Chaplain Andrew Hoyle (standing, back left), Coast Guard headquarters’ Partnership in Education (PIE) coordinator, along with Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) volunteers, pose in front of a table full of backpacks stuffed with school supplies at Anita J. Turner Elementary School during a back-to-school night event, August 26th. Hundreds of Coast Guard and DHS volunteers donated equipment or helped pack backpacks with schools supplies to support the D.C. community through St. Elizabeth’s Back-to-School backpack and supply drive (Coast Guard photo by Patrick Ferraris).

Sept. 9, 2021

BZ: USCG and DHS partners hold successful local back-to-school backpack drive helping nearly 300 children, and more

BZ: USCG and DHS partners hold successful local back-to-school backpack drive helping nearly 300 children, and more USCG and DHS partners hold successful local back-to-school backpack drive helping nearly 300 children; Summer joint service cyber event proves to be a success; Military to Mariner (M2M) program issued the first set of course completion certificates for Lifeboatman Limited and Able Seaman endorsed ratings in August; Labor Day offered an opportunity to remember the strength, resilience, and contributions of the Coast Guard workforce

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Sept. 8, 2021

Coast Guard piloting office of data and analytics to empower better decision making.

Office of Data and Analytics coming 2022

Coast Guard Leader of the Week: Senior Chief Petty Officer Malia Chasteen

Sept. 8, 2021

Leader of the Week: Senior Chief Petty Officer Malia Chasteen

Our Leader of the Week is Senior Chief Petty Officer Malia Chasteen, officer in charge of Station Maui

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Sept. 7, 2021

Share the Coast Guard story online—new Social Media Handbook and website show you how

Review the new Social Media Handbook

40 members of boatswain mate “A” School receiving REACT training (Photo by: Lt. Cmdr. Tasha Sadowicz)

Sept. 7, 2021

Hundreds of new petty officers receive SAPRR training during “A” School

Enlisted leadership will know how to REACT, thanks to the work of Yorktown’s Victim Advocates

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone conduct a regular workout while at sea in the South Atlantic on Jan. 19, 2021. Maintaining physical fitness is key to performing operations safely. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class John Hightower)

Sept. 3, 2021

Don’t Let COVID “weight” you down

How to Develop your own Health Road Map

Lt. William Singletary, operations officer aboard the Cutter Eagle, moving pallets summer 2021. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Sept. 2, 2021

Reserve officer active duty integration explained

How does a “traditional” drilling reserve officer integrate into active duty?

From the crest of Mount Suribachi, the Stars and Stripes wave in triumph over Iwo Jima after U.S. Marines had fought their way inch by inch up its steep lava-encrusted slopes. Ca. February 1945. PhoM3c. John Papsun. (Coast Guard) NARA FILE #: 026-G-4140 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1222

Sept. 2, 2021

The Long Blue Line: “Hot Rocks”—a Coast Guardsman on the beach at Iwo Jima

[This essay was excerpted from the book chapter of the same name: “Hot Rocks,” Sea, Surf and Hell: The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), 276-79.]Because of the concentrated mortar fire, which the Japanese are laying down on this landing area, it is one of the bloodiest of all the assault beaches in the Pacific War to

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Seaman Apprentice Tatiana Muniz Guzman, a crewmember aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, stands ready to raise the morning colors, Jan. 9, 2017. Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, is on a counter narcotics mission in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Cutters like Sherman routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea conducting alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the U.S. mainland. (FOR RELEASE U.S. Coast Guard photo Chief Warrant Officer Allyson E.T. Conroy)

Sept. 2, 2021

Creating more opportunities for women to serve underway

Small changes to assets and policy have big impacts, expanding opportunities for women afloat

Sept. 2, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 65 miles east of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and more.

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 65 miles east of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Coast Guard assists two from vessel taking on water near Slocum Arm, Alaska; Coast Guard and good Samaritan rescue kayaker in water near Keene Island, Alaska; Coast Guard performs CPR on 52-year-old woman at restaurant.

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