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Coast Guard Cutter Blue Shark transits the waters of the Salish Sea alongside HMCS Saskatoon and HMCS Yellowknife during a joint exercise on Feb. 17, 2022. The exercise was conducted to train and prepare Royal Canadian navy crews for deployments to support United States counter-narcotics operations. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Steve Strohmaier)

March 3, 2022

Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard, Navy host international exercise with Royal Canadian navy, and more.  

Coast Guard, Navy host international exercise with Royal Canadian navy; Coast Guard Cutter Reliance returns to homeport following 52-day patrol; Coast Guard discovers illegal halibut catch near Kodiak, Alaska; Coast Guard repatriates 42 Cubans to Cuba; and Coast Guard commissions 46th Sentinel-class cutter. 

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Samuel Wilson, a student in the Cold Water Ice Diving (CWID) course, resurfaces on Ferrell Lake, located on Camp Ripley, Feb. 3, 2022. Divers hold onto the edge of the ice until instructed to exit the water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jessica Fontenette)

March 1, 2022

Divers train in extreme conditions to master their craft

Diving just got cooler.

The Coast Guard Cutter James' crew offloaded approximately 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana, worth approximately $1.06 billion, Feb. 17, 2022, in Port Everglades, Fla. The ship’s crew set new records during their 90-day patrol for the largest single cocaine interdiction at 10,915 pounds, worth $206.4 million, and the largest single marijuana interdiction at 3,962 pounds, worth $3.59 million, which is the greatest amount of contraband interdicted during an Eastern Pacific patrol. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jose Hernandez).

Feb. 24, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter James offloads more than $1.06 billion in illegal narcotics, and more. 

Coast Guard Cutter James offloads more than $1.06 billion in illegal narcotics; Station San Juan crew, research vessel Neil Armstrong assist 2 US boaters in distress in Atlantic Ocean waters north of Puerto Rico; Coast Guard repatriates 13; Coast Guard medevacs mariner near Mobile Bay, Ala.

Chief Louis Etheridge near the end of his honorable and productive Coast Guard career. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 18, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Louis Etheridge—Gun captain and African-American war hero 

Read about the courageous actions resulting in the Coast Guard’s first military medal bestowed on an African American Coast Guardsman for combat heroism.

Rear Adm. Nathan Moore, Seventeenth District commander, and Capt. Darwin Jensen, Coast Guard Sector Juneau commanding officer, participates in an advancement ceremony for Petty Officer 1st Class Allysia Helton at Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Sitka, December 16, 2021. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alexandria Preston.

Feb. 17, 2022

Meritorious Advancement Program; Coast Guard Foundation honors Eighth District; Swarigen Award winner

Bravo Zulu!

Coast Guard reserve members support Operation Allies Welcome, Feb. 10, 2022. USCG photo.

Feb. 16, 2022

Coast Guard members demonstrate character, commitment assisting refugees

Service members support Operation Allies Welcome

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Lauren Kowalski, assistant operations officer aboard Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10), stands in front of the Polar Star during ice liberty as the cutter transits toward Antartica, Jan. 7, 2022. Kowalski is the recipient of the Hopley Yeaton Superior Cutterman of the Year Award and was selected for her efforts in the ice pilot program, which saw her deploy aboard several U.S. Coast Guard and Royal British Navy icebreakers. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Diolanda Caballero)

Feb. 14, 2022

Combining a passion of science with a career of ice breaking 

How one junior officer is keeping science at the helm of her career. 

A flotilla of Coast Guard landing craft evacuated a battalion of Marines surrounded at Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. For his heroism in this operation, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro received the service’s only Medal of Honor. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 4, 2022

The Long Blue Line: 1942—Coast Guard’s history making year 80 years ago!

Remembering events from 1942

Participants in the ground breaking ceremony shovel dirt, to signify the beginning of the energy microgrid project on U.S. Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) Petaluma, California, Jan. 28, 2022. The goal of the project is to allow TRACEN Petaluma to be able to produce their own power for up to 10-days of independent and full operations through the installation of five megawatts of solar photovoltaic and 11.6 megawatt hours of battery storage. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Taylor Bacon)

Feb. 3, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard holds renewable energy microgrid groundbreaking ceremony in Petaluma, California and more

Coast Guard holds renewable energy microgrid groundbreaking ceremony in Petaluma, California; Coast Guard, local responders recover deceased man, rescue woman in distress in ocean waters off ‘El Morro’ castle in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Coast Guard rescues 2 off Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

Emblem for the U.S. Coast Guard Personnel Service Center

Feb. 2, 2022

ALCGPSC 017/22: Assignment Year 2022 Commander Assignment Panel Results

Commander assignment slate for 2022

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