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Coast Guard Sector Guam welcomed its new commander as Capt. Nicholas Simmons assumed command from Capt. Christopher Chase during a change of command ceremony at Sector Guam, June 3, 2021. The ceremony was presided over by Rear Adm. Matthew Sibley, commander, Coast Guard 14th District. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Sector Guam/Released)

June 10, 2021

Frontline Focus

Coast Guard Cutter Active returns to homeport in Port Angeles after seizing $106M worth of cocaine, Coast Guard Sector Guam holds change of command ceremony

Video featuring members of the Coast Guard workforce sharing the reasons they chose to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

June 9, 2021

VIDEO: Getting Vaccinated

Washington, DC — Over two-thirds of the Coast Guard is fully or partially vaccinated

Members of Coast Guard Base Kodiak collaborate with joint services in support of the Arctic Care 2021 (AC21) program, May 1-18, 2021. AC21 provided care to remote Alaskan communities, through the Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program, from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. (U.S. Coast Guard photo.)

June 8, 2021

Base Kodiak participates in joint operation bringing services to remote area in Alaska

Federal, local, and state agencies participate Arctic Care 2021

Seal of the USCG Reserve

June 4, 2021

COVID-19: Reserve demobilization guidance

All reservists on active duty in support of COVID-19 must demobilize by Sept. 30 or transition to a new funding string.

Official Coast Guard Public Affairs photo of Seaman 1st Class Eugene Edwin Oxley of Stilesville, Indiana. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 4, 2021

The Long Blue line: “Lucky Ox”—surviving the killing fields of D-Day

Operation “Overlord” led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and end of the Second World War in Europe. "Lucky Ox" being one of the Coast Guard heroes of the operation.

Ensign Kathleen Spotz, stationed at Sector Northern New England in South Portland, Maine, was named the 2020 Coast Guard Female Athlete of the year in recognition of her superior performance as a runner. Recently, Spotz ran across the entire state of Maine in just over 30 hours—becoming the first person ever to do so!

June 3, 2021

Bravo Zulu

Congratulations to all our award winners, and be sure to check out the Coast Guard Reserve Policy Board Final Report! 

The Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous transits the water near Virginia Beach, Virginia, July 11, 2016. Vigorous returned home following a 55-day deployment in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in support of the Coast Guard's Western Hemisphere Strategy. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Leake

June 1, 2021

Members allowed to carry up to 90 days of special leave accrual 

Here’s a plan to manage your extra leave accrual earned due to the continued response to the pandemic. 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Coast Guard Information Systems Technician adjusts cables inside a server room at the Telecommunication and Information Systems Command (TISCOM) Jan. 24, 2013. ITs are responsible for establishing and maintaining Coast Guard computer systems, analog and digital voice systems (telephones and voicemail), and installing and maintaining the physical network infrastructure that ties the systems together. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith

May 28, 2021

First-ever signed Cloud Strategy moves the Coast Guard one critical step closer to modernization

Cloud Services help move the service into modernized technology

Coast Guard members from units surrounding Mobile, Alabama, come together at Radney Funeral Home in Mobile to honor John F. Crowley who passed away May 19 May 26, 2017. Crowley served over 30 years in the Coast Guard. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis Magee/Released)

May 28, 2021

Memorial Day: Honor Guardmen reflect on the historical traditions of military funeral honors

The presentation of colors, bugler, and gun salutes are wartime traditions carried on by our Honor Guard

2. The only known image of Revenue Cutter Service officer William Cooke Pease. Taken in 1860, it is the oldest photograph of a cutterman that exists. (Florence Kern, Captain Pease: U.S. Coast Guard Pioneer)

May 28, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Lt. Pease recounts the Key West Hurricane 170 years ago!

Here is a historical first-hand account of the Key West Hurricane of 1846 (a.k.a. The Great Havana Hurricane).