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Chaplain Cain with Mr. Luisi, U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

March 9, 2021

Chaplain Kimberly Cain welcomes the stranger

“Mental health is a basic right and dignity.”

Coast Guard members fly COVID-19 vaccines around the West Coast using a C-27 Spartan aircraft in Alameda, Calif. February 18. 2021. Coast Guard Base Alameda, in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the only Coast Guard medical facility on the West Coast capable of storing the Pfizer vaccines at their necessary temperatures of -60C to -80C. (U.S. Coast Guard photo released)

March 9, 2021

Operation Honey Bee: The Coast Guard is flying COVID vaccines

The Eleventh Coast Guard District has been getting creative in distributing vaccines throughout the Pacific Area.

March 9, 2021

Dear Coast Guard Family: Becoming an Ombudsman

Learn about becoming and Ombudsman and their responsibilities.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Coast Guard Information Systems Technician adjusts cables inside a server room at the Telecommunication and Information Systems Command (TISCOM) Jan. 24, 2013. ITs are responsible for establishing and maintaining Coast Guard computer systems, analog and digital voice systems (telephones and voicemail), and installing and maintaining the physical network infrastructure that ties the systems together. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith

March 9, 2021

Virtual learning gains traction at TRACEN Yorktown

Training Center Yorktown has created an educational environment without a single classroom, as they launch virtual, and self-paced, and facilitated remote learning environments to meet the needs of a busy workforce.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Kelly Badal, a crew member of Coast Guard Communication Command, works on a computer inside a Coast Guard enhanced mobile incident command post (EMICP) in Bayonne, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. The EMICP provided a spacious and climate-controlled environment, voice and data connectivity as well as acted as the security command post during the papal visit and United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Frank Iannazzo-Simmons)

March 8, 2021

Sector Commanders moves to virtual training to protect workforce, and increase efficiency

Sector commander and department head courses have transitioned to a virtual learning environment

March 8, 2021

Tom’s Run: America’s longest fun run is hosted by the Coast Guard

June 4-6: Join the DC-area event, form your own remote team, or just run the equivalent of a relay leg.

U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Karl Shultz, commandant of the Coast Guard, alongside a panel of six selected junior officers, address cadets at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, March 3, 2021. The panelists discussed their own personal experiences in the field to give insight into what lies ahead once the cadets join the fleet as officers.
(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ronald Hodges)

March 5, 2021

Opportunities abound in the U.S. Coast Guard

A panel of six Coast Guard junior officers spoke to the corps of cadets and officer candidates at the Coast Guard Academy about exciting, future opportunities.