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A Coast Guard Information Systems Technician adjusts cables inside a server room at the Telecommunication and Information Systems Command (TISCOM) Jan. 24, 2013. ITs are responsible for establishing and maintaining Coast Guard computer systems, analog and digital voice systems (telephones and voicemail), and installing and maintaining the physical network infrastructure that ties the systems together. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith

Feb. 7, 2022

New Cyber Mission Specialist enlisted rating expands cyberspace career opportunity

Cyber Mission Specialist billets will be available in the 2023 assignment year

A flotilla of Coast Guard landing craft evacuated a battalion of Marines surrounded at Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. For his heroism in this operation, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro received the service’s only Medal of Honor. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 4, 2022

The Long Blue Line: 1942—Coast Guard’s history making year 80 years ago!

Remembering events from 1942

Rear Adm. William Kelly, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy superintendent, signs a memorandum of understanding with University of Massachusetts Chancellor, Marcelo Orozco, as part of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Scholars Pilot program in Boston, January 28, 2022. The scholars program is intended to help students with a desire to join the Coast Guard choose an education path that will benefit them the most during their academic and military careers.(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Briana Carter)

Feb. 3, 2022

Coast Guard Academy forges partnership with University of Massachusetts; Coast Guard Academy to honor legacy of SPARs; Commemoration of Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn’s fallen

Bravo Zulu!

Emblem for the U.S. Coast Guard Personnel Service Center

Feb. 2, 2022

ALCGPSC 017/22: Assignment Year 2022 Commander Assignment Panel Results

Commander assignment slate for 2022

A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater aircrew and a Royal Bahamas Defence Force boat crews intercepted 88 people aboard a Haitian sail freighter near Great Inagua, Bahamas Jan. 23, 2022. The people were intercepted during a suspected migrant venture approximately 23 miles west of Great Inagua, Bahamas. (Royal Bahamas Defence Force photo)

Jan. 27, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard, partner agency intercept 88 Haitians near Great Inagua, Bahamas, and more.

Coast Guard, partner agency intercept 88 Haitians near Great Inagua, Bahamas; Coast Guard rescues six from distressed sailing vessel near Mona Island, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard repatriates 90 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic following three illegal voyage interdictions near Puerto Rico; Coast Guard rescues kayaker near Slidell, Louisiana; and Navy and Coast Guard stop boat in Caribbean with suspected cocaine shipment worth $22 million.

Jan. 25, 2022

ALCGPSC 015/22: Award of the Humanitarian Service Medal for Haiti Earthquake Relief Operations

Members who were physically present in the Joint Task Force Haiti Joint Operations Area may be eligible for the Humanitarian Service Medal.

Vintage black and white image of Lightship 70 marking the entrance to San Francisco Bay. (U.S. Lighthouse Service)

Jan. 21, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard pioneers the marine radio over 100 years ago!

Learn how radio became a basic part of a maritime communications.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Christian Ortega Santiago, a hospital corpsman, and another member of the crew of the Sentinel-class Coast Guard Cutter Glen Harris treat a migrant for symptoms of hypothermia following his rescue from the water in the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 5, 2021. The Glen Harris, with the Coast Guard Cutter Emlen Tunnell and the Coast Gaurd Cutter Thetis are conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of responsibility while the Sentinel-class cutters transit from the U.S. to their new homeport of Manama, Bahrain. U.S. Sixth Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied and interagency partners, to advance U.S. national interests, security, and stability in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ade Gills)

Jan. 20, 2022

Frontline Focus: U.S., Spain and Morocco collaborate to conduct rescue at sea in Atlantic Ocean, and more.

U.S., Spain, Morocco rescue 103 migrants at sea; Coast Guard Cutter Stone returns to homeport after 61-day patrol; Coast Guard rescues six hunters from Cape Cod marsh, Mass.; Coast Guard rescues 2 jet skiers near Atkinson Island, Texas; and Coast Guard partners with SailPlan to monitor marine infrastructure, increasing port efficiency and helping achieve climate goal.