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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
April 8, 2022
The Long Blue Line: “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back”—origin of the old Life-Saving Service motto
The lore behind the motto
April 1, 2022
The Long Blue Line: “The last full measure of devotion”—the life and death of Revenue Cutter Capt. Thomas Dungan
A story about the Coast Guard's predecessor service in the Civil War.
March 18, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Harriet Lane—first lady of the Coast Guard and the U.S.!
First Lady Harriet Lane lives today through the cutter named for her.
March 11, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard women in aviation—blazing a trail for 80 years!
Celebrating Women's History Month: Women in Coast Guard aviation
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
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.
Feb. 4, 2022
The Long Blue Line: 1942—Coast Guard’s history making year 80 years ago!
Remembering events from 1942
Jan. 28, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Lt. j.g. John Currier–Harmon Trophy honoree and the rescue of Scalloper Terry T
The rescue of 10 from the Terry T.
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.