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An unfinished common area located between housing units at the Marina Village Housing Complex in the sunlight, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Mrs. Linda Papp, spouse of Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp, accompanied her husband on a visit to the West Coast and toured housing units in the San Francisco Bay Area to evaluate the needs of Coast Guardsmen and their families as part of the Year of the Coast Guard Family program. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Levi Read.

Dec. 19, 2022

2023 BAH rates are out and will take effect New Years Day

On average, BAH rates will increase 12. 1% 

Ray Evans receiving his Navy Cross Medal for action seen at Point Cruz. Evans had already received a battlefield advancement to chief petty officer and later received an officer’s commission. (Coast Guard Collection)

Dec. 16, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Ray Evans—Hero of Guadalcanal who enlisted and served with Douglas Munro 80 years ago

Chief Ray Evans served with the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient, and is now FRC namesake!

Chaplain Capt. David Morris speaks at an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training shop at the Lowery A. Woodall Advanced Technology Center in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Jan. 25, 2017. Morris was one of three chaplains to speak to the group. Morris has been teaching at the ASIST shop since he commissioned. (Mississippi National Guard photo by Spc. Christopher Shannon, 102d Public Affairs Detachment)

Dec. 15, 2022

Members learn to teach peers about suicide intervention

Building a network of support through training to teach the skills to prevent suicide and intervene if needed.

Photos like these, shared by individual Coast Guard members and posted to unit social media accounts during 2022, could earn members public affairs awards. The Coast Guard Public Affairs Program is accepting submissions for the 2022 Chief Journalist Alex Haley awards until Feb 15, 2023.

Dec. 14, 2022

Your photos and videos could earn you awards

Make sure your products are uploaded in DVIDS to be competitive.

A cadet meets with their assigned sponsor family, photo uploaded Dec. 2, 2022, New London, Connecticut. The Academy's Sponsor Family Program provides cadets with the opportunity to have a home-away-from-home. (courtesy image)

Dec. 14, 2022

Creating home-away-from-home experience for academy cadets 

Local New London families volunteer to ‘adopt’ academy cadets. 

Master Chief David Cahilly and his wife, Brooke, attend the Chief’s Call to Indoctrination dinner at Fort Eustis, Virginia, May 18, 2012. Cahilly serves as the damage controlman rating force master chief for the Coast Guard, ensuring the DC enlisted workforce is represented at the headquarters level. (USCG photo)

Dec. 13, 2022

Meet Your RFMC Series: Spotlight on damage controlman

Master Chief Petty Officer Dave Cahilly brings a wealth of training experience to the post.

Recruits from boot camp company Quebec-200 graduate Coast Guard boot camp at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., June 18, 2021. Training Center Cape May’s mission is to transform the recruits of today into the Coast Guard men and women of tomorrow, while providing superior mission support to our tenant commands. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Christian Lower)

Dec. 12, 2022

Coast Guard inaugurates new ethos at Cape May

Tango-202 becomes the first graduating company to recite new ethos.

Second Lt. Harry G. Hamlet (top row, left) standing above another future commandant, Ellsworth Bertholf, aboard Revenue Cutter Bear during its famous Overland Rescue deployment, 1897-98 (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)

Dec. 9, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Harry Hamlet’s rescue of Navy convoy 100 years ago!

Shortly after World War I, a remarkable event demonstrated the caliber of Coast Guard officers.

Recruits from boot camp company Quebec-200 graduate Coast Guard boot camp at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., June 18, 2021. Training Center Cape May’s mission is to transform the recruits of today into the Coast Guard men and women of tomorrow, while providing superior mission support to our tenant commands. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Christian Lower)

Dec. 5, 2022

We take a look at the recruiting situation for the US Coast Guard

Transcript of interview with Federal News Network and Capt. Richter Tipton.

Radioman First Class Benjamin Bottoms in flight gear posed in front of a military trainer aircraft. (Family of Olga Bottoms Richardson)

Dec. 2, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Benjamin Bottoms—Arctic aviator, wartime hero served with Lt. John Prichard

Enlisted aviation hero and namesake for new FRC.