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Ice climbers train at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, near Munising, Mich., in preparation for Michigan Ice Fest the week of Feb. 9-13, 2022. Coast Guard members from Air Station Traverse City and Station Marquette train closely with National Park Service rangers and volunteers to hone their skills. Photo courtesy Chief Ranger Joseph Hughes, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Feb. 23, 2022

Rescuers train together, preparing for an emergency in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula

Training and teamwork help Coast Guard and other rescuers work better — together

Feb. 22, 2022

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Coast Guard is modernizing organizational communications

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Feb. 22, 2022

ALCGENL 011/22: AY23 Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent solicitation

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A Coast Guard Officer's hat, sword, gloves and ribbons are displayed together with the American Flag.

Feb. 22, 2022

Officers: Create your professional roadmap, attend OPM virtual career guidance roadshows

First of 10 sessions begin Feb. 23

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Megan Dean, Cmdr. Clay Cromer, and high school student cadet leaders conduct the ceremony for the establishment of the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) unit at Pinellas Park High School in Largo, Florida, Nov. 12, 2021. The unit is the fourth and largest Coast Guard JROTC established, and the second unit established under recently-expanded federal law. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Hudson.

Feb. 22, 2022

Coast Guard will launch 2 new Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in Fall 2022

Increase in JROTC program growth is viewed as an investment in the future of nation and service

Chief Louis Etheridge near the end of his honorable and productive Coast Guard career. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 18, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Louis Etheridge—Gun captain and African-American war hero

Read about the courageous actions resulting in the Coast Guard’s first military medal bestowed on an African American Coast Guardsman for combat heroism.

The Coast Guard Cutter Valiant (WMEC 621) crew approaches a Dominican Republic Navy vessel Aldebaran (GC-104) crew in the Caribbean Sea during a 30-day patrol Feb. 11, 2022. The Valiant crew transferred migrants to the Aldebaran crew for repatriation. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

Feb. 17, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returns home after 30-day patrol, and more

Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returns home after 30-day patrol; Coast Guard interdicts lancha crew observed illegally fishing US waters; oast Guard Cutter visit highlights partnership with Fiji to combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing; Coast Guard rescues 2 from sinking vessel near Sitka, Alaska