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Rare photo showing the heroic Pea Island Lifesaving Station crew commanded by famed African American keeper Richard Etheridge. (Coast Guard Collection)

Feb. 28, 2023

Legacy’s Shadow: The Keeper’s Lost Grave

Finding the final resting place of Keeper Capt. L.S. Wescott

U.S. Coast Guard Academy Cadet 1st Class Hannah Bliss poses for a picture aboard the NRP Sagres while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 17, 2022. The NRP Sagres is a sister ship to the Coast Guard Cutter Barque Eagle, and is still in use as a training vessel for the Portuguese Navy. (Coast Guard courtesy photo by First Cadet Hannah Bliss)

Feb. 27, 2023

Same but different; Eagle’s sister ship holds true to its vintage origin

A Coast Guard Academy cadet shares her time aboard the NRP Sagres III.

Commissary Steward First Class Alphonzo F. Barbour dressed in his steward uniform including medals he received during his Coast Guard career. (Courtesy of Vince Patton)

Feb. 24, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Remembering centurium Alphonzo Barbour—eyewitness to African American history

The Coast Guard's 8th MCPOCG shares his time with a centenarian.

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Feb. 21, 2023

Coast Guard announces 2022 Engineer of the Year Award 

Andrew Lawrence honored for outstanding achievements.

A rare image of River Cutter Yocona’s crew in 1925 shows her black enlisted men, and white officers and non-commissioned officers posed aboard the cutter. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 17, 2023

The Long Blue Line: The mystery of “River Cutter” Yocona the Coast Guard's first desegregated cutter homeported in the Deep South.

Homeported in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cutter Yocona’s achievement remains an important chapter in American minority history.

Petty Officer 3rd Class John "Branch" Walton, a rescue swimmer assigned to Air Station North Bend, Oregon, poses for a portrait at the air station Feb. 14, 2023. Walton rescued a mariner in distress Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, after the disabled, 35-foot vessel Sandpiper was capsized by a breaking wave approximately 6 miles west of the Columbia River mouth. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

Feb. 13, 2023

Meet the rescue swimmer who saved a man after a massive wave capsized a yacht

Coast Guard rescue swimmer reflects on first rescue in the Graveyard of the Pacific

A 1942 colorized photograph of Seaman Robert E. Thompson. (Courtesy of Robert E. Thompson)

Feb. 10, 2023

The Long Blue Line: WWII recruit training at Manhattan Beach and desegregating the U.S. military

Many African American Coast Guard recruits trained in the New York facility prior to serving their country.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Brett Rielly, a boatswain's mate stationed at Coast Guard Station Juneau, Alaska, writes out an equation used to calculate distance in Jody Levernier's sixth-grade math class at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School April 19, 2013. This event marked the fifth consecutive year that Levernier invited Coast Guard personnel to her class to show students how practical math is in the real world. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Grant DeVuyst.

Feb. 6, 2023

Part 2 Here are more 2023 New Year’s Logs!

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Rare photo showing the heroic Pea Island Lifesaving Station crew commanded by famed African American keeper Richard Etheridge. (Coast Guard Collection)

Feb. 3, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Keeper Richard Etheridge and the Gold Medal lifesavers of Pea Island

The first African American officer-in-charge of a military installation.

Vice Adm. Paul F. Thomas, Coast Guard deputy commandant for mission support (center), presents the 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Award for small units to ISVS PRO Baltimore staff in November 2022. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Feb. 3, 2023

Here’s what’s new for the second Year of the Excellence in Customer Service Awards

Customer nominations welcome.