The United States Coast Guard is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the country's eight uniformed services. Th
A USCG HH-65 Dolphin helicopter flies overhead as the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute steams near Deepwater Horizon spill site, July 4, 2010.
USCG helicopter, Rescue swimmers conduct search and rescue after Hurricane Irma
A member of USCG Maritime Security Response Team West trains for a simulated terrorist threat aboard the motor vessel
Maritime Safety and Security Team conduct operations in the Gulf of Aden Sept. 8, 2009 part of Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counterpiracy operations off the coast of Somalia.
The Legend-class cutter, also known as the National Security Cutter and Maritime Security Cutter, Large, is the largest active patrol cutter class of the United States Coast Guard, the size of a friga
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…defined as any vessel more than 65 feet (20 m) long, that has a permanently assigned crew and accommodations for the extended support of that crew. National Security Cutter (WMSL): Also known as the Legend-class, these are the Coast Guard's latest class of 418-foot (127 m) cutter. At 418 ft. these are the largest USCG…
USCGC Bertholf, the first National Security Cutter
Bertholf underway in formation with the Navy during Exercise Northern Edge, 2011
USCGC Hamilton and TCG Turgutreis in the Black Sea, April 2021
A long range interceptor aboard the cutter Bertholf