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Nov. 2, 2021

EVENT: Intersectionality: A Women's Leadership Initiative panel discussion

Join the virtual discussion Nov. 8 hosted by the USCG affinity group

Navy Talent Acquisition Group Mid America Future Sailor James Cockrill plays Valorant against the U.S. Navy esports team, Goats & Glory, at an esports event during Kansas City Navy Week, June 29, 2021. Kansas City Navy Week is the first in-person Navy Week since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing Sailors from different Navy units across the U.S. to conduct focused outreach with members of the community. Navy Weeks consist of a series of events coordinated by the Navy Office of Community Outreach designed to give Americans an opportunity to learn about the Navy, its people and its importance to national security and prosperity. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chris Williamson)

Nov. 2, 2021

DEADLINE: Represent the Coast Guard in the upcoming Call of Duty tournament

United States and British Armed forces team up with elite Call of Duty streamers in December competition

A Coast Guard health services technician draws a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from a vial at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., Jan. 8, 2021. Our goal is to limit, to the greatest extent possible, any outside factor that would jeopardize the health and safety of our people and ultimately affect our missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Shannon Kearney)

Nov. 2, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine: Boosters available for Coast Guard workforce

Here’s what you need to know about booster shots

Nov. 2, 2021

Military OneSource: Resources at your fingertips

Find what you need for PCS moves, to dealing with stress.

The last known photograph of the Bear taken from a Coast Guard aircraft before it sank in March 1963. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 2, 2021

Captain Healy’s Cutter Bear—once lost, now found!

As with so many forgotten Coast Guard stories of heroism, bravery, and courage, the story of Michael Augustine Healy and his trusty cutter Bear is unknown to most Americans. Healy was born in 1839 on a plantation in Georgia to a plantation owner and a slave. His father sent Healy north with his siblings so they would escape enslavement in the South

STS-85 Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam (020-22), Jan Davis (025), Steve Robinson (029-31), Payload Specialist Bjarni Tryggvason (026-28) and Pilot Kent Rominger (032-34) in sleep restraints mounted on the middeck bulkheads. View of both Davis and Robinson in their respective sleep restraints (023-24). View STS085-327-026 was selected by the crew for use in the postflight presentation.

Oct. 29, 2021

The “weight” of poor sleep

How sleep plays a role in your daily habits and mood

After its service as a VOA floating transmitter, Courier became Coast Guard reserve training ship, stationed at Training Center Yorktown. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Oct. 29, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Cold War Cutter Courier—“Valiant fighter in the cause of freedom”

I am speaking to you today from a ship. It is a special kind of ship, and it will perform a very special mission. This vessel will not be armed with guns, or with any instruments of destruction. But it will be a valiant fighter in the cause of freedom. It will carry a precious cargo--and that cargo is truth. ~ President Harry S Truman, U.S. Coast

Oct. 29, 2021

Coast Guard child care fee assistance is transitioning to Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood (MCCYN) fee assistance

Beginning Dec. 6, MCCYN available for active duty families.

Oct. 28, 2021

Expanded tattoo policy for military members

Policy change affects behind-the-ear and finger tattoos

Narcotics, interdicted by the crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare, lie next to the ship at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Florida, Oct. 15, 2021. The vessel's crew conducted an eight-week counter-narcotics patrol in the Eastern Pacific in support of Joint Interagency Task Force South and the Coast Guard 11th District. (U.S Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest)

Oct. 28, 2021

Frontline Focus: The first Coast Guard Reserve Aviators have ‘landed’ at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile and more.

Frontline Focus: The first Coast Guard reserve aviators have ‘landed’ at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center, Mobile; Coast Guard Cutter Legare returns home from 61-day counter-narcotic deployment; Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel, 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska; and Coast Guard holds Arctic discussions in Boston aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy.