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Cmdr. Morgan Holden with her husband Lt. Dave Holden pose with family during their vacation at Base Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

June 27, 2021

Postcards from Elizabeth City 

MWR resources across the country offer affordable lodging in unique and appealing locations

Cmdr. Merle J. Smith, Jr. was the second African American to receive an appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the first to graduate. Smith served as a role model for countless cadets, faculty, and staff at the Coast Guard Academy.

June 25, 2021

Fair winds and following seas: Cmdr. Merle Smith, CGA's 1st African American graduate

Cmdr. Smith, 76, died June 16. The wake and funeral service will be held next month in New London.

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June 24, 2021

Money Matter$: start investing today

Washington, DC — Investing can be easy or complicated. My goal as a Coast Guard Personal Financial Manager (PFM), is to provide basic information to encourage clients to start investing early in their careers since long-term investing may result in a much larger overall benefit. Compound interest is defined as earning interest on previously earned interest. So the

Contraband sailors on the Union Navy receiving ship USS Vermont, moored at Port Royal, South Carolina, during the Civil War. (metmuseum.org)

June 18, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Glimpses through a mustered past—uncovering African-American cuttermen through Civil War muster rolls

For the last 10 years, NOAA and the National Archives and Records Administration have been collaborating to make a trove of historical information and data available to the public online.

Seaman Apprentice George Duartes Alazar, left, 87th Security Forces Squadron master at arms, poses with family. Duartes Alazar is from Bensalem, Pennsylvania and is now stationed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He is not far from home and surrounded by fellow service members within the 87th Security Forces Squadron, however he struggled with feelings of loneliness and the effects of depression. (Courtesy photo)

June 2, 2021

Discussing healthy relationships

Today’s Wellness Wednesday is a second part from last week’s discussion about healthy relationships. 

2. The only known image of Revenue Cutter Service officer William Cooke Pease. Taken in 1860, it is the oldest photograph of a cutterman that exists. (Florence Kern, Captain Pease: U.S. Coast Guard Pioneer)

May 28, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Lt. Pease recounts the Key West Hurricane 170 years ago!

Here is a historical first-hand account of the Key West Hurricane of 1846 (a.k.a. The Great Havana Hurricane).

Mara Huling Langevin – A Link in the Long Blue Line

May 20, 2021

Mara Huling Langevin – A Link in the Long Blue Line

“I never thought about being the first of anything.  All I wanted to do was be a pilot and fly.”  

Lt. Cmdr. Diana Gertsch, the CGCA system owner, is pictured demonstrating how providers will connect with their patients using the virtual appointment technology.

May 18, 2021

Coast Guard Care Anywhere: Virtual medical appointments now available 

You may have recently noticed an email inside your Coast Guard inbox from Coast Guard Care Anywhere (CGCA). This means that the Coast Guard’s telehealth virtual appointments are now available to you as an active duty or a reserve member, once you activate your account.Although in some geographic locations, COVID-19 exposure risks have reduced,

. Photo of Hawaiian Manuel Ferreira in uniform posing with his family in 1926. (Lighthouse Digest Magazine)

May 7, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The history of Pacific Island men and women in the U.S. Coast Guard

For over 170 years, thousands of Pacific-Island men and women have served with distinction in the United States Coast Guard.

Coast Guard Cutter Eagle sails in Long Island Sound, July 30, 2020. The Eagle has served as a classroom at sea to future Coast Guard officers since 1946, offering an at-sea leadership and professional development experience. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Thieme)

May 6, 2021

Frontline Focus Column 

America’s Tall Ship set to depart New London for summer training, and other cutter news