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A signed photo of Lt. Clarence Samuels commanding a Coast Guard vessel near the end of World War II. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

Sept. 16, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Clarence Samuels—the U.S. military’s Afro-Latino color barrier buster!

Panamanian born, here the story of Clarence Lorenzo Samuels, the first minority to command a federal ship.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Carl Taylor, an information systems technician assigned to Electronics Support Detachment Mayport, Florida, reimages newly assigned laptops delivered to Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Florida, April 5, 2022. Reimaging new computers involves completely wiping the hard drive, and installing the operating system along with Coast Guard-specific applications and security-related upgrades. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena)

Sept. 15, 2022

ESD supervisors will be re-programmed to senior enlisted in the upcoming assignment year

ESD supervisor positions opening up to senior enlisted ETs and ITs.

Lt. Cmdr. Samuel Pemberton (left), Petty Officer 2nd Class James Peragine, and Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Van Ginkel, the Endgame59 aircrew, received the U.S. Interdiction Maritime Interdiction Award Feb. 18, 2022, for their successful interdiction mission in August 2021. (USCG photo)

Sept. 14, 2022

HITRON received recognition at 2021 U.S. Interdiction Coordinator Awards 

A seasoned crew faced a challenging drug interdiction in the Caribbean Sea.

Coast Guard Petty Officers Third Class Third Class Joanalicia Ramirez and Miguel Caceres, both machinery technicians, work together with their unit to build an engine on a cutter moored at Base Portsmouth, Nov. 16, 2021, in Portsmouth, Virginia. The unit, called the Maintenance Augmentation Team, or MAT, provides mechanical and maintenance support for the cutters in the area. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Emily Velez)

Sept. 13, 2022

Tools you can use to help manage conflict in the workplace

Learn about different approaches to conflict resolution.

The Blended Retirement System (BRS) blends the traditional legacy retirement pension, also known as a defined benefit, with a defined contribution benefit into a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)

Sept. 12, 2022

Coast Guard Financial Readiness Training: What it means to be ‘vested’ in The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)

Invest in yourself, the Thrift Savings Plan makes it easy

One of the Coast Guard's first Hispanic American officers served in World War II, and has a Fast Response Cutter named for him.

Sept. 9, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Joseph Tezanos—wartime lifesaver, Hispanic-American trailblazer and FRC namesake

World War II hero goes on to become one of the first Hispanic American officers in the United States Coast Guard.

Research and Development Center (RDC) interns (from right) Victoria Beke, Midshipman Ryan Grafman, Stephanie Searing and Connor Bluedorn learn about how search and rescue missions are conducted at Station New London before boarding a 45-foot response boat medium to see the station’s area of operation on the Thames River in July 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Sept. 8, 2022

Research interns receive crash course in Coast Guard missions

RDC internships offer research opportunities and highlight careers in the service

Members serving aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous used a 3D printer to replace broken and cracked handles on the Y-gate, which is a part which allows a fireplug to feed two separate hoses. The handles are used to direct the flow of water. (U.S. Coast Guard photo.)

Sept. 6, 2022

Tell the Coast Guard how 3D Printing could help your mission 

Send your ideas to the Pilot 3D Printing Shop via CG_Ideas@Work by Sep. 30.

Painting of Alexander Fraser showing his home town of New York and the cutter Harriet Lane in the background. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

Sept. 2, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Captain Fraser—Coast Guard’s forgotten visionary and first commandant

. . . [Captain] Fraser opposed an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and this official’s hostility proved fatal to the Captain’s long career: by an arbitrary abuse of power, the administration in 1856 revoked his commission summarily. Both indefensible and stupid, this action resulted wholly from personal animosity and cost the government one of

Retired Coast Guard Capt. Daniel C. Burbank, former NASA astronaut, is returning to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to serve as a Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering program. Burbank is one of two Coast Guard officers to have ever served as an astronaut. As a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and one long duration mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), he has logged a total of 188 days in space. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Thieme)

Aug. 30, 2022

Former astronaut returns to teach at U.S. Coast Guard Academy 

After walking in space, former CGA graduate returns to teach future Coast Guard officers.