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Ensign Kirk M. Eastman from Sector Puget Sound, Enforcement Division holding the framed Maritime Security and Response Operations Excellence Award in February 2021.

March 31, 2021

MSRO Excellence awardees recognized

The Captain Carden and Boatswain's Mate First Class Cullen Maritime Security and Response Operations (MSRO) Excellence awardees recognized

Lt. Toby L. Sutton, executive officer at the Coast Guard Pay and Personnel Center

March 31, 2021

2020 USCG Human Resource Management Achievement Award recipients announced

Five Coast Guard employees have been selected as the Human Resources Management Achievement Award recipients. This year’s selection of winners represents the exceptional customer service, innovative thinking, and improved methods in human resource and talent management.  Each year, the HRM Achievement Award provides an opportunity to recognize

Rear Adm. Andrew Sugimoto currently serves as the Coast Guard’s Assistant Commandant for Intelligence. As the Coast Guard’s Chief of Intelligence, he leads the efforts of over 1,100 intelligence professionals who conduct the service’s intelligence programs, to include collection activities, analysis and production, geospatial intelligence, counterintelligence, cryptology and critical IT and security functions.

March 31, 2021

Virtual Listening Session: Anti-Asian Sentiment  

Join this virtual community conversation discussing the recent increase in Anti-Asian Sentiment in the United States.

Our deckplate leader of the week is Senior Chief Petty Officer William ‘Benny’ Harris, a boatswain’s mate and the officer in charge at U.S. Coast Guard Station Montauk, New York.

March 31, 2021

Deckplate Leader of the Week: Senior Chief Petty Officer William ‘Benny’ Harris

Our deckplate leader of the week is Senior Chief Petty Officer William ‘Benny’ Harris, a boatswain’s mate and the officer in charge at U.S. Coast Guard Station Montauk, New York.

March 30, 2021

'We've been told we're too nice.'

You won't want to miss CGC Hamilton's video celebrating its female crew members.

CAPE MAY, N.J. - Chief Petty Officer William Herr, chief of police for Training Center Cape May, and his sons browse the aisles of the new Coast Guard Market Place aboard the training center during a sneak peek for Coast Guard families Nov. 4, 2012. The new MarketPlace is a benefit for military service members, their families, authorized beneficiaries and military retirees. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer Donnie Brzuska.

March 30, 2021

LAST CALL! Complete the Living Pattern Survey by Wednesday, March 31

Survey takes 30 minutes and has lasting impact to paychecks

Faculty, staff, and students from Gibson Elementary School welcome PIE program volunteers and coordinators of Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas during the PIE Kickoff event in December 2019. Lt. Mark Currier played a pivotal role in bringing the PIE program to Gibson Elementary School.

March 30, 2021

Partnership in Education presses on despite a pandemic 

Corpus Christie units find creative ways to maintain connection with their community 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A helicopter crew from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville trains in the St. Johns River, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. HITRON hosted a production crew for the Military channel's Modern Sniper. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Hulme)

March 29, 2021

HITRON History Series: David W. Kunkel, Rear Admiral USCG (Ret.)

Learn more about HITRON.

U.S. Coast Guard Ombudsman Program

March 26, 2021

Spouse of retired Coast Guard officer at the heart of Coast Guard Ombudsman’s origin story  

Wanda Allen-Yearout recalls building the program 35 years ago.

Official Service photo of namesake 175-foot Keeper-Class buoy tender Coast Guard Cutter Barbara Mabrity. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

March 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Barbara Mabrity—Long-time Lighthouse Keeper and Hurricane Heroine

Barbara Mabrity, or someone from her family, kept the Key West Light for 82 of its 89 years of manned operation. And, for most of the Mabrity years, a female family member oversaw operation of the light.