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A photo of a fire out on the water from the perspective of a rescue boat.

Aug. 8, 2024

Recalling the Maui wildfire disaster and the Coast Guard’s coordinated response

One year has passed since the Coast Guard and Good Samaritan vessels responded to Lahaina wildfires.

The Coast Guard’s red team earned Department of Defense (DoD) certification on March 30, 2024. Current team members celebrating in Alexandria, VA, from left to right, (top): Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Caffrey, Cyber Mission Specialist (CMS), Connor Hazen, Daniel Coyne, Mario Simon, Juan Samson, Lt. j.g. Domenico Bulone, Ens. Isaiah Hernandez, Lt. j.g. Justin Steiner (bottom): Petty Officer 1st Class William Bischof, CMS, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jesus Silva, Chief Petty Officer David Lu, CMS

Aug. 5, 2024

Coast Guard cyber team moves up to the big leagues

How CGCYBER’s Red Team earned DoD certification to conduct joint force missions in record time — and why it matters.

Celebrating 234 years of service.

Aug. 4, 2024

Happy 234th Birthday, Coast Guard!

Here’s to many more years of service, honor, and a strengthened culture of excellence.

Coast Guard Cutter Stone conducts flight operations in the Caribbean Sea in early July. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 15, 2024

Best Places to Work: CGC Stone

Always Proud, Always Professional, and Always Prepared: the Stone crew take great pride in working hard.

U.S. Revenue Cutter Wolcott. The Wolcott was a sail-steamer homeported at Port Townsend, Washington, Territory. Although her crew discovered no drugs aboard the George E Starr, a landing party from the cutter made the earliest yet-known drug seizure by predecessor agencies of the Coast Guard, finding nearly 3,012 pounds of opium hidden in barrels at a fishery in Alaska on January 14, 1886. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 12, 2024

The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr

The story of the service’s first drug interdiction case (1891) and how it was misrepresented in the history books.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Aiden Cook, a marine enforcement specialist, takes aim on the rifle course during the first day of the DHS Invitational in Cheltenham, Maryland on June 12, 2024. Cook was one of a team of four Coast Guard marksman from Houston MSST who competed at the two-day shooting event.

July 9, 2024

Four Coast Guard marksmen take part in DHS firearms competition

Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST) from Houston gets a shot at glory and some hard training.

A Coast Guard small boat crew assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute (WMEC 620) gets underway in the North Caribbean Sea, July 15, 2023, Resolute was deployed in support of Homeland Security Task Force Southeast and Operation Vigilant Sentry to conduct migrant interdiction, deterrence, and maritime safety and security missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class David Deal)

July 2, 2024

Coast Guard building better system to get operational decisionmakers the data they need

Project Minerva to improve Maritime Domain Awareness and accelerate ability to act.

The original enlistment photograph for Robert Grattan Ward, later Silver Star Medal recipient for action on D-Day. (U.S. Coast Guard) With cargo nets dropped and LCVPs in position, the Joseph Dickman disembarks troops for amphibious landing. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 28, 2024

Coxswain for all invasions — Robert Ward and the Joseph T. Dickman at D-Day

The story of D-Day hero, Silver Star Medal recipient and FRC namesake Robert Ward.

Coast Guard academy graduates don personal protective equipment (PPE) during Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) training (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Brock Gross).

June 25, 2024

Coast Guard Academy graduates receive weapons of mass destruction training

Training is the first line of defense.

An 83-footer making the Channel crossing with other vessels just before the D-Day landings. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 21, 2024

Jack Hamlin — Boatswain, rescue swimmer, and savior of D-Day

CG-23 and other rescue cutters performed heroically against the weather and the odds. Jack estimated his boat saved around 50 lives that day.

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