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Feb. 24, 2022

Commandant’s final SOTCG: Tuition support increases, cutter construction, and a workforce united in service

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The Coast Guard Cutter James' crew offloaded approximately 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana, worth approximately $1.06 billion, Feb. 17, 2022, in Port Everglades, Fla. The ship’s crew set new records during their 90-day patrol for the largest single cocaine interdiction at 10,915 pounds, worth $206.4 million, and the largest single marijuana interdiction at 3,962 pounds, worth $3.59 million, which is the greatest amount of contraband interdicted during an Eastern Pacific patrol. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jose Hernandez).

Feb. 24, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter James offloads more than $1.06 billion in illegal narcotics, and more.

Coast Guard Cutter James offloads more than $1.06 billion in illegal narcotics; Station San Juan crew, research vessel Neil Armstrong assist 2 US boaters in distress in Atlantic Ocean waters north of Puerto Rico; Coast Guard repatriates 13; Coast Guard medevacs mariner near Mobile Bay, Ala.

Gen. Paul Nakasone, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, returns a salute render from Coast Guard Rear Adm. Bill Kelly, Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, Jan. 20, 2022. Nakasone visited the Coast Guard Academy to discuss the vitality of cyber security infrastructure in an increasingly technological world with both senior leadership and cadets. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

Feb. 23, 2022

The CGA and the new operational domain

The Coast Guard Academy will soon commission its first Cyber Systems graduates later this academic year.

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Megan Dean, Cmdr. Clay Cromer, and high school student cadet leaders conduct the ceremony for the establishment of the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) unit at Pinellas Park High School in Largo, Florida, Nov. 12, 2021. The unit is the fourth and largest Coast Guard JROTC established, and the second unit established under recently-expanded federal law. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Hudson.

Feb. 22, 2022

Coast Guard will launch 2 new Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in Fall 2022

Increase in JROTC program growth is viewed as an investment in the future of nation and service

Chief Louis Etheridge near the end of his honorable and productive Coast Guard career. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 18, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Louis Etheridge—Gun captain and African-American war hero

Read about the courageous actions resulting in the Coast Guard’s first military medal bestowed on an African American Coast Guardsman for combat heroism.

The Coast Guard Cutter Valiant (WMEC 621) crew approaches a Dominican Republic Navy vessel Aldebaran (GC-104) crew in the Caribbean Sea during a 30-day patrol Feb. 11, 2022. The Valiant crew transferred migrants to the Aldebaran crew for repatriation. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

Feb. 17, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returns home after 30-day patrol, and more

Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returns home after 30-day patrol; Coast Guard interdicts lancha crew observed illegally fishing US waters; oast Guard Cutter visit highlights partnership with Fiji to combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing; Coast Guard rescues 2 from sinking vessel near Sitka, Alaska