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Photograph of Keeper Samuel Amalu scanning the horizon from one of his many lighthouses. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

May 13, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Samuel Amalu and Manuel Ferriera—Hawaiian Keepers of the Light

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, here is a story about Hawaiian lighthouse keepers.

Capt. Brian M Kostecki, resource management division chief of Coast Guard District 7, Capt. Mark R. Vlaun, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Chief Warrant Officer 3 John P. Chandler, commanding officer of Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral break ground at the groundbreaking ceremony in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 2, 2022. The 21,000 square-foot search and rescue building is projected to be completed by 2024. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Cameron Snell)

May 12, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs crew member from fishing vessel, and more. 

Coast Guard medevacs crew member from fishing vessel  Coast Guard Station South Padre Island crew rescued a dolphin caught in an illegal fishing net; Coast Guard repatriates 78 people to Haiti; and Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral holds groundbreaking ceremony.

Recruits from boot camp company Oscar-200 graduate Coast Guard boot camp at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., June 4, 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 Petty Officer 2nd Class Shannon Kearney)

May 11, 2022

Here’s your chance to grow the Coast Guard’s workforce

Coast Guard leans in to maximize recruits

Petty Officer 1st Class Lecia Mauge-Chan, an operations specialist, poses for an environmental portrait in the command center of Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads in Portsmouth, Virginia, March 20, 2019. Operations specialist is one of four critical ratings in Coast Guard recruiting efforts. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Matt Sprague.

May 11, 2022

Hiring and retention bonuses for operational specialists

Operations specialists keep U.S. Coast Guard executing the mission

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

May 10, 2022

FSMS: Weekly progress report from the Incident Command

Three new initiatives you need to know about this week

Portrait of William Tatham in 1779. Tatham was a contemporary and frequent correspondent of the president. He was universally acknowledged as brilliant, but could be abrasive and arrogant. He quickly alienated the other two commissioners, Jonathan Price and William Coles, working on the 1806 survey. They ended up submitting separate reports, and only Coles and Price produced the chart. (North Carolina Historical Review, July 1972)

May 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Death by hurricane of Coast Survey Cutters Diligence and Governor Williams 216 years ago

A busy hurricane season of 1806.

International partners gather to discuss how to to globally strengthen cyber resiliency against threats to the Marine Transportation System, May 10-12, 2022 in Long Beach, Calif.

May 5, 2022

EVENT: Register for the first ever Global MTS Symposium

Hosted by USCG and the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in partnership with Denmark and the Netherlands

Prinsendam cruising the sheltered waters near Skagway, Alaska, before her fire and subsequent loss. (Alaska State Library)

April 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!

Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,

The commissioning crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr., Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's sixth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, stand at attention as the ship is placed into service at a ceremony held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, April 21, 2022. The cutter's namesake is Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Clarence Sutphin Jr., a New York native who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1941 to 1945. During this time, Sutphin served as landing craft coxswain on board the attack transport USS Leonard Wood (APA 12), a landing craft supporting our troops in North Africa and Sicily. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Schultz)

April 28, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter, and more.

Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter; Coast Guard offloads $11.7 million in cocaine, transfers 6 suspected smugglers in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard Cutter Legare crew stops drugs, rescues Colombian fishers on 3-month patrol in Eastern Pacific, Caribbean; and Coast Guard hosts Army Corps of Engineers for site survey and future projects in San Francisco Bay.

Angelica Williams, 86th Force Support Squadron Airman and Family Readiness Center community readiness consultant, helps students with a money management goal sheet during the “Youth Saves Event,” at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Feb. 25, 2019. Williams said as the children wrote down their short and long term goals she emphasized with them that no matter how they use their money they should always have a goal with it. The “Youth Saves Event” educates the younger generation on how to build their financial foundation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kristof J. Rixmann)

April 27, 2022

Attend CG SUPRT’s May webinars on kids and money management, identity theft

 Webinars to be held May 3 and May 9 at 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. EDT both days

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