icy Strait

* CG Leads Counterterrorism Exercise

* Coast Guard to build $21M facility in Algiers

* GAO says USCG patrol boat strategy is working

* Suspected drug drop in Florida Keys turns out to be film scene

* $50K of cocaine retrieved from wake of Port St. Lucie man's boat

* Photographic Bootcamp

* Coast Guard pulls boy, 12, from river

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  Copyright law prohibits further reproduction of this document outside the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation. This publication is prepared by the Coast Guard Public Affairs staff to apprise personnel of emerging policy issues as they appear in the news media. We attempt to use articles covering subject matter of broad interest to the widest Coast Guard audience possible, and are not able to include all regional articles that may surface. Questions, concerns and comments about the Headquarters NewsBreak should be directed to PA1 David Mosley at 202-372-4613 or David.B.Mosley@uscg.mil.

  You can now view HQ NewsBreak at: http://cgls.uscg.mil/pipermail/coast_guard_e-newsletter/.

* Freighter Slams Into Wall At Miami Beach Marina

Panamanian Freighter Strikes Marina Wall

* Ship-tracking satellite launched

* Local officers sent to Kuwait

* Coast Guard searches for victims of small plane crash near Oceanside

* Coast Guard searching for missing boaters

* Coast Guard: Northwest boating fatalities increase

* Coast Guard assists in Helicopter crash off Vineyard

* Starving Haitians eye risky seas

* Coast Guard credits container ship crew with rescue

* Coast Guard cutter "Diligence" Returns to Wilmington

* Coast Guard assists fishing crew after fire

* JUNEAU, Alaska -- A fire aboard a container ship traveling in the ...

* Five people jump from burning boat in Port Orchard

* Small oil spill cleaned up on Ohio

* Never be hesitant to take command

* USCG rescues boaters off Cape May

* Engine fire forces New Bedford fishing vessel back to port

* Pentagon Channel

DART responds to Iowa flooding

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=305911

CA search and oil spill

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=305917

* Coast Guard Channel - The change of Command Ceremony in Bahrain, flood response in the Midwest, and the Coast Guard Foundation Dinner in our nation's capital featuring speeches by Admiral Loy, Admiral Allen, and Admiral Mullen.

http://www.coastguardchannel.com/news/newscast.shtml

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Copyright law prohibits further reproduction of this document outside the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation. This publication is prepared by the Coast Guard Public Affairs staff to apprise personnel of emerging policy issues as they appear in the news media. We attempt to use articles covering subject matter of broad interest to the widest Coast Guard audience possible, and are not able to include all regional articles that may surface. Questions, concerns and comments about the Headquarters NewsBreak should be directed to PA1 David Mosley at 202-372-4613 or David.B.Mosley@uscg.mil.

You can now view HQ NewsBreak at: http://cgls.uscg.mil/pipermail/coast_guard_e-newsletter/.