WASHINGTON --- The U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center announced Tuesday a voluntary online service that enables mariners to verify compliance with automated identification system carriage requirements.

The Vessel Identification Verification Service (VIVS) is a new web-based, self-help service that allows ships agents, owners, and operators to search their respective vessel or fleets to determine if they are in compliance with static automated identification system data mandates.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Coast Guard announced the selection of SN Gregory W. Jacquet of the Coast Guard cutter Valiant, homeported in Mayport, Florida, and GM1 Nicole K. Cimino of Port Security Unit 313 in Everett, Washington, as the 2016 Enlisted Persons of the Year.

WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Lucas Robert Castro of Davenport has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2017-2018 school year.

NORFOLK, Va. — The Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it finalized its Major Incident Investigation (MII) Report into the July 2016 death of a Coast Guard recruit at Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) Cape May, N.J. Seaman Recruit Aaron Redd died July 7, 2016, after collapsing at the training center during an initial fitness assessment run with his recruit company.