These things are needed if the Coast Guard wants to keep people or grow the force. In addition to the billion in shoreside funding, Baltimore’s strong-performing Coast Guard Yard is set to ...

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard’s personnel shortage is expected to grow worse in 2024, impacting the service’s ability to respond to a hurricane or an oil spill or other major disaster, a ...

Last year, the House passed the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2024, a bipartisan bill that provided critical funding for new cutters, shoreside repairs, housing upgrades, and expanded ...

“In addition to making the Storis fit for military service, the Coast Guard will need to make shoreside infrastructure investments to accommodate the ship. The design work needed to determine ...

health care and housing and other shoreside support for those who may serve up to 285 days a year at sea. “We need to make it easier for them to stay,” Fagan said. Advertising The Coast Guard ...

The new cutters are part of an overall $22.5 billion supplemental to the Coast Guard’s bottom line that also includes $3 billon for new aircraft and billions more for shoreside infrastructure ...