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April 2, 2021

Ladies and Gentlemen,Below, please find the weekly All Hands Briefer (AHB), which provides key announcements and updates from this week. Have a great weekend!Top News Care, Inform, Ask: new resource to respond to victims of assault National virtual event: "Bring Your Children to OUR Work Day" New column! Frontline Focus Another new column! Bravo

Warning signs that a loved one might have issues with alcohol are decreased energy, denial of substance abuse, irritability, anxiety, mood swings, poor work performance and many more. Learn how to help.

April 2, 2021

“Stay Safe” using the Coast Guard’s low-risk drinking guidelines

April is Alcohol Awareness Month

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro gather in formation behind seized contraband during a drug offload in Alameda, California, March 23, 2021. Munro is one of four National Security Cutters homeported in Alameda. These Legend class cutters are 418-feet long, 54-feet wide, and have a 4,600 long-ton displacement. They have a top speed in excess of 28 knots, a range of 12,000 nautical miles, endurance of up to 90 days and can hold a crew of nearly 150. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Taylor Bacon)

April 2, 2021

New column! Frontline Focus

Here is a weekly wrap-up of operational highlights from around the service.

ATLANTIC OCEAN - Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Crouse, stationed aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle participates in the May 2010 Service Wide Examination (SWE) during the Eagle's transit to Puerto Rico Tuesday, May 4, 2010. The SWE is a competition, which certain enlisted rates must take in order to advance based on their raw score, sea time, time in service, time in rank, and award points. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jetta H. Disco.

March 31, 2021

Updated study guide for Service Wide Exam

Prepare for the May 2021 SWE with a new study resource.

Ensign Kirk M. Eastman from Sector Puget Sound, Enforcement Division holding the framed Maritime Security and Response Operations Excellence Award in February 2021.

March 31, 2021

MSRO Excellence awardees recognized

The Captain Carden and Boatswain's Mate First Class Cullen Maritime Security and Response Operations (MSRO) Excellence awardees recognized

Lt. Toby L. Sutton, executive officer at the Coast Guard Pay and Personnel Center

March 31, 2021

2020 USCG Human Resource Management Achievement Award recipients announced

Five Coast Guard employees have been selected as the Human Resources Management Achievement Award recipients. This year’s selection of winners represents the exceptional customer service, innovative thinking, and improved methods in human resource and talent management. Each year, the HRM Achievement Award provides an opportunity to recognize

CAPE MAY, N.J. - Chief Petty Officer William Herr, chief of police for Training Center Cape May, and his sons browse the aisles of the new Coast Guard Market Place aboard the training center during a sneak peek for Coast Guard families Nov. 4, 2012. The new MarketPlace is a benefit for military service members, their families, authorized beneficiaries and military retirees. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer Donnie Brzuska.

March 30, 2021

LAST CALL! Complete the Living Pattern Survey by Wednesday, March 31

Survey takes 30 minutes and has lasting impact to paychecks

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A helicopter crew from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville trains in the St. Johns River, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. HITRON hosted a production crew for the Military channel's Modern Sniper. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Hulme)

March 29, 2021

HITRON History Series: David W. Kunkel, Rear Admiral USCG (Ret.)

Learn more about HITRON.

March 26, 2021

Spouse of retired Coast Guard officer at the heart of Coast Guard Ombudsman’s origin story

Wanda Allen-Yearout recalls building the program 35 years ago.

Official Service photo of namesake 175-foot Keeper-Class buoy tender Coast Guard Cutter Barbara Mabrity. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

March 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Barbara Mabrity—Long-time Lighthouse Keeper and Hurricane Heroine

Barbara Mabrity, or someone from her family, kept the Key West Light for 82 of its 89 years of manned operation. And, for most of the Mabrity years, a female family member oversaw operation of the light.