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U.S. Navy, Coast Guard personnel posing with some of the captured gear left behind by the Nazi saboteurs. (Franklin Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY)

June 13, 2025

Bags of clams? Not likely. Here’s how a Coast Guard Seaman Recruit altered the course of World War II

Jack Cullen, 21, thwarted a Nazi plan to sabotage America’s shoreside infrastructure.

The 2013 Cyber Protection Team (CPT) took part in training designed to simulate real-world port attacks at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington in April 2025. The exercise utilized the newly developed maritime platform, part of the Control Environment Laboratory Resource (CELR) offered by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). 2013 CPT members are: CMS1 Connor Menden, Mr. Frank Constantelos, LT Ievgen Stepanchuk (CG-791), CMS1 Cody Ralph, CMSC David Kinnamont, CMS2 Katlin Cilley, ENS Harold Scott, ET1 Dylan Slentz.

June 11, 2025

How Coast Guard cyber protection teams train for real-world port attacks

New maritime laboratory resource in Washington simulates actual threats.

The fog of war on D-Day as Allied landing craft put ashore troops on the Normandy beaches. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 6, 2025

Eddy Priestly and D-Day’s Saviors

Over the course of the Normandy invasion, Flotilla One’s cutters saved 1,438 men.

Coast Guard names winners for Inspirational Leadership Awards.

June 5, 2025

Honoring Our Finest Leaders of 2025

Coast Guard names winners for Inspirational Leadership Awards.

The Galveston waterfront was devastated by the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. (Library of Congress)

May 30, 2025

Death, destruction at Galveston Lifesaving Station

Hurricane season is fast approaching (June 1st). Today we take a look back at one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

Lt. Cmdr. Ben Yahle speaks with his children while underway using new cutter connectivity technology. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo)

May 29, 2025

Cutter connectivity is faster than ever before

New satellites are “game-changing” for cutter crews worldwide.

Rear Adm. Amy B. Grable discusses Force Design 2028 at the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Joint Engineer Training Conference, JETC in Louisville, KY on May 14, 2025. Grable and Coast Guard leadership shared updates on the Coast Guard’s evolving mission landscape and looked to build industry partnerships to assist in the modernization of the Service at the 3-day event.

May 28, 2025

Coast Guard says industry collaboration key to achieving Force Design 2028

Rear Adm. Amy Grable emphasizes partnerships at Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) conference.

Lone survivor of the 52-foot Triumph, Gordon Huggins attends an anniversary memorial service in 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard)

May 23, 2025

Reflecting on the 1961 Triumph-Mermaid tragedy

“There was no sign of anybody inside. I just hung on and prayed as the ship filled with water.”

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick medevacs an injured fisherman Oct. 15, 2022, off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The John McCormick crew placed the patient in the care of the Canadian Coast Guard Patrol Vessel M. Charles M.B. crew, who brought him to EMS in Port McNeill. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

May 22, 2025

Coast Guard recognizes its emergency medical response personnel during Emergency Medical Services Week

National Emergency Medical Services Week is observed May 18-24, 2025.

Secretary Noem’s Force Design 2028 Executive Report outlines her vision for the Coast Guard’s future.

May 21, 2025

Sec. Noem announces Force Design 2028, nominee for the next Commandant during Coast Guard Academy commencement address

FD28 calls for vast organizational changes, more people, a Service Secretary, and technological transformations.