Unlike other service members, members of the Coast Guard can be forced to leave the service a couple years shy of qualifying for retirement at 20 years of service if their enlistment expires and they are denied reenlistment.

The new filings brings the total to 29 cadets and prospective cadets have filed complaints, and lawyers expect more claims will come. The former cadets claim they were assaulted or abused by their peers while attending the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and blame academy rules.

The academy’s provost said the academy will continue to teach cadets “about weather patterns, atmospheric phenomena, paleoclimatology, meteorology, oceanography, geospatial sciences, the conditions of sea ice, ocean conditions, the characteristics of coastal environments ... other similar topics.”

Authorities on Monday suspended the search for a Marshall Islands sea ambulance and its crew of four, missing since March 3, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star departed the Antarctic region last week after 65 days south of the Antarctic Circle as part of of Operation Deep Freeze 2025.

Search aircraft and patrol boats from the U.S. and the Marshall Islands continued searching Friday for a sea ambulance and its crew of four reported missing in Micronesian waters five days earlier.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is urging U.S. Transportation Command to take immediate action over “failures” in pickup and delivery of household goods for hundreds of relocating military families under a sweeping overhaul of how items are shipped and stored.

A frantic phone call about three missing boaters led the U.S. Coast Guard to find a capsized 20-foot boat in the dark off southwest Florida.

More than 200 additional troops have been deployed to Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to help support the detention of migrants at the facility.

A pair of American military vessels responding to a mayday call this week saved the crew of a sinking cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. Central Command.