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May 14, 2021

Coast Guard updates mask guidance for vaccinated personnel

It is recommended you get vaccinated as soon as possible.

Posed photograph of Filipino Steward’s Mate 1st Class Modesto Magbanoa, who served in both world wars. (Ancestry.com)

May 14, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Asian cuttermen--the first 100 years of unique service history

Here's a bit of history of Asian and Pacific Islanders serving in the Coast Guard

Coast Guard Exchange at Centerville, Virginia.

May 13, 2021

Your Coast Guard Exchange benefit working for you: improved services, expanded patronage

Shop your local Coast Guard Exchange

The official podcast of the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard.

May 13, 2021

MCPOCG launches his official podcast

The first episode of 1MC hits the airwaves May 16.

Capt. Zeita Merchant relieved Capt. Jason Tama as the commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector New York during a change-of-command ceremony at Sector New York, May 7, 2021. A change-of-command ceremony is a time-honored tradition conducted before the assembled crew, as well as honored guests and dignitaries to formally demonstrate the continuity of the authority within a command. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Schultz)

May 13, 2021

Frontline Focus Column

Sector New York holds change-of-command ceremony, and 13th District Pacific Northwest rescues three people from boat fire

Petty Officer 2nd Class Noah Colburn, an aviation survival technician stationed at Air Station San Francisco, tends to a simulated individual during cliff rescue training Pacifica, Calif., March 30, 2021. Cliff rescue training is one of many exercise crews use to stay proficient in all mission capabilities. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Taylor Bacon)

May 12, 2021

Chaplain’s Corner: Understanding how your spiritual fitness contributes to your successful military service 

Chaplains column

Research assistant, Kayla Enochs, directs BACH physical therapist Dr. Lee Webb, to raise his leg during a physical therapy session demonstrating exercises performed by Soldiers enrolled in a research study at BACH. Physical therapists at BACH partnered in a research project aimed at finding effective methods to treat service members with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), commonly known as runner’s knee. Their research found that Soldiers who used a neuromuscular electrical stimulation device, like the one Webb is wearing, in addition to an active home exercise program over a 9-week period experienced more improvement than Soldiers who only performed active home exercise. The study may help impact the methods used across the Army to treat PFPS. U.S. Army photo by Maria Yager.

May 12, 2021

Tactics to prevent or help heal knee pain

A Wellness Wednesday discussion all about the knees

Coast Guard Enlisted Person of the Year, Seaman Theodore Kirkbride, spends time surfing and skateboarding with his Little Brother from the Big Brother Big Sister program. He has dedicated more than 100 hours volunteering with the Big Brother Big Sister of Maui program. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

May 11, 2021

Coast Guardsman assigned to Coast Guard Station Maui receives Enlisted Person of the Year award

The Coast Guard named Seaman Theodore Kirkbride as the service's Enlisted Person of the Year.

The 2020 Wanda Allen-Yearout Ombudsman of the Year Awardee, Jennifer Walker, is shown (top right) with her husband, Petty Officer 1st Class Bradley Walker (top left) and their two children: Anderson (bottom left) and Trent (bottom right).

May 7, 2021

Honoring the Coast Guard Ombudsman of the Year

National Military Spouses Day—Congratulations to all of our Ombudsmen volunteers

Montgomery Grace Norton, daughter of Seaman David and Allie Norton, gazes at her surroundings as her father holds her before she is to be dedicated during a ceremony aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Greenbrier in Natchez, Miss., May 25, 2013.

May 6, 2021

Parental Leave Program beta test is renewed through September

Surge Staffing program has provided more than 18,000 days of active duty coverage for new parents.

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