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You now have until Dec. 1, 2023 to submit your application.

Sept. 15, 2023

Coast Guard Foundation extends season for Spouse Grants

You now have until Dec. 1, 2023 to submit your application.

Lt. Cmdr. Allice Gholson and Chief Culinary Specialist Lisa Densmore are the 2023 Women’s Leadership Award winners.

Sept. 11, 2023

Congratulations to the Women’s Leadership Award Winners

Congratulations to the two outstanding leaders in their field and in the Coast Guard’s diversity and inclusion efforts!

A change in fabric manufacturing processes means many Coast Guard members may experience difficulties finding their operational dress uniform (ODU) size at the CG Exchange (CGX).

Sept. 1, 2023

Can’t find your ODU size at the CG Exchange? Here’s what’s going on.

A change in fabric manufacturing processes means many Coast Guard members may experience difficulties finding their operational dress uniform (ODU) size at the CG Exchange (CGX).

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas presents the 2023 Secretary’s Awards to DHS employees at the FEMA Resource Center in Sacramento, California. This year DHS is recognizing 1,341 recipients of the 2023 Secretary’s Awards. (Photo by Tia Dufour/Released)

Sept. 1, 2023

U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognizes employees at award ceremony hosted by Coast Guard Base Boston

The DHS Secretary’s Awards are an annual program that recognizes the extraordinary individual and collective achievements of the workforce.

Auxiliarist Chester “Chet” L. Williams (center) at Coast Guard Air Station Sitka on his tour of Southeast Alaska, with the mission of growing the Auxiliary and help further support active-duty personnel. U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Schleck

Aug. 18, 2023

Congratulations to the Coast Guard’s 2022 Auxiliarist of the Year

Auxiliarist Chester Williams earned this honor through his leadership and recruiting contributions

United States Coast Guard Cutter Katmai Bay ensures participant safety during the 2023 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. (U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary photo courtesy of Kurt Lentsch)

Aug. 10, 2023

An icebreaker’s summer break on the Great Lakes

Cutter crew, auxiliarists and Academy cadets enhance skillsets and camaraderie during fair weather months.

The Coast Guard Foundation will award eight $1,000 scholarships to enlisted Coast Guard reservists or their eligible dependents.

Aug. 7, 2023

Coast Guard Foundation announces scholarships for reservists, dependents

Reservists: Apply by Aug. 15 for your chance to earn a scholarship for you or your family.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Joseph Mayer, a culinary specialist temporarily assigned to USCGC Bear (WMEC 901), reads his citation after being awarded a letter of commendation ribbon at quarters, Atlantic Ocean, Sep. 13, 2022. Mayer was being rewarded for his continued hard work demonstrated over the course of his time aboard the Bear. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

Aug. 2, 2023

Coast Guard expands limited award issuing authority to all unit commanders

All commanding officers and officers-in-charge can now award Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Ribbons and Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation awards.

A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk flies overhead while personnel assigned to the Gulf, Atlantic, and Pacific Strike teams scan for unaccounted people in Fort Myers Beach, Florida on Sept. 29, 2022. Coast Guard National Strike Force teams mobilized to areas affected by Hurricane Ian to perform urban search and rescue. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Gabriel Wisdom)

Aug. 1, 2023

Announcing the annual Coast Guard Emergency Manager and Unit of the Year awards

New awards will recognize emergency managers “embracing the challenges of a dynamic crisis landscape."

Major Charity Adams inspects arrivals to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, comprised of African American women serving during World War II. (National Archives (531249))

July 24, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Part II — “Available and needed workers have been barred from employment” — the segregated military and civil service environments

The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (USRCS), predecessor to the United States Coast Guard (USCG), utilized both free and enslaved Black people, and restricted their roles to cooks, stewards and seamen.