WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 11: General Charles Q. Brown, USAF, during a hearing for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the US Senate in Washington, DC. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Regarding the Feb. 23 front-page article “ Pentagon cull sends U.S. into unknown ”:

California Coast Guardsmen are seeing an influx of migrant crossings by boat — and with them, more foreign nationals from U.S. adversary countries including Russia and China.

The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting flight operations to Texas and California as part of the administration's deportation efforts.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday caught nearly two dozen illegal immigrants in a boat off the coast of Point Loma in California.

The United States Coast Guard and the Port of Virginia Maritime Incident Response Team are hosting their 19th annual Todd Dooley Search and Rescue Forum, with more than 200 first responders from 40 different agencies from across the Commonwealth and beyond coming to Hampton to improve and learn from one another.