Dec. 16, 2020

Congratulations to the 2020 Hopley Yeaton Award recipients

Annual awards honor excellent cutters and superior cuttermen

Dec. 16, 2020

Members: Help DoD set the new COLA rates for all services

DoD will email you the Living Pattern Survey in January.

Dec. 16, 2020

Promotions: Active Duty Chief Warrant Officer Selection Board Results

Congratulations to all who have been selected for promotion.

Dec. 16, 2020

New BAH rates are out

New BAH rates will affect all military members, including veterans using the GI Bill

Dec. 16, 2020

Deckplate Leader of the Week: Chief Petty Officer Steven Springer

Our deckplate leader of the week is Chief Petty Officer Steven Springer from Culinary Support Activity Yorktown!

Dec. 15, 2020

Deck Watch Officers: New $40K bonus to go afloat

Your leadership and ambition is needed at sea!

Dec. 15, 2020

New Officer Subspecialty: Operations Research & Data Analytics Professional

Are you an officer with operations research or data analytics experience?

Dec. 14, 2020

Coast Guard resumes uniform distribution

 For the past several months, members have experienced difficulty purchasing needed and required uniform items. Due to shortages resulting from the pandemic, the Uniform Distribution Center (UDC) had to concentrate its efforts on properly outfitting all recruits, cadets, and officer candidates, at times providing only partial sea bags, as well as

Dec. 11, 2020

The Long Blue Line: “Big Mac” attack--Icebreaker Mackinaw battles Lake Ice 75 years ago!

Normally, lake ice begins thawing at the end of April, but “Big Mac”--as the icebreaker is affectionately called in the Lakes region--has opened shipping lanes as early as the third week in March, thus facilitating the early movement of millions of tons of iron ore, grain, and other vital cargo.    U.S. Coast Guard Public AffairsFor generations,

Dec. 10, 2020

Game changer? Coast Guard tests unmanned surface vehicles

Self-driving boats might help with SAR, crowd control, smuggling and migrant interdiction