The Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) transits the Oakland Estuary as the crew navigates home to Coast Guard Base Alameda, California, March 31, 2023, following a 90-day counternarcotics ...

Crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WSML 751) reunite with family and friends after returning to their Base Alameda, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, following a 120-day Indo ...

On Thursday, the Waesche offloaded 18,219 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $239 million, in San Diego. Crews from the Waesche and the Coast Guard Cutter Active interdicted six ...

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter and its 140 crew members returned to California late last month after a nearly 80-day patrol in the Bering Sea. The 418-foot Waesche — a vessel longer than a football ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Coast Guard national security cutter Waesche stopped into San Diego for a brief pit stop to grab fuel and offload 18 tons of cocaine on Wednesday, and we got a sneak a ...

Ryan served as Waesche’s commanding officer from June 2020 to July 2022 and supported Coast Guard operations from the shores of California, to the Western Pacific and Bering Sea. After assuming ...

The Waesche made four of the seizures, totaling more than 14,000 pounds. The largest came on Nov. 20., when the Coast Guard crew took in 5,534 pounds from a self-propelled semi-submersible or ...

U.S. Coast Guard officials said Sunday that they engaged a vessel attempting to smuggle three migrants into the country near ...

A fire on the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Waesche resulted in five minor injuries."The CGC Waesche (WMSL 751) had a fire onboard this past Sunday," Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Brickey told the Washington ...

U.S. Coast Guard The Nov. 20 interception was the first in the Eastern Pacific since 2020, which Captain Robert Mohr, commanding officer of the Waesche, said was a notable achievement.

Waesche is named for Adm. Russell R. Waesche, who was the first Coast Guard commandant to achieve the rank of admiral. He led the Coast Guard from 1936 to 1946, which is the longest tenure of any ...

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche unloaded 14,300 pounds of cocaine on Friday in San Diego. The cocaine was seized in international waters off of the Eastern Pacific Ocean from ...