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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.
The Long Blue Line: Buddy Ebsen—Hollywood actor and World War II patrol frigate officer
Hollywood actor, Coast Guard WWII hero
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.
April 18, 2022
Coast Guard Academy Participates in NSA Cyber Exercise 2022
Practicing cyber security with higher institutions.
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
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.
April 8, 2022
Coast Guard to join sister service branches by getting its own national museum
Groundbreaking expected to take place late summer or early fall 2022
The Long Blue Line: “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back”—origin of the old Life-Saving Service motto
The lore behind the motto
April 7, 2022
Frontline Focus: Cutter Dauntless crew offloads more than $160 million in illegal narcotics, and more.
Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless crew offloads more than $160 million in illegal narcotics; Kimball crew offloads more than 11,300 pounds of cocaine, more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana worth $223 million; Coast Guard rescues 3 mariners; and Cutter Tampa returns home.
See the Coast Guard Band on its Southern Connections Tour
The Coast Guard Band will be providing free performances throughout the Southeastern United States.
Last reviewed on: 10/05/2020