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A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater aircrew and a Royal Bahamas Defence Force boat crews intercepted 88 people aboard a Haitian sail freighter near Great Inagua, Bahamas Jan. 23, 2022. The people were intercepted during a suspected migrant venture approximately 23 miles west of Great Inagua, Bahamas. (Royal Bahamas Defence Force photo)

Jan. 27, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard, partner agency intercept 88 Haitians near Great Inagua, Bahamas, and more.

Coast Guard, partner agency intercept 88 Haitians near Great Inagua, Bahamas; Coast Guard rescues six from distressed sailing vessel near Mona Island, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard repatriates 90 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic following three illegal voyage interdictions near Puerto Rico; Coast Guard rescues kayaker near Slidell, Louisiana; and Navy and Coast Guard stop boat in Caribbean with suspected cocaine shipment worth $22 million.

Jan. 26, 2022

How TRICARE Pharmacy Network Changes Will Affect TRICARE For Life

Changes to retail pharmacy options

Vintage black and white image of Lightship 70 marking the entrance to San Francisco Bay. (U.S. Lighthouse Service)

Jan. 21, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard pioneers the marine radio over 100 years ago!

Learn how radio became a basic part of a maritime communications.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Christian Ortega Santiago, a hospital corpsman, and another member of the crew of the Sentinel-class Coast Guard Cutter Glen Harris treat a migrant for symptoms of hypothermia following his rescue from the water in the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 5, 2021. The Glen Harris, with the Coast Guard Cutter Emlen Tunnell and the Coast Gaurd Cutter Thetis are conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of responsibility while the Sentinel-class cutters transit from the U.S. to their new homeport of Manama, Bahrain. U.S. Sixth Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied and interagency partners, to advance U.S. national interests, security, and stability in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ade Gills)

Jan. 20, 2022

Frontline Focus: U.S., Spain and Morocco collaborate to conduct rescue at sea in Atlantic Ocean, and more.

U.S., Spain, Morocco rescue 103 migrants at sea; Coast Guard Cutter Stone returns to homeport after 61-day patrol; Coast Guard rescues six hunters from Cape Cod marsh, Mass.; Coast Guard rescues 2 jet skiers near Atkinson Island, Texas; and Coast Guard partners with SailPlan to monitor marine infrastructure, increasing port efficiency and helping achieve climate goal.

Tom Cowan, a retired Coast Guard master chief petty officer, finally got around to taking the hike he talked about doing for years.

Jan. 17, 2022

The long walk

A retired Coast Guard master chief petty officer, finally got around to taking the hike he talked about doing for years.

. Photo of Menhaden fishing vessels about to be converted to naval vessels for wartime service. (Naval History and Heritage Command)

Jan. 14, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “Men against the Sea”—anatomy of a Coast Guard cutter lost at sea

[This essay is adapted from the non-fiction book chapter “Men against the Sea,” Sea, Surf and Hell: The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), 72-78.]The Coast Guard patrol craft Wilcox was lost off the Mid-Atlantic coast Sept. 30, 1943. The following account is taken from the statement made by its commanding officer, Lt.