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Feb. 27, 2025
How you can help preserve Coast Guard history
An original flag's journey back to the service shows how your artifacts can make a difference.
Sept. 1, 2023
The Long Blue Line: The infamous James Alderman and redemption of CG-249 100 years ago
The next morning, they would return to Fort Lauderdale and resume the grind of chasing rum runners.
Aug. 23, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, part three
The shipwreck that prompted the creation of the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Program is recalled by the pilot of one of the helicopters sent to rescue survivors on that fateful night.
Aug. 21, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, Part Two
Aug. 18, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, Part One
Aug. 7, 2023
The Long Blue Line: The Ironwood—wartime ATON in Vietnam
"Back then it was less expensive to repair a ship in Japan than in a U.S. shipyard."