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Coast Guard Cutter Patoka crew loads cement weights on board Coast Guard Cutter Patoka Oct. 24, 2022 at Ensley Engineer Yard near Memphis, Tennessee. The Patoka is responding to low water by assisting with aids to navigation on the Mississippi river. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class James Hague)

Nov. 23, 2022

Coast Guard to the rescue as stretches of the Mississippi run dry

Cuttermen handle unprecedented workload with poise

A young Marvin Perrett in his dress blue uniform during his World War II service in the Coast Guard. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Oct. 14, 2022

The Long Blue Line: The life and times of Marvin Perrett—Portrait of a World War II coxswain and FRC namesake

[Editor’s note: This article was first published in 2005 and has been modified to meet MyCG style. Marvin Perrett passed away in 2007. In recognition of his World War II service, he received numerous ribbons for naval campaigns in the European and Pacific theatres, as well as induction into the French Legion of Honor with rank of Chevalier. Perrett

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jarrett Guerra, Petty Officer 3rd Class Corey Connolly and Petty Officer 2nd Class Jake Flores, members of Coast Guard Maritime Safety & Security Team Houston, pose for a photo in the unit’s boat shed in Houston, Texas, July 14, 2022. While deployed to the Rio Grande on June 2, 2022, Guerra, Connolly and Flores saved two adult females and a 1-year-old boy from drowning in the river. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Corinne Zilnicki)

Aug. 8, 2022

Coast Guard team saves lives at the border

Multiple rescues on the Rio Grande.

Coast Guard Fort Lauderdale 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crewmembers stand in front of a capsized boat at St. Andrews Bay, Florida, Oct. 22, 2018. The boatcrew spotted the capsized boat during a law enforcement patrol through a Hurricane Michael high-impact area. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Brindley.

June 17, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Cleaning up after Florida's most destructive hurricanes

Hurricane season is here, we take a moment to remember clean up efforts from Hurricane Michael in 2018.

The Coast Guard Cutter Decisive is moored at the Coast Guard Yard March 14, 2022. The Decisive spent seven days in dry dock at the Coast Guard Yard prior to getting underway and back to work. Coast Guard photo by Kristen Soper, Coast Guard Yard communications director.

May 19, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter Decisive completes dry dock, back to work, and more

Coast Guard Cutter Decisive completes dry dock, back to work; Coast Guard assists 2 aboard vessels taking on water; Coast Guard rescues 18-year-old from flooded vessel; Coast Guard repatriates 207 people to Haiti; and Coast Guard repatriates 75 people to Cuba.

Capt. Brian M Kostecki, resource management division chief of Coast Guard District 7, Capt. Mark R. Vlaun, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Chief Warrant Officer 3 John P. Chandler, commanding officer of Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral break ground at the groundbreaking ceremony in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 2, 2022. The 21,000 square-foot search and rescue building is projected to be completed by 2024. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Cameron Snell)

May 12, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs crew member from fishing vessel, and more.

Coast Guard medevacs crew member from fishing vessel Coast Guard Station South Padre Island crew rescued a dolphin caught in an illegal fishing net; Coast Guard repatriates 78 people to Haiti; and Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral holds groundbreaking ceremony.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton conducts patrols in Fiji's exclusive economic zone with Fijian law enforcement personnel, February, 2022. The Coast Guard’s mission to combat IUU fishing is essential in protecting maritime governance and a rules-based international order to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton)

March 24, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter Stratton returns to homeport following 97-day South Pacific patrol and more.

Coast Guard Cutter Stratton returns to homeport following 97-day South Pacific patrol; Coast Guard hosts Community Day in Houston; Coast Guard medevacs injured man from fish processor near Dutch Harbor, Alaska; Coast Guard medevacs crew member from tanker vessel off Galveston, Texas; and Coast Guard responds to vessel collision in Pascagoula, Miss.

A 45-foot response boat from Station Key West, Fla., is alongside a rustic vessel approximately 15 miles south of Key West, March 9, 2022. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations flight crew reported the rustic vessel with people aboard to U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West watchstanders. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kathleen Moore’s crew repatriated 74 people to Cuba, March 12, 2022, following four interdictions of undocumented migrants due to safety of life at sea concerns. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

March 17, 2022

Coast Guard repatriates more than 200 undocumented migrants and more

Coast Guard repatriates more than 200 undocumented migrants; Coast Guard rescues 5 from capsized vessel in Port O'Connor, Texas; Coast Guard cutters return home following patrol in Oceania; and Coast Guard Cutter Midgett returns to homeport after 3-month Alaskan Patrol.

Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Juniper and USCGC Joseph Gerczak conducted security patrol operations in Samoa’s exclusive economic zone throughout February 2022, to protect fisheries and other natural resources. The Juniper and Joseph Gerczak crews helped fill the operational presence needed to deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing while Samoa’s Nafanua II patrol boat underwent routine maintenance. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

March 11, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard, partner agencies continue salvage operations for grounded boat on Kehoe Beach, Calif., and more.

Coast Guard, partner agencies continue salvage operations for grounded boat on Kehoe Beach, Calif.; Coast Guard Cutter Diligence returns to homeport after 60-Day Eastern Pacific Ocean patrol; U.S. Coast Guard patrols Exclusive Economic Zone in partnership with Samoa; and Coast Guard medevacs cruise ship passenger near New Orleans.

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.