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Base Kodiak's Morale, Well-Being and Recreation staff are pictured in April 2020 during their monthly free ice cream giveaway for Coast Guard families. COVID protocols were in place to avoid close contact during the monthly giveaways in the spring and summer. The event was turned into an ice cream drive-through and 363 families were served.

Nov. 4, 2021

Creating programs for innovation and morale of Coast Guard families

2020 Morale, Well-Being and Recreation Unit Program of the Year Award winners announced

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered the keynote address at the Coast Guard Academy during the 140th Commencement Exercises May 19, 2021. The Coast Guard Academy graduated 240 new officers along with seven international students. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Thieme)

Nov. 4, 2021

BZ: Coast Guard Academy, Adm. Nimitz Pistol Competition, Coast Guard and Aviation History Month

Bravo Zulu to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy for ranking among the nation’s top institutions of higher learning. This year the academy once again ranked No. 1 in the Top Public Schools Regional Colleges North and the overall Regional Colleges North categories in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges magazine. The academy was also ranked No.

Navy Talent Acquisition Group Mid America Future Sailor James Cockrill plays Valorant against the U.S. Navy esports team, Goats & Glory, at an esports event during Kansas City Navy Week, June 29, 2021. Kansas City Navy Week is the first in-person Navy Week since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing Sailors from different Navy units across the U.S. to conduct focused outreach with members of the community. Navy Weeks consist of a series of events coordinated by the Navy Office of Community Outreach designed to give Americans an opportunity to learn about the Navy, its people and its importance to national security and prosperity. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chris Williamson)

Nov. 2, 2021

DEADLINE: Represent the Coast Guard in the upcoming Call of Duty tournament 

United States and British Armed forces team up with elite Call of Duty streamers in December competition  

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Nov. 2, 2021

Military OneSource: Resources at your fingertips 

Find what you need for PCS moves, to dealing with stress. 

The last known photograph of the Bear taken from a Coast Guard aircraft before it sank in March 1963. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 2, 2021

Captain Healy’s Cutter Bear—once lost, now found! 

As with so many forgotten Coast Guard stories of heroism, bravery, and courage, the story of Michael Augustine Healy and his trusty cutter Bear is unknown to most Americans. Healy was born in 1839 on a plantation in Georgia to a plantation owner and a slave. His father sent Healy north with his siblings so they would escape enslavement in the South

Oct. 29, 2021

Coast Guard child care fee assistance is transitioning to Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood (MCCYN) fee assistance

Beginning Dec. 6, MCCYN available for active duty families.

After its service as a VOA floating transmitter, Courier became Coast Guard reserve training ship, stationed at Training Center Yorktown. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Oct. 29, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Cold War Cutter Courier—“Valiant fighter in the cause of freedom” 

I am speaking to you today from a ship. It is a special kind of ship, and it will perform a very special mission. This vessel will not be armed with guns, or with any instruments of destruction. But it will be a valiant fighter in the cause of freedom. It will carry a precious cargo--and that cargo is truth. ~ President Harry S Truman, U.S. Coast

STS-85 Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam (020-22), Jan Davis (025), Steve Robinson (029-31), Payload Specialist Bjarni Tryggvason (026-28) and Pilot Kent Rominger (032-34) in sleep restraints mounted on the middeck bulkheads. View of both Davis and Robinson in their respective sleep restraints (023-24). View STS085-327-026 was selected by the crew for use in the postflight presentation.

Oct. 29, 2021

The “weight” of poor sleep 

How sleep plays a role in your daily habits and mood 

Coast Guard tattoo policy graphic

Oct. 28, 2021

Expanded tattoo policy for military members

Policy change affects behind-the-ear and finger tattoos

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Emlen Tunnell, Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's fourth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, into service at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia on Oct. 15, 2021. Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, will preside over the ceremony. Yvonne Gilmore Jordan, the eldest first cousin to Tunnell, is the ship's sponsor. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Clinton Muir)

Oct. 28, 2021

BZ: U.S. Coast Guard commissions Sentinel-class cutter named for enlisted hero, NFL great Emlen Tunnell, and more.

BZ: U.S. Coast Guard commissions Sentinel-class cutter named for enlisted hero, NFL great Emlen Tunnell; and Deadline approaching to participate in the Coast Guard Foundation’s $100,000 Matching Gift Challenge; Special sneak peak of the National Coast Guard Museum.

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