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Graphic celebrating 231 years of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Aug. 4, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Day edition

How Alexander Hamilton's cutters are moving into the future, 231 years after we became "America's "first fleet"

Health care professionals from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Health Services and U.S. Coast Guard Academy Clinic performed electrocardiograms on the Swabs in the Class of 2025, July 5, 2021. The new ECG screening program aims to mitigate the chances of students experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo by David Kenny)

Aug. 3, 2021

Perfect cadence: The U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s new electrocardiogram initiative

CGA institutes new ECG program to monitor cadet health

Serving aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt.j.g. Rebecca Edmonds holds a sample of plankton that is submerged in a preservation fluid

Aug. 2, 2021

Sardines and science: How an Lt. j.g. talked her way onto a NOAA ship's crew

Along the way, Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds earned the qualification for underway officer of the deck - and the trust of a very skeptical chief scientist.

In a twist on the traditional groundbreaking ceremony, U.S. Coast Guard leaders signed a ceremonial steel beam which will be used in the construction of the future Maritime Center of Excellence (MCOE) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, July 29, 2021. The future MCOE will enhance the waterfront facilities at the Academy by offering interactive and high-tech classrooms for a variety of educational and leadership development courses. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Thieme)

July 30, 2021

The future Maritime Center of Excellence will transform CGA's waterfront

The Coast Guard Academy breaks ground on a new, modern building

High resolution photograph of Danmark in 1945 under a full spread of canvas. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 30, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Danmark—the friend-ship between Denmark and the Coast Guard

How did a ship without a nation become a training platform for the U.S. Coast Guard?

For over 20 years, the culinary specialist (CS) “A” school staff and students at Training Center (TRACEN) Petaluma, have volunteered their time to help feed the shelter-less and immobile elderly within the Petaluma area. Assisting the Committee on the Shelter-less (COTS), twice per month these CSs have dedicated their Sunday mornings to preparing meals for COTS clients, sorting food donations, boxing up food kits for delivery and even taking care of the yards of the multiple COTS houses used by their clients.

July 29, 2021

Commitment to Service: TRACEN Petaluma CS A-school shelter-less outreach

Culinary specialists give back to the community

Retired Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, Vince W. Patton III, addresses members and employees of Coast Guard Training Center Cape May during a leadership brunch held Thursday, May 28, 2015. Patton spoke about the importance of mentorship and congratulated the training center on establishing a mentorship program that helps junior members assigned to the training center. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Chief Warrant Officer John Edwards)

July 29, 2021

BZ: Mentoring Project’s Core Team receives Meritorious Team Citation, and more

BZ: Mentoring Project’s Core Team receives Meritorious Team Citation, Bravo Zulu to the winners of the Congressman James Sener Award for Excellence in Marine Investigations, Winner of the 2020 Cmdr. Ray Evans Outstanding Coxswain Trophy selected, Solicitation: Members for the Boat Forces Advisory Council, USCG voted the best place to work in the Department of Homeland Security, Be sure to check out the upcoming Mentoring Program Road Show

The US Coast Guard Cutter Maple crew participate in a towing exercise with the HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571), a Royal Danish Navy Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel and the FNS Fulmar (P740), a French Navy patrol vessel, near Greenland, June 21, 2021. Deployed forces demonstrated U.S. Coast Guard capabilities to build partner capacity and expertise in search and rescue, incident management, and marine environmental response. These efforts solidify key strategic relationships while achieving mutual Danish, Greenlandic, and U.S. goals in the North American Atlantic Arctic and Northwest Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jose Hernandez)

July 29, 2021

Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel in Newport, Ore., and more

Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel in Newport, Ore., The U.S. Coast Guard participated in Exercise Argus, strengthened Arctic partnerships, The Coast Guard First District responds to report of dielectric fluid leak in New Rochelle, N.Y., Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew rescued three individuals from Chilkat River in Kodiak, Alaska, Coast Guard searching for two overdue mariners off Santa Rita, Guam

LT Nikki Barnes will compete in the Women's 470 Sailing during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

July 27, 2021

Olympic sailing: Time to cheer for our very own LT Nikki Barnes!

Racing kicks off (very early) Wednesday morning. Join Team Coast Guard for a virtual watch party!

Chief Petty Officer Mary Zepeda is administered the first coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination at Base Alameda medical clinic in Alameda, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020. Coast Guard efforts to vaccinate its workforce, in collaboration with DoD, will be complementary to a parallel effort by states, territories, and localities, as vaccine supply allows. U.S. Coast Guard photos by Chief Petty Officer Matt Masaschi.

July 27, 2021

Defeat COVID-19’s surging counterattack: Vaccination is our best weapon

Vaccination is our best defense against COVID-19