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Coast Guard Sector New Orleans command center personnel work to respond to calls from the Baton Rouge flooding in New Orleans, August 17, 2016. The Coast Guard actively coordinated search and rescue cases for people in distress.

Aug. 18, 2021

The PCS Assist Team will conclude at the end of September

If you’re PCS-ing beginning in October, command resources will be the best option

Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephanie Williams and Seaman Thadeus Shudark, both operations specialists, are hard at work in the Sector Hampton Roads Command Center, July 7, 2015. Every day communications watchstanders stand ready for any event.

Aug. 18, 2021

How to use clear communication strategies while at work—a Wellness Wednesday conversation

This Wellness Wednesday, learn about resources for effective interpersonal and professional communication

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Aug. 18, 2021

Best Places to Work: Station Ketchikan

The Salmon Capital of the World offers once-in-a-lifetime career development. 

The Coast Guard Leadership Development Center Pilots Inaugural Senior Leader Transition Course (SLTC) Class Photo, June 2021. (Coast Guard photo)

Aug. 17, 2021

The Coast Guard Leadership Development Center completes first Senior Leader Transition Course  

Lieutenant commanders and mid-level civilian equivalents have a new opportunity for professional development. The Coast Guard Leadership Development Center (LDC) in New London, Connecticut, has launched a Senior Leader Transition Course to prepare rising leadership within the workforce. The program is six weeks long consisting of a blended learning

Chief Petty Officer Paul Greenwood, Electronics Support Detachment Atlantic City, N.J., times Senior Airman Charles Zingrone, member of the 177th Fighter Wing New Jersey Air National Guard, during his motorcycle safety course at Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City June 8, 2011. Greenwood is one of four Coast Guard members trained to conduct the course for active duty members, their dependants and retirees. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Crystalynn A. Kneen.

Aug. 16, 2021

Get your motorcycle safety required class reimbursed

Aug. 30 deadline for fiscal year 2021 training reimbursement

: Master Chief Petty Officer Christopher Hinote wears the traditional Ancient Keeper’s hat, June 17, 2021. Hinote took over the position of Ancient Keeper June 17, 2021, at a change of watch ceremony at Station Grand Haven, Michigan, that was followed by the retirement of the former Ancient Keeper, Master Chief Petty Officer Kirk Mckay.

Aug. 16, 2021

The Coast Guard has a new Ancient Keeper

Master Chief Petty Officer Christopher Hinote is now upholding the tradition and legacy of overseeing boat operations

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Aug. 13, 2021

Leased housing program offers choices in a tight housing market

When Petty Officer 3rd Class Brady Ashment started looking for a place to live in Rockland, Maine, a few months ago, the nationwide housing shortage became all too real for his soon-to-be family of six. Not only was military housing unavailable in the area, two-bedroom apartments were renting for more than $2,000 a month. This exceeded his basic

An official photograph showing Surfman Rasmus S. Midgett in uniform. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Aug. 13, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Rasmus gets the Gold for individual heroism in a hurricane rescue!

A heroic rescue adapted from the U.S. Life-Saving Service Annual Report of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, 1900, pp. 25-28.

Cape Lookout Lighthouse with solar panels

Aug. 12, 2021

The Coast Guard has established a working group to focus on climate change

Capt. Steve Ramassini doesn’t see 15 acres of field along the northwest border of Training Center Petaluma – he sees an opportunity to enhance the resiliency of the base through renewable energies. “We’re increasing our renewable energy footprint and instituting energy storage in this field, which will not only enable off-grid operation, but will

A Coast Guard Cutter James (WMSL-754) 26-foot Over The Horizon (OTH) pursuit crew and a cutter James 35-foot Long Range Interceptor boat crew interdict a 26-foot smuggling panga with three suspected smugglers aboard in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2020. Cutter James is a National Security Cutter with robust capabilities for maritime homeland security, law enforcement and national defense missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Erik Villa Rodriguez)

Aug. 12, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter James conducts largest illegal narcotic offload in Coast Guard history worth more than $1.4 billion at Port Everglades, and more.

Also: Coast Guard, partner agencies respond to downed aircraft near Ketchikan, Alaska; Coast Guard, good Samaritan rescue six after vessel sinks 60 miles off Chincoteague, Virginia; Coast Guard medevacs 57-year-old man suffering from heart complications near Point Loma, California; MHS GENESIS Pacific Wave deployment “go-live” event, AUGUST 21st.