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Vice Adm. Michael McAllister, Deputy Commandant for Mission Support and Vice Adm. Steven Poulin, commander Atlantic Area, participate in ribbon cutting ceremony for Crotty-Ethridge Hall March 23, 2021 in Yorktown, Virginia. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Aug. 10, 2021

Training Center Yorktown gets new modern firing range named in honor of Coast Guard heroes

Crotty-Etheridge Hall is complete after two years of construction

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

Aug. 9, 2021

DHS experts host live virtual vaccine Q&A

Session will cover common questions like, How was the vaccine developed so quickly? Is it dangerous?

Aug. 6, 2021

Coast Guard updates workplace safety guidance

New restrictions align with the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Management and Budget, and the Centers for Disease Control.

Architectural rendering of the future Maritime Center of Excellence (MCOE) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The future MCOE will enhance the waterfront facilities at the Academy by offering interactive and high-tech classrooms for a variety of educational and leadership development courses. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association)

Aug. 5, 2021

Frontline Focus: Future Maritime Center of Excellence to transform U.S. Coast Guard Coast Guard Academy waterfront in New London, Connecticut, and more.

Frontline Focus: Future Maritime Center of Excellence to transform CGA waterfront; U.S. Coast Guard commissions 3 Fast Response Cutters in Guam; USCG, Royal Bahamas Defense Force conduct international port security engagement; Coast Guard breaks ground on new cutter support facility at Base Los Angeles/Long Beach; Coast Guard Cutter Dependable crewmembers return home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, following 29-day patrol.

CDR Ryan Popiel flies Rear Adm. Nathan Mooreon the upgraded MH-65E helicopter.

Aug. 4, 2021

Coast Guard celebrates its Professional Engineers

The Sixth Annual National Professional Engineers Day highlights how vital these critical skills are to our mission

Graphic celebrating 231 years of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Aug. 4, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Day edition

How Alexander Hamilton's cutters are moving into the future, 231 years after we became "America's "first fleet"

In 2020, Martha G. Stewart from Training Center Yorktown was the recipient of the Swaringen Award. Stewart was honored by this recognition. Over the past five years, she has had the privilege of working with so many amazing people, all who were interested in improving performance – of themselves, their units, and the Coast Guard.

Aug. 3, 2021

Nominate your colleague for the 2021 Charles E. Swaringen, Jr., Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Human Performance Technology

Plus, meet Coast Guard civilian Martha Stewart, who received the 2020 Swaringen award. She credits her own mentor with helping her become an emissary for HPT.

High resolution photograph of Danmark in 1945 under a full spread of canvas. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 30, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Danmark—the friend-ship between Denmark and the Coast Guard

How did a ship without a nation become a training platform for the U.S. Coast Guard?

Lt. Col. David Chapman’s expectant wife, Jaime, oversees movers as they pack their household goods May 20, 2020.

July 29, 2021

Moving Delays? You might qualify for an Inconvenience Claim

Learn how and when to file an Inconvenience Claim

The US Coast Guard Cutter Maple crew participate in a towing exercise with the HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571), a Royal Danish Navy Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel and the FNS Fulmar (P740), a French Navy patrol vessel, near Greenland, June 21, 2021. Deployed forces demonstrated U.S. Coast Guard capabilities to build partner capacity and expertise in search and rescue, incident management, and marine environmental response. These efforts solidify key strategic relationships while achieving mutual Danish, Greenlandic, and U.S. goals in the North American Atlantic Arctic and Northwest Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jose Hernandez)

July 29, 2021

Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel in Newport, Ore., and more

Frontline Focus: U.S. Coast Guard Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel in Newport, Ore., The U.S. Coast Guard participated in Exercise Argus, strengthened Arctic partnerships, The Coast Guard First District responds to report of dielectric fluid leak in New Rochelle, N.Y., Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew rescued three individuals from Chilkat River in Kodiak, Alaska, Coast Guard searching for two overdue mariners off Santa Rita, Guam