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Supporters of arming icebreakers note that the Coast Guard ships are the only American heavy vessels able to traverse the massive glaciers and ice drifts that pockmark the Arctic waterways, but opponents say it sends a dangerous signal to Russia. (Associated Press/File)

How the Coast Guard is prepping cruise missiles on icebreakers as another Cold War heats up

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 26, 2017, file photo, protestors attend a rally in New York City, to protest President Donald Trump's announcement of a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military. Trump’s tweets declaring transgender individuals unwelcome in his military has plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, seeing off a flurry of meetings to devise a new policy that could lead to hundreds of service members being discharged. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Military scrambles for transgender policy after Trump tweets

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 26, 2017, file photo, protestors attend a rally in New York City, to protest President Donald Trump's announcement of a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military. Trump’s tweets declaring transgender individuals unwelcome in his military has plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, seeing off a flurry of meetings to devise a new policy that could lead to hundreds of service members being discharged. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Military scrambles for transgender policy after Trump tweets

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this Feb. 23, 2017 photo, a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement team from the USCG cutter Stratton boards a small fishing boat that was stopped carrying close to 700 kilos of pure cocaine, in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles south of the Guatemala-El Salvador border. Hidden in the bales of cocaine was a GPS tracking device wrapped inside a condom, a sure sign the drug bosses behind the shipment knew right away it didn't reach its destination. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

US brings in more technology to fight drug smuggling at sea

By DARIO LOPEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this July 19, 2015 photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crew members secure cocaine bales from a self-propelled semi-submersible interdicted in international waters off the coast of Central America. The Coast Guard recovered more than 6 tons of cocaine from the 40-foot vessel. Cocaine seizures by the U.S. Coast Guard off Latin America have jumped to their highest levels in five years. Officials say Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, drug traffickers are increasingly turning to the sea to get their loads to U.S. markets. The $1.8 billion in seized cocaine comes after Washington restored the Coast Guard budget to its previous levels, following a 25 percent cut in operating costs in 2013. (Petty Officer 2nd Class LaNola Stone/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

Cocaine seizures skyrocket off Latin America’s Pacific coast

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Coast Guard vice admiral tapped as next commandant

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

Coast Guard: Little seafloor oil from Gulf spill

By CAIN BURDEAU - Associated Press