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Commissary Steward First Class Alphonzo F. Barbour dressed in his steward uniform including medals he received during his Coast Guard career. (Courtesy of Vince Patton)

Feb. 24, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Remembering centurium Alphonzo Barbour—eyewitness to African American history

The Coast Guard's 8th MCPOCG shares his time with a centenarian.

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Feb. 21, 2023

Coast Guard announces 2022 Engineer of the Year Award 

Andrew Lawrence honored for outstanding achievements.

A rare image of River Cutter Yocona’s crew in 1925 shows her black enlisted men, and white officers and non-commissioned officers posed aboard the cutter. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 17, 2023

The Long Blue Line: The mystery of “River Cutter” Yocona the Coast Guard's first desegregated cutter homeported in the Deep South.

Homeported in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cutter Yocona’s achievement remains an important chapter in American minority history.

Feb. 16, 2023

Coast Guard members: lace your shoes—the 2023 Coast Guard Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K is nearly here

Registrations for the race now to join in-person or virtually. 

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Feb. 15, 2023

Coast Guard Families: CGMA is offering expanded supplemental educational assistance you may need

CGMA increased it’s Supplemental Education Grant for those enrolled in post-secondary education. 

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Feb. 14, 2023

BNA is now payable to eligible Coast Guard members  

Five-year program began Jan. 1  

Logo of the 82nd anniversary of the Coast Guard Reserve Component. The logo was specially commissioned for this historic milestone. (U.S. Coast Guard Image courtesy of Christopher Rose)

Feb. 14, 2023

Coast Guard Reserve Component marks 82nd anniversary  

Here’s how to watch the Feb. 16 commemoration 

Three Coast Guard Foundation Scholars and College Graduates from left to right Isabel DeSanno, Kya Girabaldi, Noah Pawlowski

Feb. 13, 2023

Coast Guard Foundation Scholarships 2023 Open Season is here!

How to apply for a Coast Guard Foundation Scholarship this year.

Petty Officer 3rd Class John "Branch" Walton, a rescue swimmer assigned to Air Station North Bend, Oregon, poses for a portrait at the air station Feb. 14, 2023. Walton rescued a mariner in distress Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, after the disabled, 35-foot vessel Sandpiper was capsized by a breaking wave approximately 6 miles west of the Columbia River mouth. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

Feb. 13, 2023

Meet the rescue swimmer who saved a man after a massive wave capsized a yacht

Coast Guard rescue swimmer reflects on first rescue in the Graveyard of the Pacific

A 1942 colorized photograph of Seaman Robert E. Thompson. (Courtesy of Robert E. Thompson)

Feb. 10, 2023

The Long Blue Line: WWII recruit training at Manhattan Beach and desegregating the U.S. military

Many African American Coast Guard recruits trained in the New York facility prior to serving their country.

Last reviewed on: 10/05/2020