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A map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showing the State of Alaska and the epicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. (NOAA)

April 15, 2022

The Long Blue Line: “The land turned to liquid”—Coast Guard operations in the Great Alaska Earthquake

The land turned to liquid. A long slice of the seaward edge of the plain…a section nearly a mile long and as much as six hundred feet wide-compacted, slumped, and then slid into the bay… men tumbled into the water, grasping for anything – timbers, boxes, debris-to stay afloat. One clung to the side of the fissure before he too, fell in. In the

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star passes Alcatraz as the cutter transits the San Francisco Bay, April 4, 2022. Following their 147-day Antarctic deployment, the cutter will undergo annual maintenance in a Vallejo, California, dry dock. Courtesy photo by Sachiko Itagaki.

April 14, 2022

Frontline Focus: Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment

Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment; U.S., Philippine Coast Guards host maritime law enforcement forum in Guam; Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane returns home to Portsmouth, Virginia following 50-day patrol; and Coast Guard offloads $20 million in cocaine, following at-sea drug bust near Puerto Rico. 

Innovation Award trophies lined up to be presented to the Niels Thomsen Innovation Award recipients during an award ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters, March 2022. This year’s innovators found creative ways to solve and support members of the workforce.

April 13, 2022

2021 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards Recipients Announced 

Congratulations to all recipients

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless' (WMEC-624) crewmembers offload bales of illegal narcotics on to pallet at Base Miami Beach, Florida, April 1, 2022. The Dauntless is homeported in Pensacola, Fla. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Eric Rodriguez)

April 7, 2022

Frontline Focus: Cutter Dauntless crew offloads more than $160 million in illegal narcotics, and more.  

Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless crew offloads more than $160 million in illegal narcotics; Kimball crew offloads more than 11,300 pounds of cocaine, more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana worth $223 million; Coast Guard rescues 3 mariners; and Cutter Tampa returns home. 

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., flies a Jayhawk on a training mission June 14, 2016. Jayhawk aircrews typically consist of two pilots, a flight mechanic and rescue swimmer. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Auxiliarist David Lau)

April 6, 2022

Coast Guard bringing on reserve pilots 

Reserve aviators to take to the skies.

U.S. Coast Guard Vice Commandant Vice Adm. Linda Fagan

April 5, 2022

Admiral Linda L. Fagan nominated to be first woman to serve as Commandant of the Coast Guard

Adm. Fagan has selected and the president has nominated Vice Adm. Steven D. Poulin as the Coast Guard’s 33rd Vice Commandant

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 5, 2022

FSMS: Progress report from the incident command

Update 2: Progress made through April 5, 2022

A Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point HC-130 Hercules aircrew conducts a medevac for a 66-year-old Ukrainian mariner from Palmyra Atoll, March 25, 2022. The mariner was suffering from abdominal pains and was transported to awaiting emergency medical services on Oahu. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew West/Released)

March 31, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs Ukrainian mariner from Palmyra Atoll, and more

Coast Guard medevacs Ukrainian mariner from Palmyra Atoll; Coast Guard medevacs 70-year-old hiker after 200-foot fall; Coast Guard repatriates 188 people to Haiti; Coast Guard repatriates 44 people to Cuba; and Unified Command established in for tug aground in Neva Strait, Alaska.

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

March 28, 2022

FSMS: Coast Guard works to pay backlogged claims

Update 1: Progress made March 21 – 25, 2022

The Coast Guard Cutter Stratton’s (WMSL 752) crew relieves the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro (WHEC 724) in the Bering Sea, March 12, 2021. The Douglas Munro was the Coast Guard’s last 378-foot high endurance cutter and was relieved by Stratton concluding their final patrol prior to being decommissioned April 24, 2021. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

March 25, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Alaska Ranger—the historic Bering Sea rescue that defied the odds and saved 42 souls!

A once in a career rescue, all in the cold waters of the Bering Sea.