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Coast Guard

Your Red Snapper Filet Might Have Been Caught By Drug Runners

Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.

John Burnett Texas Monthly Nov 2021 Permalink

Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker

Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.

Michael Lewis Bloomberg Opinion Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Into the Storm

Two ships, a supercharged hurricane, and one Coast Guard helicopter.

Tristram Korten GQ Oct 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’

How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.

Seth Freed Wessler New York Times Magazine Nov 2017 25min Permalink

Travel

Marooned Among the Polar Bears

A helicopter pilot crash-lands in the Arctic.

Justin Nobel Popular Mechanics Feb 2016 Permalink