Jan. 12, 2022

New system for reserves: Reserve Requirements Generation System  

The forthcoming system considers Coast Guard operational plans, authorities, policy, and strategy to conduct a mission-based quantitative calculation of workload and workforce capacity for the reserve. 

Jan. 11, 2022

Sector Jacksonville reserve lends support to the U.S. Space Program 

Coast Guard reserve members assists with space launches.

Jan. 7, 2022

PY22 ADPL Lieutenant Selection Board Results

Congratulations to all recommended for promotion!

Jan. 7, 2022

We're so glad 2021 is done, read these 2022 Watch Logs for fun

New Year's Day watch log entry poems from around the Coast Guard

Jan. 6, 2022

Hopley Yeaton Award winners; 2021 Coast Guard Engineer of the Year; 2020 Area Maritime Security Committee of the Year Award; Niagara Falls recovery 

Hopley Yeaton Award winners named. The Douglas Munro Chapter of the Surface Navy Association (SNA) announced the recipients of the 2021 Hopley Yeaton Cutter Excellence and Superior Cutterman Awards. The Hopley Yeaton awards, which honor the Coast Guard’s legendary sea-going forbearer, Capt. Hopley Yeaton, are given annually to celebrate and

Jan. 3, 2022

24 hours in every day = full-time hustle 

​Courtesy Coast Guard Reservist Magazine Reservists of any military branch know the value of time management. Balancing family obligations, civilian employment, and a military career takes discipline and dedication.   One Coast Guard reservist has a pattern of taking on challenges using a time-bending technique.  Cmdr. Loraleigh Hild graduated from

Dec. 29, 2021

CG Portal going online  

The Coast Guard plans to soon begin migrating the Coast Guard Portal (CG Portal) to a secure cloud-based environment that users will eventually be able to access from mobile and personal devices.  The C5I Service Center (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber and Intelligence) estimates it will take at least a year to relocate the CG

Dec. 24, 2021

Chicago's Christmas Ship delivers 1,200 trees to at-risk youth and families

Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw docks at Navy Pier as part of annual event bringing trees to families.

Dec. 17, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The Persian Gulf War—a female officer’s experience 30 years ago

During 1990, I was assigned as the training officer for Reserve Unit Syracuse, New York. One of my responsibilities was to ensure that each member of the unit had committed to an appropriate two-week training period. That year, the district office in Cleveland, Ohio, forwarded a request to fill 25 billets at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., for a

Dec. 16, 2021

2 Coast Guard civilians receive highest award for senior executives; the perfect fit—how the Industrial Production Facility at Alameda collaborated to help Coast Guard Cutter Waesche get underway; meritorious advancement.

2 Coast Guard civilians receive the highest award bestowed upon senior executives. Congratulations to Coast Guard civilian senior executives Gary Rasicot and Calvin Lederer who were recognized for the 2021 Presidential Rank Award (PRA) program. The PRA program was established in 1978 and is one of the highest awards the President of the United