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Vice Adm. Scott Buschman, deputy of Coast Guard operations, speaks at the annual Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and Innovation Idea Submission Review (ISR), Oct. 21, 2020. The ISR is a collaborative meeting that involves leadership from the deck plate to the flag suite, where the ideas submitted are ranked, and the potential list of RDT&E Projects for the next fiscal year is built. (U.S. Coast Guard photo.)

July 14, 2021

Operation Innovation: Get to know your District Innovation Action Officer 

New officers will serve as connectors between the field and the Innovation Council  

Vice Adm. Steven Poulin, Coast Guard Atlantic Area Commander, interacts with Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown’s current technological training equipment, March 23, 2021. Poulin studied the equipment inside one of the training center’s server rooms during a recent tour. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Santiago Gomez.

July 13, 2021

State of Capabilities Report is available now  

See how the Coast Guard ensures capabilities meet mission needs 

CAPE MAY, N.J. - Senior Chief Petty Officer Frederick Clay, a Recruiter School instructor, teaches virtual modules to prospective recruiters, June 24, 2021, at Training Center Cape May. Recruiter School has been held virtually since early 2020 due to COVID. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo

July 13, 2021

Recruiter school goes virtual

Like so many things these days, learning to be a recruiter can be done virtually

A crew member from one of Sector Houston-Galveston's underlying units lays a rose to commemorate a fallen crew member of the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn during the 41st-anniversary memorial service Jan. 28, 2021, at Base Galveston in Galveston, Texas. The Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn sank after colliding with the tanker vessel Capricorn in Tampa, Florida, near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Jan. 28, 1980 and lost 23 of its 50 crew members in the Coast Guard’s worst peacetime disaster. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Dickinson)

July 12, 2021

Auxiliary chaplains prove to be essential to the Coast Guard 

Learn how the Auxiliary Chaplain Support Program can benefit you 

An aerial shot of the tidal flats and marshlands in southern Louisiana, taken June 25, provides an idea of just how difficult oil clean-up operations would be in such a shallow and densely vegetated environ. Coast Guard members and civilian boat crews are working to boom off inlets to these areas in order to prevent contamination of one of the Gulf Coast's most sensitive ecosystems.

July 12, 2021

The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council has announced $302 million in funding to address ecosystem needs across throughout the Gulf of Mexico  

The funding decision supports restoration activities spanning the Gulf Coast states impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy welcomes two hundred and ninety-one young women and men to the Class of 2025 for Day One, June 28, 2021. Day One marks the start of Swab Summer, an intensive seven-week program that prepares students for military and Academy life. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Cmdr. Krystyn Pecora)

July 12, 2021

Swab summer: How it started

Swabs begin their journey at CGA

Picture of Capt. Jim O’Keefe with author Meghan Watson after her graduation from boot camp at Training Center Cape May. (Photograph courtesy of James O’Keefe)

July 9, 2021

The Long Blue Line: “Go to New Orleans and do whatever you can to help!”--Coast Guard aviator remembers Hurricane Katrina

Read about Cmdr. Jim O'Keefe's experience during Hurricane Katrina

Petty Officer 2nd Class Enrique Lemos (surfman #559) operates a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat near the entrance to the Umpqua River in Winchester Bay, Oregon, Dec. 26, 2019. Lemos was one of 10 Coast Guardsmen to certify as a surfman during the winter and spring. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Petty Officer 2nd Class Enrique Lemos)

July 8, 2021

47s in for the long haul 

Revitalization of 107 motor lifeboats greenlighted to improve safety and ease of use 

U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. William Pickrum, retired, shown in 2019 during his 16-year tenure as Kent County, Maryland Commissioner. Upon leaving the Coast Guard after 22 years, Pickrum went on to hold numerous distinguished posts. Photo courtesy by My Eastern Shore Maryland.

July 8, 2021

Remembering Cmdr. William Pickrum 

A notable CGA alumni, pilot, and public servant  

Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley crew members conduct hoist training with an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew while underway in the Bering Sea June 15, 2021. Helicopter crews deploy aboard Coast Guard cutters to extend their search-and-rescue and law-enforcement reach and shorten response times during maritime emergencies. U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley.

July 8, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returns home

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returns to Kodiak from Bering Sea patrol, and more

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