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The Coast Guard's Commandant's Ball, 2014

July 19, 2021

Event: 2021 Coast Guard Ball

After more than a year of social distancing and cancelled events, the Coast Guard Ball is back! Please consider volunteering or helping design the event's challenge coin.

A 1957 aerial photograph of Sangley Point Naval Air Station, home of air station detachment Sangley Point, located not far from Manila in Manila Bay. (Wikipedia)

July 16, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard’s mission to the tropics--LORAN aviation in the Philippines

Keeping the signal strong around the globe

Volunteers gather at Bread for the City on June 29 to support the needy during Feds Feed Families. This year's annual government-wide campaign highlights a summer of giving to local food banks and pantries like Bread for the City. Photo by Kyah Campbell, volunteer coordinator, Bread for the City, SE.

July 15, 2021

Bravo Zulu: Coast Guard employees demonstrated a spirit of giving through the Feds Feed Families program, and more

Feds Feed Families, Coast Guard Lady selected for the Spirit of Hope Award, CG Foundation new shipmate fund

The Coast Guard Cutter Thetis’ crewmembers deploy the cutter’s small boat to rescue people in the water approximately 32 miles southeast of Key West, Florida, July 7, 2021. The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan rescued 13 people from the water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Coast Guard Cutter Thetis crew)

July 15, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard and Good Samaritan rescue 13 from water off Key West

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Thetis, good Samaritan rescue 13 from water off Key West, and more

Chief Petty Officer Maureen Potratz, a member of the Coast Guard Base Rockmore-King Clinic staff, receives a COVID-19 vaccination shot by Petty Officer 2nd Class Qarina Orlowski, in Kodiak, Alaska, on Jan. 8, 2021. Coast Guard 17th District personnel are working diligently to vaccinate servicemembers to combat the spread of COVID-19. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Capt. Charles Truncale.

July 14, 2021

The latest about COVID and its long term effects—a Wellness Wednesday discussion 

Join us for Wellness Wednesday July 14, at 3 pm EDT

CAPE MAY, N.J. - Senior Chief Petty Officer Frederick Clay, a Recruiter School instructor, teaches virtual modules to prospective recruiters, June 24, 2021, at Training Center Cape May. Recruiter School has been held virtually since early 2020 due to COVID. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Timothy Tamargo

July 13, 2021

Recruiter school goes virtual

Like so many things these days, learning to be a recruiter can be done virtually

A crew member from one of Sector Houston-Galveston's underlying units lays a rose to commemorate a fallen crew member of the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn during the 41st-anniversary memorial service Jan. 28, 2021, at Base Galveston in Galveston, Texas. The Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn sank after colliding with the tanker vessel Capricorn in Tampa, Florida, near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Jan. 28, 1980 and lost 23 of its 50 crew members in the Coast Guard’s worst peacetime disaster. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Dickinson)

July 12, 2021

Auxiliary chaplains prove to be essential to the Coast Guard 

Learn how the Auxiliary Chaplain Support Program can benefit you 

An aerial shot of the tidal flats and marshlands in southern Louisiana, taken June 25, provides an idea of just how difficult oil clean-up operations would be in such a shallow and densely vegetated environ. Coast Guard members and civilian boat crews are working to boom off inlets to these areas in order to prevent contamination of one of the Gulf Coast's most sensitive ecosystems.

July 12, 2021

The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council has announced $302 million in funding to address ecosystem needs across throughout the Gulf of Mexico  

The funding decision supports restoration activities spanning the Gulf Coast states impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill 

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)

July 12, 2021

Swab summer: How it started

Swabs begin their journey at CGA

Picture of Capt. Jim O’Keefe with author Meghan Watson after her graduation from boot camp at Training Center Cape May. (Photograph courtesy of James O’Keefe)

July 9, 2021

The Long Blue Line: “Go to New Orleans and do whatever you can to help!”--Coast Guard aviator remembers Hurricane Katrina

Read about Cmdr. Jim O'Keefe's experience during Hurricane Katrina

Last reviewed on: 10/05/2020