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Nov. 2, 2021

Military OneSource: Resources at your fingertips

Find what you need for PCS moves, to dealing with stress.

The last known photograph of the Bear taken from a Coast Guard aircraft before it sank in March 1963. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 2, 2021

Captain Healy’s Cutter Bear—once lost, now found!

As with so many forgotten Coast Guard stories of heroism, bravery, and courage, the story of Michael

STS-85 Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam (020-22), Jan Davis (025), Steve Robinson (029-31), Payload Specialist Bjarni Tryggvason (026-28) and Pilot Kent Rominger (032-34) in sleep restraints mounted on the middeck bulkheads. View of both Davis and Robinson in their respective sleep restraints (023-24). View STS085-327-026 was selected by the crew for use in the postflight presentation.

Oct. 29, 2021

The “weight” of poor sleep

How sleep plays a role in your daily habits and mood

After its service as a VOA floating transmitter, Courier became Coast Guard reserve training ship, stationed at Training Center Yorktown. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Oct. 29, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Cold War Cutter Courier—“Valiant fighter in the cause of freedom”

I am speaking to you today from a ship. It is a special kind of ship, and it will perform a very

Oct. 29, 2021

Coast Guard child care fee assistance is transitioning to Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood (MCCYN) fee assistance

Beginning Dec. 6, MCCYN available for active duty families.

Oct. 28, 2021

Expanded tattoo policy for military members

Policy change affects behind-the-ear and finger tattoos

Narcotics, interdicted by the crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare, lie next to the ship at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach in Miami Beach, Florida, Oct. 15, 2021. The vessel's crew conducted an eight-week counter-narcotics patrol in the Eastern Pacific in support of Joint Interagency Task Force South and the Coast Guard 11th District. (U.S Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest)

Oct. 28, 2021

Frontline Focus: The first Coast Guard Reserve Aviators have ‘landed’ at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile and more.

Frontline Focus: The first Coast Guard reserve aviators have ‘landed’ at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center, Mobile; Coast Guard Cutter Legare returns home from 61-day counter-narcotic deployment; Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel, 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska; and Coast Guard holds Arctic discussions in Boston aboard Coast Guard Cutter Healy.

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Emlen Tunnell, Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's fourth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, into service at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia on Oct. 15, 2021. Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, will preside over the ceremony. Yvonne Gilmore Jordan, the eldest first cousin to Tunnell, is the ship's sponsor. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Clinton Muir)

Oct. 28, 2021

BZ: U.S. Coast Guard commissions Sentinel-class cutter named for enlisted hero, NFL great Emlen Tunnell, and more.

BZ: U.S. Coast Guard commissions Sentinel-class cutter named for enlisted hero, NFL great Emlen Tunnell; and Deadline approaching to participate in the Coast Guard Foundation’s $100,000 Matching Gift Challenge; Special sneak peak of the National Coast Guard Museum.