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Assignment priority breakdown by rate

May 18, 2023

Coast Guard improves assignment priority for Indo-Pacific and hard-to-fill areas

AP panel retains six priorities as part of its triennial review.

Operation Dry Water graphic

May 16, 2023

Operation Dry Water: boost partnerships and reduce fatalities

Annual campaign designed to educate the public on boating safety. 

A logo of the USCG Civil Rights team

May 15, 2023

Advancing leaders through opportunity

Coast Guard celebrates Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Rear Adm. Wiemers honors the 2022 Deployable Special Forces (DSF) Award winners celebrated during the DSF Commanders Conference April 20, 2023.

May 15, 2023

Congratulations to the very first winners of the Deployable Specialized Forces Awards

The Coast Guard announces the winners of the 2022 Deployable Specialized Forces (DSF) Awards—the inaugural year of the award. 

A crewmember on Coast Guard Cutter Healy takes a swing at the crew’s new biodegradable golf balls while on patrol in May 2022.

May 11, 2023

Units: Submit your Shipmate Funds request by June 30

The Coast Guard Foundation wants to help meet your unit’s fitness, morale and recreational needs.

Vice Adm. Kevin Lunday, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area commander, and Atlantic Area staff hold a commemorative flag with retired Army Maj. Gen. Peter Aylward, director of The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration in Portsmouth, Virginia, Oct. 14, 2022. The VWC program awarded the flag in recognition of Coast Guard Atlantic Area becoming a commemorative partner of the organization. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kate Kilroy)

May 10, 2023

Honor our Vietnam veterans this weekend

From May 11-13, visitors will flock to Camp Legacy on the National Mall to check out helicopters, armored amphibious vehicles, historical artifacts, musical performances, drill teams, and lessons from curators on preserving your family members' own military artifacts.

The new legal program military qualification insignia recognizes the Coast Guard’s military and civilian specialists in the field of law.

May 9, 2023

Legal program unveils qualification insignia for military members, civilians

Lt. Cmdr. Brett McCall of Sector Detroit designed the lighthouse-centric insignia.

A Coast Guard yeoman assists a fellow Coast Guardsman at the Coast Guard Recruiting Command, February 28, 2013. YNs are key problem-solvers, counselors, and sources of information to personnel on questions ranging from career moves, entitlements, and incentive programs to retirement options and veterans' benefits.

May 8, 2023

How-To: Move your household goods

PCS season is upon us! Here is everything Coast Guard members and families need to know.

A veteran of the Civil War as a U.S. Navy officer, and the Spanish-American War as part of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, Frank Hamilton Newcomb served for over 40 years in the U.S. sea services. He was a progressive thinking man and considered one of the finest officers of the Revenue Cutter Service. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

May 5, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Lt. Frank Newcomb and the Battle of Cardenas Bay 125 years ago

Spanning the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, Frank Hamilton Newcomb served for over 40 years in the U.S. sea services.

Petty Officer 2nd Class King instructs advanced combat marksmanship recently at a Naval Special Warfare firearms range in San Diego wearing his Deployable Special Forces Kit. King is the Coast Guard’s 2022 Enlisted Person of the Year.

May 4, 2023

Introducing Petty Officer 2nd Class James King, your 2022 Coast Guard Enlisted Person of the Year

“It's the people that make me enjoy doing what I do.”