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Petty Officer 2nd Class John Tchorz and Petty Officer 2nd Class Austin Krohne, stationed at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, deploy a Surface Velocity Program Drifting Buoy over the North Atlantic Ocean on April 22, 2022. The buoy will enable the International Ice Patrol members to monitor currents and determine the extent of iceberg distribution for vessels transiting the area. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kimberly Reaves)

May 17, 2022

International Ice Patrol: 11 decades of monitoring the Northern Atlantic waters

As a response to the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912, the International Ice Patrol continues to track icebergs

First Class Cadet Manuel Gutierrez Rodriguez, an international cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy, participates in an interview on campus in New London, Conn., March 21, 2022. Rodriguez will be returning to his home nation of Mexico after commissioning with the Class of 2022, which has the highest number of international students in history. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Thieme)

May 16, 2022

A Long Way From Home: International cadets accept challenge and find support at the CGA  

Graduating international students share Academy experience.

U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet 1/c Juan Acevedo-Perez poses for an environmental portrait, here, April 27. Acevedo-Perez was being celebrated for his outstanding academic and military performance during his four year cadet experience. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

May 11, 2022

CGA Graduation: Future Leaders 2022

Members of this year’s graduating class will soon be heading out to take their place in the fleet

Petty Officer 1st Class Lecia Mauge-Chan, an operations specialist, poses for an environmental portrait in the command center of Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads in Portsmouth, Virginia, March 20, 2019. Operations specialist is one of four critical ratings in Coast Guard recruiting efforts. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Matt Sprague.

May 11, 2022

Hiring and retention bonuses for operational specialists

Operations specialists keep U.S. Coast Guard executing the mission

Portrait of William Tatham in 1779. Tatham was a contemporary and frequent correspondent of the president. He was universally acknowledged as brilliant, but could be abrasive and arrogant. He quickly alienated the other two commissioners, Jonathan Price and William Coles, working on the 1806 survey. They ended up submitting separate reports, and only Coles and Price produced the chart. (North Carolina Historical Review, July 1972)

May 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Death by hurricane of Coast Survey Cutters Diligence and Governor Williams 216 years ago

A busy hurricane season of 1806.

International partners gather to discuss how to to globally strengthen cyber resiliency against threats to the Marine Transportation System, May 10-12, 2022 in Long Beach, Calif.

May 5, 2022

EVENT: Register for the first ever Global MTS Symposium

Hosted by USCG and the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in partnership with Denmark and the Netherlands

Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter, active duty recipient of the 2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award, with wife, Jean, at his 2018 advancement ceremony. Photo courtesy Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter.

May 2, 2022

2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award recipients announced

MyCG interviews the active duty and civilian winners 

Prinsendam cruising the sheltered waters near Skagway, Alaska, before her fire and subsequent loss. (Alaska State Library)

April 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!

Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,

The commissioning crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr., Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's sixth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, stand at attention as the ship is placed into service at a ceremony held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, April 21, 2022. The cutter's namesake is Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Clarence Sutphin Jr., a New York native who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1941 to 1945. During this time, Sutphin served as landing craft coxswain on board the attack transport USS Leonard Wood (APA 12), a landing craft supporting our troops in North Africa and Sicily. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Schultz)

April 28, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter, and more.

Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter; Coast Guard offloads $11.7 million in cocaine, transfers 6 suspected smugglers in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard Cutter Legare crew stops drugs, rescues Colombian fishers on 3-month patrol in Eastern Pacific, Caribbean; and Coast Guard hosts Army Corps of Engineers for site survey and future projects in San Francisco Bay.

A U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet, a member of the Academy's cyber team looks at his computer while participating in the National Security Agency's (NSA) annual cyber exercise (NCX), here, Mar. 31, 2022. The Academy's cyber team won third place out of 12 total teams. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

April 18, 2022

Coast Guard Academy Participates in NSA Cyber Exercise 2022

Practicing cyber security with higher institutions.

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