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Sept. 22, 2021

Access to YouTube and social media coming to the Coast Guard

Coast Guard unclassified network will soon support social media websites and commercial email

Chief Bosun’s Mate Pablo Valent of the Brazos Boat Station, known today as Station South Padre Island. (National Archives)

Sept. 17, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Hispanic American history of the Coast Guard—200 years of service!

Celebrating Hispanic American history

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge crew offloaded approximately 1,700 kilograms of seized cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan Friday, following the disruption go-fast vessel smuggling attempt by Coast Guard and British Virgin Islands authorities near Anegada, British Virgin Islands. The seized cocaine has an estimated wholesale value of approximately $51 million dollars. This disruption and seizure is the result of multi-agency efforts involving the Caribbean Border Interagency Group and the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Sept. 16, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard offloads $51 million in cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following at-sea drug bust near the British Virgin Islands and more

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard offloads $51 million in cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following at-sea drug bust near the British Virgin Islands; Coast Guard rescues stranded man off rocks near Greyhound Rock County Park; Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, “America’s Tall Ship,” is scheduled to arrive in Portsmouth on Sept. 17, 2021; Coast Guard, partner agencies manage oil clean up in Delaware.

The Coast Guard Academy revealed a new uniform for their football team, Sep. 14, 2021. The new uniforms honor the legacy of United States Life-Saving Service Station 17 from Pea Island, North Carolina. Pea Island was the first life saving station to be manned by an all black crew, including keeper Capt. Richard Etheridge. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Aux. David Lau)

Sept. 15, 2021

Legacy Lives On: How and why the Coast Guard Academy is honoring the history of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station

Remembering our history, honoring our legacy

160624-N-MZ309-365 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 24, 2016) Legend-class cutter USCGC Stratton (WMSL 752) and littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) steam in formation while transiting to Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 10, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Riley/Released)

Sept. 13, 2021

New division strengthens operational partnership with U.S. Navy

Navy Type Navy Owned Combat Systems Management Division is established

NEW YORK, New York (Sept. 15)--The World Trade Center complex continues to burn, while the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma controls vessel traffic in New York harbor September 15. USCG photo by PAC Brandon Brewer

Sept. 10, 2021

The faces of September 11, 2001.

Remembering 20 years

Official New York Police Department photograph of Officer Vincent G. Danz. (NYPD photo)

Sept. 10, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Vincent Danz—9/11 hero and FRC namesake

Others lived due to his heroic efforts. Here's the story of PS2 Vincent G. Danz.

Sept. 10, 2021

The Long Blue Line: 20 years after 9/11—a day that changed the Coast Guard forever

How the Coast Guard has evolved over the past 20 year

Chaplain Andrew Hoyle (standing, back left), Coast Guard headquarters’ Partnership in Education (PIE) coordinator, along with Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) volunteers, pose in front of a table full of backpacks stuffed with school supplies at Anita J. Turner Elementary School during a back-to-school night event, August 26th. Hundreds of Coast Guard and DHS volunteers donated equipment or helped pack backpacks with schools supplies to support the D.C. community through St. Elizabeth’s Back-to-School backpack and supply drive (Coast Guard photo by Patrick Ferraris).

Sept. 9, 2021

BZ: USCG and DHS partners hold successful local back-to-school backpack drive helping nearly 300 children, and more

BZ: USCG and DHS partners hold successful local back-to-school backpack drive helping nearly 300 children, and more USCG and DHS partners hold successful local back-to-school backpack drive helping nearly 300 children; Summer joint service cyber event proves to be a success; Military to Mariner (M2M) program issued the first set of course completion certificates for Lifeboatman Limited and Able Seaman endorsed ratings in August; Labor Day offered an opportunity to remember the strength, resilience, and contributions of the Coast Guard workforce

Official Coast Guard photograph of Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Palazzo early in his Coast Guard career. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Sept. 9, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Jeffrey Palazzo—a 9/11 Coast Guard hero’s story

After her husband perished saving lives on 9/11, Lisa Palazzo adopted a son who now carries his name - and continues his tradition of Coast Guard service.