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Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Lindsey Peters conducts duties as a health services technician at the Coast Guard Baltimore Clinic in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 8, 2013.

The health services technician (HS) provides necessary routine as well as emergency healthcare services and is assigned to a large Coast Guard clinic, small sickbay ashore, or on cutters. Services could include direct medical care for personnel and families; assisting medical and dental officers; performing diagnostic testing, x-rays, and clinical lab tests; prescribing medications; administering immunizations; performing minor surgical procedures, and much more. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Annie R. B. Elis.

Sept. 23, 2022

New training opportunity for health services specialists

HSs now have an opportunity to attend Behavioral Health Technician C-School

May 18, 2022

2 leadership podcasts you need right now

Plus seven books and a weekly newsletter that can make you a better leader

Three Coast Guard employees working in cubicle space

April 18, 2022

GS-13 civilians: Grow your leadership skills with SLTC

Dedicated time to focus on growth as a civilian leader in the Coast Guard

A map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing the State of Alaska and the epicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. (NOAA)

April 15, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “The land turned to liquid”—Coast Guard operations in the Great Alaska Earthquake

The land turned to liquid. A long slice of the seaward edge of the plain…a section nearly a mile long and as much as six hundred feet wide-compacted, slumped, and then slid into the bay… men tumbled into the water, grasping for anything – timbers, boxes, debris-to stay afloat. One clung to the side of the fissure before he too, fell in. In the

Emblem for the U.S. Coast Guard Personnel Service Center

Feb. 7, 2022

ALCGENL 010/22: Nov. 2021 Servicewide Exam revised cutoffs

pPersonnel who compete for advancement must be prepared to be reassigned to fill authorized positions at the next higher paygrade.

Feb. 2, 2022

ALCGPSC 017/22: Assignment Year 2022 Commander Assignment Panel Results

Commander assignment slate for 2022

Jan. 28, 2022

ALCGOFF 006/22: PY22 January Reserve Officer Extension Process

Starting Feb. 15, PSC-OPM will consider all extension requests for Reserve Officers serving initial accession Extended Active Duty (EAD) agreements expiring between May 1, 2022 and Oct. 31, 2022.

Jan. 7, 2022

PY22 ADPL Lieutenant Selection Board Results

Congratulations to all recommended for promotion!

Coast Guard service member looks out the window of a ship at the Pacific ocean

Jan. 7, 2022

We're so glad 2021 is done, read these 2022 Watch Logs for fun

New Year's Day watch log entry poems from around the Coast Guard

Petty Officer First Class Joseph DeVito received the 2021 Hopley Yeaton Cutter Superior Cutterman Award (enlisted category). Among many other distinctions, DeVito qualified as an underway officer of the deck. Coast Guard photo.

Jan. 6, 2022

Hopley Yeaton Award winners; 2021 Coast Guard Engineer of the Year; 2020 Area Maritime Security Committee of the Year Award; Niagara Falls recovery

Hopley Yeaton Award winners named. The Douglas Munro Chapter of the Surface Navy Association (SNA) announced the recipients of the 2021 Hopley Yeaton Cutter Excellence and Superior Cutterman Awards. The Hopley Yeaton awards, which honor the Coast Guard’s legendary sea-going forbearer, Capt. Hopley Yeaton, are given annually to celebrate and