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Fire Engines from the Petaluma California area line up waiting the days instructions near the neighborhood og Dos Dios, just ouside Escondido California. The strike team was in Southern California helping fight the recent wildfires, Coast Guard Photos By CWO Scott Epperson.

Sept. 6, 2022

Make sure you are prepared for the next natural disaster

A family care plan for fires, earthquakes, and floods could save your life, or the life of someone you love.

Painting of Alexander Fraser showing his home town of New York and the cutter Harriet Lane in the background. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

Sept. 2, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Captain Fraser—Coast Guard’s forgotten visionary and first commandant

. . . [Captain] Fraser opposed an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and this official’s hostility proved fatal to the Captain’s long career: by an arbitrary abuse of power, the administration in 1856 revoked his commission summarily. Both indefensible and stupid, this action resulted wholly from personal animosity and cost the government one of

Lt. Orly Naum, the assistant engineering officer, at Aviation Training Center (ATC), Mobile Alabama, is the Coast Guard’s recipient of the Federally Employed Women (FEW) 2022 Military Meritorious Service Award.

Aug. 26, 2022

Congratulation to the Coast Guard's 2022 Military Meritorious Service Award recipients 

Bravo Zulu to Lt. Orly Naum and other women in leadership.

Crewmembers from Coast Guard Cutter Maple lay a wreath at the sight of a sunken Coast Guard Cutter in the Graveyard of the Atlantic, June 15, 2022. The crew of the Maple commemorated lives lost by visiting two sunken Coast Guard Cutters and a German U-boat. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kimberly Reaves)

Aug. 18, 2022

The Graveyard of the Atlantic: Exploring history aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Maple 

Here's a story about maritime archaeology and honoring the past.

Chief Petty Officer George Soto calculates points for the Female Armed Platoon drill competition at Monarch High School, Coconut Creek, Florida, Jan. 22. Soto is the Coast Guard recipient of the 2022 League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Excellence in Service Award. (USCG Courtesy Photo)

Aug. 17, 2022

George Soto wins the LULAC Excellence in Service Award 

Advancing diversity in underrepresented populations.

An engraving showing “wreckers” salvaging a grounded vessel in the Florida Keys. In 1822, around 40 British and nine American sloops served as wreckers in the Keys. In addition to providing rescue and salvage assistance to grounded vessels, a few were also notorious smugglers and pirates. (State Archives of Florida)

Aug. 12, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Revenue Cutter Alabama rescues 16 from human traffickers 200 years ago!

In June 1822, the Alabama District Court in Mobile heard cases against three vessels that had been seized several months earlier by the Revenue Cutter Alabama. Within the space of four days, beginning on March 4th, the 56-foot topsail schooner had captured them just north of the Florida Keys. Two were charged with “having onboard . . . negroes . .

Coast Guard Seal

Aug. 3, 2022

Coast Guard Day – Seeing the Completed Jigsaw Puzzle Picture

Here is part one of a two-part story of the beginnings for the United States Coast Guard as we celebrate 232 years.

Coast Guardsmen set up floating command post tied to a lamppost and dispatch personnel by dinghy to the flooded town. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Ohio River, 1937—Coast Guard’s largest flood response 85 years ago! 

Rescue in the Heartland

An HC-144 Ocean Sentry taxiis down the tarmac at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod post tropical storm Henri on Monday, August 23, 2021. Tropical Storm Henri made landfall in the Northeast bringing heavy rainfall, storm surges, and heavy winds across the coast. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Ryan L. Noel)

July 28, 2022

 Coast Guard revamps the way it delivers new aviation assets to the field  

New Aviation Projects Acquisition Center offers smoother process, better-defined career track for procurement professionals 

Lt. Jalle Merritt, a combat systems officer assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, photographed with a national security cutter in the background. Merritt is slated to command the Coast Guard Cutter Myrtle Hazard in July 2022

July 25, 2022

Opportunities for women afloat expand as 2023 transfer season approaches 

New and converted platforms offer varied missions, increased flexibility 

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