Craig Collins

Craig Collins is a veteran freelance writer and a regular Faircount Media Group contributor who has almost twenty years experience reporting about government, the military, health care and the sciences.

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Coast Guard boat crews Midwest flooding

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Role in National Incident Management Providing interoperability and surge capability within the service and with other agencies

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It was September 2008, and Texas’ Gulf ports – Galveston, Port Arthur/Beaumont, Houston, Freeport, Texas City, and Port Lavaca/Point Comfort – were a wreck. In the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and …

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The 2012 Defense Budget: Personnel Provisions The recently passed FY 2012 defense budget cuts end strengths, trims benefits packages

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For the past 10 years, military personnel have enjoyed an expansion of benefits unrivaled in the history of the nation’s military – salary, health care benefits, pensions, and special pay …

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ice rescue drill at Michigan City

“Always Ready” – The Coast Guard is America’s Maritime First Responder “… People who wear this uniform have resourcefulness and a desire to help others …”

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Petty Officer Andre Altavilla’s job title is flight mechanic – aviation electrical technician, to be exact – but on Dec. 18, 2010, when rescue swimmer Christopher Austin hauled a fisherman’s …

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HITRON Jacksonville training warning shots fired at a non-compliant boat

The U.S. Coast Guard Is a Sound Investment in Homeland Security A history of resourcefulness with limited resources

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The history of the U.S. Coast Guard is a two-century chronicle of people figuring out how to protect the nation’s maritime domain using the resources at hand and operating in …

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Rush and Prairial multilateral law enforcement effort

Coast Guard District 14 – Securing the Vast Pacific International engagement and diplomacy in nearly 70 million square miles of ocean

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If you’re measuring in terms of the amount of water the U.S. Coast Guard has to protect and patrol, the service’s 14th District – with sector commands in Honolulu and …

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PSU 313 homecoming

Staying Ready Semper Paratus is not just a promise from the Coast Guard to Americans – it’s a promise from the service to its members.

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At home, she’s a wife and a youth soccer referee. But in the summer of 2011, as she prepared for her first overseas deployment with the Coast Guard’s Port Security …

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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki

VA Medical Centers: Bigger and Better

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For both Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas, Nev., a full-service VA Medical Center has been a long time coming – and within the year, the wait will be over.

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RADM Sandra Stosz

Interview: Rear Adm. Sandra L. Stosz, USCG 40th Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy

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Rear Adm. Sandra L. Stosz has made a career of setting precedents: A member of the Coast Guard Academy’s class of 1982, she spent 12 years of her career aboard …

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Post 9/11 GI Bill

The G.I. Bill 2.0: New and Improved

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On June 30 of this past summer, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, more commonly known as the Post-9/11 GI Bill, turned three years old. Benefits under the new law …

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War of 1812 Dart capture

The Revenue Cutter Service in the War of 1812 Foundations of the modern Coast Guard

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In the first six months of 2003, at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. Coast Guard sent 11 cutters and four Port Security Units (PSUs) to Iraq in …

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