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A Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder small boat crew takes a moment for a photo in the Davis Strait Aug. 13, 2021. Snyder worked alongside Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Harry Dewolf and HMCS Goose Bay in Operation Nanook to enhance collective abilities to respond to safety and security issues in the High North through air and maritime presence activities, maritime domain defense, and security exercises. Top Row (left to right): Petty Officer 2nd Class Constance Jennings, Ensign Charlotte Braman, Petty Officer 2nd Class Danielle Wilson. Bottom Row (left to right): Petty Officer 2nd Class Courtney Swink, Ensign Emma Compagnoni, Petty Officer 2nd Class Gayle Buchanan (U.S. Coast Guard photo by USCGC Richard Snyder)

Sept. 17, 2021

Faces of Snyder: The Women who "Never Yield"

Meet the women aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder

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.

Portrait of Adm. James Gracey, USCG Retired

Sept. 13, 2021

Fair winds: Adm. James S. Gracey

As Coast Guard Commandant from 1982 to 1986 Adm. Gracey presided over, and drove, significant change in the service. He also led the armed forces in the integration of women, both officer and enlisted.

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

Chaplain Doyle Allen leading aircrews from around the CG (to include the Atlantic Area Commander and CMC) in a prayer for courage, strength, and protection – just moments before launching on recovery missions after Hurricane Ida passage.

Sept. 10, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard works to reopen ports, waterways throughout southeast Louisiana following Hurricane Ida, and more.

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard works to reopen ports, waterways throughout southeast Louisiana. following Hurricane Ida; Coast Guard continues to support Hurricane Ida recovery efforts; Coast Guard rescues two kayakers off Maui, Hawaii; Coast Guard implements underway safety initiative for small passenger vessels operating in California waters

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

The bridge crew takes a moment for a photo on the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder in the Davis Strait on Aug. 9, 2021. Snyder worked alongside the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba, the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS Harry Dewolf , and HMCS Goose Bay in Operation Nanook to enhance collective abilities to respond to safety and security issues in the High North through air and maritime presence activities, maritime domain defense, and security exercises. Left to right: Petty Officers 2nd Class Gayle Buchanan, and Zachary Weber, Seaman Kenan Carter, Ensign JT Cox. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder)

Sept. 10, 2021

Faces of Snyder: The Navigation Team

Meet the navigation crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Snyder

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.