Three small parts made one big difference for the crew of GC 109 Orion, a Dominican Republic patrol boat that received the critical components fabricated by a damage controlman aboard Coast Guard ...

A lookout spotted three black spheres in the water, and the officer of the deck swiftly brought the frigate to a halt; he proceeded to back out of a minefield. However, the mine's foil trigger was ...

Navy Damage Controlman Chief Daniel Gutierrez, of Victorville, was part of the chief pinning ceremony on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson in the ...

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Active, a 210-foot medium endurance Reliance-class cutter homeported in Port Angeles, Washington, interdicts more than 1 ton of cocaine from four suspected drug ...

Sailors place plugs in the hull of the USS Buttercup during a training exercise. Norfolk area Sailors and Coast Guardsmen test their damage control skills aboard the USS Buttercup during general ...

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) provided assistance to 25 mariners in the early hours of March 19, after receiving a distress call from a civilian ship taking on water.

Most ordinary people might get nervous to step out onto Safeco Field in Seattle and throw the first pitch at a Mariners game. But Justin Kuxhausen, a damage controlman working on the Tongue ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — There’s been a sense of gravity about training at the 7th Fleet’s damage-control school since a pair of deadly warship collisions that claimed 17 sailors’ lives last year.