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Official shield for Coast Guard Base Charleston. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Charleston—over 230 years of Coast Guard service and growth in South Carolina!

The City of Charleston, S.C., has been a Coast Guard base of operations for over 230 years and its

Nov. 24, 2021

TRICARE open season ends Dec. 13

TRICARE open season is the annual period when you can enroll in or change your health care coverage for the next year. In 2021, TRICARE open season begins Nov. 8 and ends Dec. 13. Any enrollment changes you make will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022. Open season applies to anyone enrolled in or eligible for a TRICARE Prime option or TRICARE Select.

Training Center Petaluma (TRACEN) Petaluma Facilities Engineers oversee base seeding operation by local farmers Courtesy: Lt. Sarah Kukich)

Nov. 23, 2021

Training Center Petaluma grows organically

Training Center Petaluma has over 300 acres of the training center property dedicated to organic farming

Nov. 22, 2021

Here’s how to access your military records as the Coast Guard transitions to new record management system

The Coast Guard is currently transitioning the Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) previously

Posed official photograph of the Coast Guard commandant, Rear Adm. Frederick Billard (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 19, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Catching the rumrunners—Coast Guard adopts new technology during Prohibition

[Prohibition] was a hard unremitting war with few of the rewards normally accompanying performance

The Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) sits at anchor in Taylor Bay, Alaska, Feb. 10, 2020, ahead of their scheduled logistics stop in Juneau, Alaska, near the end of their months-long Arctic deployment. In addition to Polar Star's strategic national security objectives, the nation's sole heavy icebreaker sailed north with scientists and researchers aboard to better understand how to operate year-round in Arctic waters. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Cindy Oldham.

Nov. 18, 2021

SWE point increase instituted for cutter crews 

Enlisted personnel will receive exam credits for sea duty

An Airman holds an electronic cigarette at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, Aug. 13, 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the more than 2,000 cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury that have occurred across the country. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Erica Crossen)

Nov. 18, 2021

Quit smoking beginning with the “Great American Smokeout”

The American Cancer Society is encouraging people to quit smoking on this one day

Chief Petty Officer Brian Sorensen and his children, Alexis and Blake, participate in the 12th annual Coast Guard Flags Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery Nov. 6, 2010. Members of FAA place flags at the graves of fallen Coast Guardsmen as part of the event. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley.

Nov. 18, 2021

BZ: Putting training to the test, 2021 recipients of the Captain Frank A. Erickson and Commander Elmer F. Stone Aviation Awards, Coast Guard honors fallen, Apply for grants

Bravo Zulu to A-school students at TRACEN Yorktown! Boatswain’s mate A-school students and

Gunner’s mates aboard Coast Guard Cutter Spencer shoot messenger lines to a disabled fishing vessel 100 miles off the coast of New York to bring the vessel in tow. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Katharine Ingham)

Nov. 18, 2021

Frontline Focus: Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returns home after a 33-day patrol and more.

Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returns home after a 33-day patrol; 17 mariners rescued in two days highlights importance of preparation, partnerships; America's only heavy icebreaker departs Seattle homeport; bound for Antarctica; and Coast Guard, partner agencies investigating cause of Southern California pipeline fracture.