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Child Abuse Prevention Month

April 22, 2022

Let’s go all in to end abuse, increase awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. This observance reminds us that our first duty is to our children—their safety, well-being and resilience is a Coast Guard priority.

Lt. Buddy Ebsen on stage hosting the 7th War Loan bond drive in Seattle. (U.S. Coast Guard)

April 22, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Buddy Ebsen—Hollywood actor and World War II patrol frigate officer

Hollywood actor, Coast Guard WWII hero

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 21, 2022

FSMS: Progress report from the Incident Command

The new FSMS Homepage: Navigating to Full Operational Capability has been launched!  This

Retirement Ceremony Portrait

April 21, 2022

Frontline Focus: Container ship grounded in Chesapeake Bay refloated after 35 days, and more

Container ship grounded in Chesapeake Bay refloated following 35-day salvage operation, Maryland; Coast Guard to host groundbreaking ceremony at Base Boston for Fast Response Cutter pier construction, Massachusetts; Coast Guard medevacs swimmer near Dauphin Island, Alabama; Coast Guard Sector New Orleans holds change-of-command ceremony, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Coast Guard terminates three illegal charter vessels in San Diego Bay, California.

two people walking under a suspended boat hull, facing away from the camera

April 19, 2022

2021 Naval Engineering Awards Recipients Announced 

SFLC, Cutters Hamilton and Hollyhock, and buoy tenders recognized for tremendous impact in the fleet

Response boat on a river at sunset

April 18, 2022

New policy ensures pay for postpartum Reservists

Mothers with qualifying birth events will have paid authorized absences in lieu of inactive duty for training

A map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing the State of Alaska and the epicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. (NOAA)

April 15, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “The land turned to liquid”—Coast Guard operations in the Great Alaska Earthquake

The land turned to liquid. A long slice of the seaward edge of the plain…a section nearly a mile

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 14, 2022

FSMS: Progress report from the Incident Command

Travel card payment dates extended; new FSMS microsite brings all resources into a single hub.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star passes Alcatraz as the cutter transits the San Francisco Bay, April 4, 2022. Following their 147-day Antarctic deployment, the cutter will undergo annual maintenance in a Vallejo, California, dry dock. Courtesy photo by Sachiko Itagaki.

April 14, 2022

Frontline Focus: Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment

Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment; U.S., Philippine Coast Guards host maritime law enforcement forum in Guam; Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane returns home to Portsmouth, Virginia following 50-day patrol; and Coast Guard offloads $20 million in cocaine, following at-sea drug bust near Puerto Rico. 

Innovation Award trophies lined up to be presented to the Niels Thomsen Innovation Award recipients during an award ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters, March 2022. This year’s innovators found creative ways to solve and support members of the workforce.

April 13, 2022

2021 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards Recipients Announced 

Congratulations to all recipients