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An 83-footer making the Channel crossing with other vessels just before the D-Day landings. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 21, 2024

Jack Hamlin — Boatswain, rescue swimmer, and savior of D-Day

CG-23 and other rescue cutters performed heroically against the weather and the odds. Jack estimated his boat saved around 50 lives that day.

Coast Guard Auxiliary Celebrates 85th Anniversary.

June 21, 2024

Coast Guard Auxiliary Celebrates 85th Anniversary

Recognizing 85 years of service to the nation and the amazing volunteers that make up this extraordinary organization

Petty Officer 2nd Class Will Naden, a boatswains mate at Station Apra Harbor, gives a safety brief to Department of Defense personnel in Sumay Cove, Guam, ahead of a boat trip to view the Outer Apra Harbor breakwater on Dec. 4, 2023. The breakwater was damaged by Typhoon Mawar and an effort is underway to effect repairs. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer Sara Muir)

June 18, 2024

The wave maker

Petty Officer 2nd Class William Naden's journey from Malesso to marine conservation.

Capt. Kelly Denning shares the impact the PIE Program has had on Sector New Orleans. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

June 17, 2024

Learn how the Coast Guard’s Partnership In Education Program can save students’ lives

Capt. Kelly Denning shares the impact the PIE Program has had on Sector New Orleans.

Black and white photo of Seaman John “Jack” DeNunzio in dress blues. (Coast Guard Collection) A rare color photo of Flotilla Ten on the River Dart, England, preparing for the landings on D-Day. (Coast Guard Collection)

June 14, 2024

D-Day hero Jack DeNunzio and LCI-94 at Normandy

Jack DeNunzio’s final breath would be forever recorded for posterity by a Coast Guard photographer and a world-renowned Life Magazine combat photographer.

Integrated Primary Prevention Program logo.

June 12, 2024

Meet the Integrated Primary Prevention Program

Inside the IPP and how volunteer Resilience Coordinators can promote positive behaviors.

The Parental Leave Augmentation Program was born from the CG’s Women’s Retention RAND study, with a purpose of alleviating the guilt our female members experience from extended absences away while balancing the physical demands and desires to have a child.

June 11, 2024

Five years of the Parental Leave Augmentation Program

Through the program, reservists have helped hundreds of Coast Guard families take needed time to welcome new children.

“Into the Jaws of Death: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day invasion of the French coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machinegun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft.” (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Photographers Mate Robert F. Sargent.)

June 7, 2024

Into the Jaws of Death — Coast Guard landing craft at D-Day

Story and images of CPO Robert Sargent, “Into the Jaws of Death” photographer.

Auxiliarist Clink O'Connor is seated at his desk working on developing an iPhone application to assist in PATON.

June 6, 2024

Coast Guard Auxiliary creates time-saving app to verify Private Aids to Navigation (PATON)

New iPhone app streamlines process, reduces errors in PATON data.

Strengthening Service Culture

June 6, 2024

Strengthening Service Culture through Our Core Values

Together, we'll explore what Honor, Respect, and Devotion to Duty mean to us.

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