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Oct. 21, 2022

Mission Support Excellence in Customer Service Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the 2021 award winners.

A Coast Guard 82-foot patrol boat underway in the brown water of South Vietnam’s waterways. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Oct. 21, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Captured in Wartime—Vietcong Flag from Vietnam

An artifact of war.

Petty Officer 1st Class Alex Alfonso, an information systems technician stationed at Electronic Systems Support Detachment Baltimore, competes on the Coast Guard Gaming Rocket League team, April 2, 2022, in Warminster, Pennsylvania. This tournament, held by Philly Esports and Metro Gaming, was the first Coast Guard-sponsored esports event. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jasmine Mieszala)

Oct. 21, 2022

Coast Guard to compete in Veterans Day gaming competition

Here's the team heading to the Veterans Day Valorant Invitational gaming competition

Staff Sgt. Curtstein Luckett, left, and Staff Sgt. Christina House, focus on completing a practical exercise during the Basic Skills Education Program course held at the 88th Readiness Division Education Center, Fort McCoy, Wis., in January 2022. (Army photo by Cheryl Phillips)

Oct. 18, 2022

Tuition Assistance for the Coast Guard workforce has been extended for FY 23

Updated policy extends the Tuition Assistance Program into 2023.

Oct. 17, 2022

Coast Guard mother and son reunite at LAX after three years apart 

A family reunited after three years apart.

A young Marvin Perrett in his dress blue uniform during his World War II service in the Coast Guard. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Oct. 14, 2022

The Long Blue Line: The life and times of Marvin Perrett—Portrait of a World War II coxswain and FRC namesake

[Editor’s note: This article was first published in 2005 and has been modified to meet MyCG style. Marvin Perrett passed away in 2007. In recognition of his World War II service, he received numerous ribbons for naval campaigns in the European and Pacific theatres, as well as induction into the French Legion of Honor with rank of Chevalier. Perrett

Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathaniel Bracero and Petty Officer 2nd Class Neisha Torres recruiting for the Coast Guard at an event in Puerto Rico during the week of June 21, 2022. The couple, who grew up in Puerto Rico, put together and hosted a week-long series of recruiting events in their home country. (U.S. Coast Guard photo.)

Oct. 11, 2022

Portsmouth members take “Everyone is a Recruiter” back home to Puerto Rico

Two members spend a week recruiting potential applicants on the island where they grew up.

U.S. Coast Guard recruits (left to right), Madelin Germosen Santos, Pedro Reyes Rivera, Jose Nunez Planell, Fernando Rivera Perez, and Omar Perez Torres arrived at Defense Language Institute English Language Center's Echo Company Aug. 30, to be embedded with the U.S. Army trainees to being their English Language Training. The DLIELC's Language Center English Language Training for 10–24 weeks at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Once they are proficient enough in English to pass the English Comprehension Level test, they will ship to Boot Camp at Cape May, N.J. (U.S. Air Force photo by Spencer Berry)

Oct. 6, 2022

Coast Guard recruits join DLIELC’s Echo Company for English Language Training 

Four Coast Guard recruits attend English classes prior to attending boot camp.

USCGC Bear (WMEC 901) is seen from the left side of a formation during a photo exercise (PHOTOEX) as a part of Operation Nanook, Northern Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 6, 2022. Bear is partaking in the Tuugaalik phase of Operation Nanook, an annual exercise that allows the United States and multiple other partner nations to ensure security and enhance interoperability in Arctic waters. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

Oct. 5, 2022

Coordinating combat exercise operations from the inside of the cutter 

The role of a combat information center during a multinational military exercise 

Coast Guard Cutter Adak of PATFORSWA provides escort for aircraft carrier USS Nimitz through the Strait of Hormuz. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Sept. 30, 2022

The Long Blue Line: LANTAREA’s PATFORSWA Managers—over 15 years of leadership!

The present-day Contingency Operations Branch (LANT-39) formed out of the need to provide contingency support to a few cutters deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Initially viewed as a contingency operational need to support those cutters, a solicitation for a handful of Coast Guard reservists was made in 2005. Those reservists would

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