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A Coast Guard Hockey team member wears the Mid-Atlantic team jersey in the 2024 Tunnels to Towers Heroes Cup on Sept. 14, 2024, in Morristown, New Jersey. The Coast Guard Hockey team claimed victory in the 2024 Tunnels to Towers Heroes Cup representing Coast Guard active duty, reserves, and veterans while raising funds for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Sydney Phoenix)

Oct. 2, 2024

Coast Guard Hockey Organization: Supporting servicemembers, first responders

The Coast Guard claimed victory in the 2024 Tunnel to Towers (T2T) Heroes Cup Hockey Tournament!

The Coast Guard Cutter Munro sails during unusually calm waters on the Bering Sea.

Oct. 2, 2024

Coast Guard pioneers new pathway to readiness

Future Sentinel Preparatory Course helps recruits meet physical standards before boot camp.

Lt. Victoria Castleberry (left), Capt. Mark Kuperman (top), and Ms. Megan Johns Henry (bottom), are all photographed in a collage together. Each of them have recently finished a Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) program.

Oct. 1, 2024

Make innovative, impactful change while networking & growing your career

CHDS grads share how they transformed as leaders in and out of the classroom.

Shallow-Water Response Team 3 crewmembers rescued four pit bulls, 11 beagles and their owners from rising flood waters caused by Hurricane Florence in Delco, North Carolina, September 16, 2018. The Coast Guard is conducting search and rescue operations in support of state and local emergency operation centers. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Stephen Kelly)

Sept. 27, 2024

Coast Guard’s Storm Warriors fought North Carolina’s Hurricane Florence

When Florence’s path began tracking towards the East Coast, the Coast Guard was ready once again to live up to its motto.

Featured Image ATTACHED: U.S. Coast Guard operations specialists stand watch in the Ninth District Command Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 24, 2024. Operations specialists are tactical command and control experts, coordinating responses to a wide variety of Coast guard missions, including search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, marine environment protection, homeland security, and national defense. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessica Fontenette)

Sept. 26, 2024

Innovating in the face of change

The evolution of the Coast Guard's Operations Specialist School.

Cabo Rojo Lighthouse seen from the front in 1895. (Library of Congress)

Sept. 20, 2024

Domingo Suarez y Rosa — Towerman of Puerto Rico

In 1898, the Spanish American War saw Puerto Rico’s sovereignty transferred from Spain to the U.S. and towermen serving in Spanish lighthouses transferring to the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Coast Guard Office of Leadership logo

Sept. 18, 2024

Are you an E-5 who just took the SWE?

You’re the number one priority to get into Leadership and Management School (LAMS) this training year!

-Chief Boatswain’s Mate Pablo Valent shown later in his career in a service photograph in his dress uniform. (National Archives) -A Type “E” 36-foot motor surfboat similar to the one used by the Brazos Station crew to rescue the men aboard the schooner Cape Horn. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Sept. 13, 2024

Brazos Station’s Latino lifesavers and the catastrophic Florida Keys Hurricane

The Florida Keys Hurricane of 1919 was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. In its path sailed numerous unsuspecting vessels.

6 photos on a blue background celebrating the advancement of PO1 Jennaya Allen being replaced by her sister PO2 Gabriela Alongi.

Sept. 12, 2024

Sisters in Service

Petty Officer 1st Class Jennaya Allen and Petty Officer 2nd Class Gabriela Alongi get to do something only seen a handful of times within the Coast Guard, one sibling taking over the other’s position.

A petty officer 2nd class is in a dress uniform to receive a "pinning" of a brand new rank insignia for Response Operations Ashore.

Sept. 11, 2024

Coast Guard issues new Response Operations Ashore Insignia

Sector Maryland-National Capital Region ceremony marks service’s first new insignia in over 20 years.

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