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Ken Stetz’s award-winning oil painting, “Absorbing the roll” (Image courtesy of the Coast Guard Art Program).

July 23, 2024

Coast Guard Art Program announces George Gray Award winner

Ken Stetz is honored for artistic excellence.

Capt. Brian Maggi, Head of Civil Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy, holds up a drone during a training course at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn, Feb 21, 2023. The Coast Guard Short Ranged Unmanned Aerial Systems (SR-UAS) program is designed to create designated pilots and integrate drone capabilities into various missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Thieme)

July 23, 2024

Short-Range Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Challenging the status quo

How to boost your programs' efficiency, safety, and reduce costs for various missions.

A Coast Guard Port Security Unit 308 transportable port security boat is loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-5M Galaxy at Stennis International Airport. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Anderson)

July 22, 2024

Empowering YOU through your mobilization cycle

Reservists: These insider's tips will make your next activation easier for you and your family.

U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to the USCGC Heriberto Hernandez (WPC 1114), a Fast Response Cutter homeported in San Juan, Puerto Rico, delivers food near the port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Sept. 27, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse)

July 19, 2024

Lessons learned from 2017’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Eyewitness accounts to the catastrophic Hurricane Maria, revealing the commitment to service, devotion to duty and willingness to make sacrifices that characterize the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard community.

The VA offers support to sexual assault survivors.

July 18, 2024

Coast Guard launches site on Strengthening Service Culture Initiative

The new website consolidates information to be your touchpoint for service-wide SSC efforts.

Carl Shipley, ROV & UPSEC program manager, prepares an unmanned submersible vehicle to search for victims of the March 26, 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coast Guard integrated unmanned ROVs with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to search for victims following the accident. (Photo by David Adams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

July 17, 2024

Coast Guard integrates aerial, underwater drones to locate victims of Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

Technology provides real-time map both above and below sea.

Coast Guard Reserve logo

July 17, 2024

Enlisted reservists — education scholarships are now available for you or your dependents

The Coast Guard Foundation has funding for eight eligible members or dependents.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy welcomes 300 young women and men to the Class of 2027 for Day One, June 26, 2023. Day One marks the start of Swab Summer, an intensive seven-week program that prepares students for military and Academy life. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Thieme)

July 16, 2024

Coast Guard updates Swab Summer for incoming Academy cadets

Service adds new oversight, alters training structure

Coast Guard Cutter Stone conducts flight operations in the Caribbean Sea in early July. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 15, 2024

Best Places to Work: CGC Stone

Always Proud, Always Professional, and Always Prepared: the Stone crew take great pride in working hard.

U.S. Revenue Cutter Wolcott. The Wolcott was a sail-steamer homeported at Port Townsend, Washington, Territory. Although her crew discovered no drugs aboard the George E Starr, a landing party from the cutter made the earliest yet-known drug seizure by predecessor agencies of the Coast Guard, finding nearly 3,012 pounds of opium hidden in barrels at a fishery in Alaska on January 14, 1886. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 12, 2024

The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr

The story of the service’s first drug interdiction case (1891) and how it was misrepresented in the history books.