ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 6: U.S. Coast Guard’s Samuel Ferrel is sillhouetted against the smoke as fellow gunner mates Andrew Poplin, Benjamin Bermudez and Capt. Justin Aldridge conduct a 21-cannon salute in honor of the burial of former President George H.W. Bush at the U.S. Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 6: U.S. Coast Guard gunner mates Andrew Poplin, left, Benjamin Bermudez and Capt. Justin Aldridge conduct a 21-cannon salute in honor of the burial of former President George H.W. Bush at the U.S. Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 6: U.S. Coast Guard gunner mates Andrew Poplin, left, Benjamin Bermudez and Capt. Justin Aldridge conduct a 21-cannon salute in honor of the burial of former President George H.W. Bush at the U.S. Coast Guard Island in … [Read more...] about U.S. Coast Guard gives 21-cannon salute in Alameda as final tribute for George H.W. Bush
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U.S. Coast Guard to give 21-cannon salute in Alameda as final tribute for George H.W. Bush
By Rick Hurd | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: December 6, 2018 at 11:46 am | UPDATED: December 6, 2018 at 11:53 am ALAMEDA — The final sendoff for former President George H.W. Bush will include a tribute that won’t go unnoticed here. The U.S. Coast Guard will conduct a 21-cannon salute that will last 21 minutes, beginning at noon Thursday. The Coast Guard advised that sounds generated from the salute may be heard all over the island. The salute will come hours after a final funeral service for the nation’s 41st president in his hometown of Houston. After that service, a special funeral train began carrying Bush’s casket began its journey to College Station. Bush will be buried at a private service in the family plot on the grounds of his presidential library. Check back for updates. Report an error Policies and Standards Contact Us … [Read more...] about U.S. Coast Guard to give 21-cannon salute in Alameda as final tribute for George H.W. Bush
Environmental groups sue U.S. Coast Guard over Great Lakes oil spill response plans
Beth LeBlanc The Detroit News Published 9:09 p.m. UTC Aug 22, 2018 Two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Coast Guard for its admitted inability to respond adequately to a Great Lakes oil spill and seeking to invalidate the response plans for facilities such as Enbridge, which operates Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Detroit federal district court stems from comments former Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft made during a November congressional committee hearing, when he told lawmakers the agency is not prepared for a major pipeline oil spill in the Great Lakes. His comments, the lawsuit said, belie and invalidate the Coast Guard-approved Northern Michigan Area Contingency Plan and violate the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, according to a statement from the National Wildlife Federation and the Environmental Law & Policy Center. The current plan leaves the Coast Guard unprepared to address a worst-case spill from … [Read more...] about Environmental groups sue U.S. Coast Guard over Great Lakes oil spill response plans
Trump Administration Will Send ‘As Many’ National Guard Members ‘As It Takes’ to Secure the Southern Border
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Friday that the approximately 4,000 U.S. National Guard members the Trump administration seeks to send to the border is just “a good start.” “It’s going to be as many as it takes,” Sanders told reporters when asked about the 4,000.Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen made the announcement on Wednesday that the administration would send National Guard troops to the border in coordination with border state governors. Nielsen indicated that troops would be deployed immediately. President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that he was looking to send 2,000 to 4,000 troops to the border. Nielsen compared the deployment to President George W. Bush’s Operation Jump Start, which mobilized up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the border. The operation was initiated in May 2006 and lasted about two years. President Barack Obama launched Operation Phalanx in 2010, … [Read more...] about Trump Administration Will Send ‘As Many’ National Guard Members ‘As It Takes’ to Secure the Southern Border
Trump, stymied on wall, to send troops to U.S.-Mexico border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said on Wednesday, in a move that was likely to escalate tensions with a key U.S. ally. The Trump administration was working with the governors of the four southwestern U.S. states along the border to deploy the Guard, said Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, adding that the troops would not be involved in law enforcement. In a supporting role, possibly for aerial reconnaissance, the Guard will help U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel with stopping illegal immigrants from entering the country, Nielsen said at a White House briefing with reporters. In a memorandum laying out the new initiative, Trump directed Defense Secretary James Mattis to request the use of National Guard personnel to help the Department of Homeland Security in securing the southern border. He ordered … [Read more...] about Trump, stymied on wall, to send troops to U.S.-Mexico border