Our roadmap for the future to best serve the American people.
Apr 03 2025
Force Design 2028
Our roadmap for the future to best serve the American people.
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This resource is designed to provide clear, up-to-date information about recent Presidential Executive Orders and their implementation across the Coast Guard workforce. (CAC)
Feb 21 2025
Presidential Directives Implementation FAQ
This resource is designed to provide clear, up-to-date information about recent Presidential Executive Orders and their implementation across the Coast Guard workforce. (CAC)
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Featured News
The U.S. Coast Guard's new
"Chief Petty Officer Class" announced for new Waterways Commerce Cutters
Aug. 15, 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard's new "Chief Petty Officer Class" of Waterways Commerce Cutters will be named in honor of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers.
Divers deployed to Vietnam aboard the cutter Point Young. (U.S. Coast Guard)
Coast Guard Diving—over 80 years of history!
Aug. 15, 2025
The Coast Guard has a rich history of underwater operations. Since the early 1940s, the service has nurtured a diving capability that has become vital to modern Coast Guard missions.
Rendering of the National Coast Guard Museum.
One small steel beam, one giant step for the Coast Guard!
Aug. 15, 2025
The National Coast Guard Museum raises its first steel beam on CG Day.
165-foot cutter Thetis. (Coast Guard Collection)
Rear Admiral Frederick Billard—commander, warrior, educator and mastermind of rapid expansion
Aug. 13, 2025
"Frederick Chamberlayne Billard must rank with the greatest commandants of the Coast Guard." - Robert Erwin Johnson, Guardians of the Sea
U.S. Coast Guard logo.
Coast Guard working to address backlog of PPM claims
Aug. 12, 2025
What members need to know.
The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Earl Cunningham (WPC 1159) arrives to their homeport in Kodiak, Alaska, May 31, 2025. This was the first time the cutter had arrived to its homeport following its construction in Lockport, Louisiana. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shannon Kearney)
If not us, who? A conversation with the CO of our newest Fast Response Cutter
Aug. 11, 2025
Coast Guard Cutter Earl Cunningham today joins the fleet as our 59th FRC. The commissioning ceremony's biggest VIP? Cunningham's great-great-grandson.
Wind-Class icebreaker Northwind breaking ice in the Antarctic in 1947 during Operation High Jump. This mission marked the first of many Coast Guard icebreaker assignments to Antarctica. (U.S. Coast Guard)
Polar icebreaking—The short history of a BIG mission
Aug. 8, 2025
Since the late 1800s, the U.S. Coast Guard has been essential to U.S. polar operations.
U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak continues construction for a new housing project at the Nemetz Park Site, Aug. 23, 2024. Base Kodiak is constructing around 50 units to accommodate 200 service members and their families that will be attached to the polar-class cutters scheduled to commission in Kodiak within the next few years. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cameron Snell)
Coast Guard announces first Nationwide Housing Satisfaction Survey
Aug. 6, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to shape the future of Coast Guard housing.