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March 4, 2022

Message from the Commandant: Celebrate women who provide healing and hope in March

Women's History Month 2022

A veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, Lt. Frank Newcomb served for over 40 years in the U.S. sea services. He was a progressive thinking man and considered one of the finest officers of the Revenue Cutter Service. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

March 4, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Revenue Cutter Hudson and the Battle of Cardenas Bay in the War with Spain

The service’s first minority members honored for heroism in combat in the War with Spain

Female Coast Guard petty officer having a conversation with a potential recruit

March 3, 2022

Coast Guard women can share their story with the Women's Leadership Initiative

(Her)story of the Coast Guard

Coast Guard Cutter Blue Shark transits the waters of the Salish Sea alongside HMCS Saskatoon and HMCS Yellowknife during a joint exercise on Feb. 17, 2022. The exercise was conducted to train and prepare Royal Canadian navy crews for deployments to support United States counter-narcotics operations. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Steve Strohmaier)

March 3, 2022

Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard, Navy host international exercise with Royal Canadian navy, and more.

Coast Guard, Navy host international exercise with Royal Canadian navy; Coast Guard Cutter Reliance returns to homeport following 52-day patrol; Coast Guard discovers illegal halibut catch near Kodiak, Alaska; Coast Guard repatriates 42 Cubans to Cuba; and Coast Guard commissions 46th Sentinel-class cutter.

Master Chief Petty Officer Michael P. Leavitt (ret.) and his wife, Debra, depart a change-of-watch ceremony Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J. After the change-of watch ceremony, in which Leavitt transferred his duties as MCPOCG to Master Chief Petty Officer Steven W. Cantrell, Leavitt retired following 32 years of Coast Guard service. U.S Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cynthia Oldham

Feb. 25, 2022

Leaving active duty? Match with a retiree mentor to support the transition

Mentoring Program expands participation to retiree community

The Coast Guard Cutter James' crew offloaded approximately 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana, worth approximately $1.06 billion, Feb. 17, 2022, in Port Everglades, Fla. The ship’s crew set new records during their 90-day patrol for the largest single cocaine interdiction at 10,915 pounds, worth $206.4 million, and the largest single marijuana interdiction at 3,962 pounds, worth $3.59 million, which is the greatest amount of contraband interdicted during an Eastern Pacific patrol. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jose Hernandez).

Feb. 24, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter James offloads more than $1.06 billion in illegal narcotics, and more.

Coast Guard Cutter James offloads more than $1.06 billion in illegal narcotics; Station San Juan crew, research vessel Neil Armstrong assist 2 US boaters in distress in Atlantic Ocean waters north of Puerto Rico; Coast Guard repatriates 13; Coast Guard medevacs mariner near Mobile Bay, Ala.

Gen. Paul Nakasone, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, returns a salute render from Coast Guard Rear Adm. Bill Kelly, Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, Jan. 20, 2022. Nakasone visited the Coast Guard Academy to discuss the vitality of cyber security infrastructure in an increasingly technological world with both senior leadership and cadets. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

Feb. 23, 2022

The CGA and the new operational domain

The Coast Guard Academy will soon commission its first Cyber Systems graduates later this academic year.

Ice climbers train at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, near Munising, Mich., in preparation for Michigan Ice Fest the week of Feb. 9-13, 2022. Coast Guard members from Air Station Traverse City and Station Marquette train closely with National Park Service rangers and volunteers to hone their skills. Photo courtesy Chief Ranger Joseph Hughes, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Feb. 23, 2022

Rescuers train together, preparing for an emergency in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula

Training and teamwork help Coast Guard and other rescuers work better — together

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Megan Dean, Cmdr. Clay Cromer, and high school student cadet leaders conduct the ceremony for the establishment of the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) unit at Pinellas Park High School in Largo, Florida, Nov. 12, 2021. The unit is the fourth and largest Coast Guard JROTC established, and the second unit established under recently-expanded federal law. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Hudson.

Feb. 22, 2022

Coast Guard will launch 2 new Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in Fall 2022

Increase in JROTC program growth is viewed as an investment in the future of nation and service

Chief Louis Etheridge near the end of his honorable and productive Coast Guard career. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 18, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Louis Etheridge—Gun captain and African-American war hero

Read about the courageous actions resulting in the Coast Guard’s first military medal bestowed on an African American Coast Guardsman for combat heroism.