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U.S. Coast Guard seal.

Aug. 26, 2024

Do you qualify for FY2025 bonuses or incentives?

Coast Guard authorizes incentives, suspends High Year Tenure until 2027.

Coast Guard enlistment photograph of Joseph R. Toahty at age 21. (National Archives) A faded image of marines landing on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942. The marines landing on Guadalcanal far outnumbered the unprepared Japanese troops and civilian airfield workers on the island, so the enemy fled for the cover of Guadalcanal’s jungle interior. (U.S. Navy)

Aug. 23, 2024

Guadalcanal — Pawnee warrior strikes the first blow beside Doug Munro

Joseph Robert Toahty became the first Pawnee Indian to go to sea, the first Native American to participate in a U.S. naval offensive operation, and first Native American to set foot in enemy territory.

The graphic for Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, (DCMS).

Aug. 20, 2024

The Coast Guard’s new Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, Vice Adm. Tom Allan, and his Command Master Chief, Michael Ingham, share upcoming priorities

As the Coast Guard welcomes a new Mission Support commander, view his “Commander’s Intent” outlining his expectations for the Mission Support workplace.

Soaked and tired, a U.S. Life-Saving Service crew lands the rescued survivors of a shipwreck. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Aug. 16, 2024

Hero without a headstone

Forgotten Keeper Joseph Doyle and his Gold Lifesaving Medal rescues.

Changes this year will be more targeted, thanks to recruiting numbers going up.

Aug. 9, 2024

Coast Guard releases Force Alignment plan for AY25

Changes this year will be more targeted, thanks to recruiting numbers going up.

A photo of a fire out on the water from the perspective of a rescue boat.

Aug. 8, 2024

Recalling the Maui wildfire disaster and the Coast Guard’s coordinated response

One year has passed since the Coast Guard and Good Samaritan vessels responded to Lahaina wildfires.

The Coast Guard’s red team earned Department of Defense (DoD) certification on March 30, 2024. Current team members celebrating in Alexandria, VA, from left to right, (top): Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Caffrey, Cyber Mission Specialist (CMS), Connor Hazen, Daniel Coyne, Mario Simon, Juan Samson, Lt. j.g. Domenico Bulone, Ens. Isaiah Hernandez, Lt. j.g. Justin Steiner (bottom): Petty Officer 1st Class William Bischof, CMS, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jesus Silva, Chief Petty Officer David Lu, CMS

Aug. 5, 2024

Coast Guard cyber team moves up to the big leagues

How CGCYBER’s Red Team earned DoD certification to conduct joint force missions in record time — and why it matters.

Celebrating 234 years of service.

Aug. 4, 2024

Happy 234th Birthday, Coast Guard!

Here’s to many more years of service, honor, and a strengthened culture of excellence.

Coast Guard Cutter Stone conducts flight operations in the Caribbean Sea in early July. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 15, 2024

Best Places to Work: CGC Stone

Always Proud, Always Professional, and Always Prepared: the Stone crew take great pride in working hard.

U.S. Revenue Cutter Wolcott. The Wolcott was a sail-steamer homeported at Port Townsend, Washington, Territory. Although her crew discovered no drugs aboard the George E Starr, a landing party from the cutter made the earliest yet-known drug seizure by predecessor agencies of the Coast Guard, finding nearly 3,012 pounds of opium hidden in barrels at a fishery in Alaska on January 14, 1886. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 12, 2024

The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr

The story of the service’s first drug interdiction case (1891) and how it was misrepresented in the history books.

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