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A Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew (left) stands with Brian Kamimoto (right), assistant airport superintendent Maui District at the Maui Airport Fire Station while picking up response supplies for delivery from Maui to Lanai, March 28, 2020. The pilots transported COVID-19 supplies, including temperature reading thermometers and hand sanitation equipment, from the Maui Airport Fire Station to personnel at Lanai Airport for use by airport staff. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Berry Redmayne/Released)

July 1, 2021

BZ: USCG Auxiliary turns 82, and more

Bravo Zulu!

A Coast Guard Base Kodiak Rockmore-King Clinic staff member administers a COVID-19 vaccination to a service member, in Kodiak, Alaska, on March 16, 2021. Coast Guard 17th District personnel are working diligently to vaccinate servicemembers to help combat the spread of COVID-19. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ali Blackburn.

June 30, 2021

COVID Vaccine: Almost to 70%

Only 911 more to reach our goal!

eckplate Leader of the Week is Senior Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Thomas, a marine science technician, from U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Francisco’s Incident Management Division!

June 30, 2021

Leader of the Week: Senior Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Thomas

Our Deckplate Leader of the Week is Senior Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Thomas

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June 29, 2021

How you can prepare for the new travel system

As the service prepares for a new travel system, there are a couple of things you can do to help

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)

June 29, 2021

The future is here

The Class of 2025 arrives at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy 

Upper Government Hill Housing in Kodiak, AK

June 28, 2021

COVID news to know: Information on the Delta variant

COVID-19 vaccines prove affective against this dangerous strain

Cmdr. Morgan Holden with her husband Lt. Dave Holden pose with family during their vacation at Base Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

June 27, 2021

Postcards from Elizabeth City 

MWR resources across the country offer affordable lodging in unique and appealing locations

Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico moored in preparation for another deployment to fix aids-to-navigation along the Lower Mississippi River. (Coast Guard)

June 25, 2021

The Long Blue Line: In to the eye of chaos--River Tender Pamlico in Hurricane Katrina, Part II. The Clean Up

Part 2 of Pamlico's response to Hurricane Katrina

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June 24, 2021

Event: Sea-Air-Space Expo (Aug. 1-4)

SAS is the largest maritime exposition in the U.S., and is free for USCG members and civilians

Coast Guardsmen participated in the second annual five-day flood response training course at the state-of-the-art Muscatauck Urban Training Center in May 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Ames Holbrook)

June 24, 2021

State-of-the-art training center primes students for response during hurricane season

Class of 2021 graduates from the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center

NOTICE: A lapse in appropriations has occurred. Military members will continue to report for duty as per normal operations. Excepted and exempt civilian employees will report to work as usual. Managers and supervisors of non-exempt/non-excepted civilian employees must begin conducting orderly shutdown on the next scheduled workday. FAQs and resources regarding the lapse operations will continue to be posted here and the internal lapse site.