US Coast Guard helicopter pilots and precision marksmen are constantly training and evolving their strategies. The squadrons are instrumental to the drug interdiction process, hunting drug boats from ...

Coast Guard personnel have set procedures to follow when they're boarding suspected drug boats. Not every interdiction plays out the way they think it will, prompting changes in the moment. Weather, ...

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alert returned to their home port in Cape Canaveral on Thursday following a 45-day counter-drug patrol ...

The U.S. Coast Guard failed to meet drug interdiction goals from fiscal 2015 to 2024, the Government Accountability Office found.

U.S. agencies have intensified maritime drug-interdiction efforts, expanding enforcement under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and increasing pressure on commercial vessels targeted by drug ...