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Painting of the sinking of Cutter Tampa by the German submarine UB-91 painted by noted marine artist John Wisinski. (Coast Guard Collection)

April 9, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Combat Operations in World War I

World War I served as a baptism of fire for the Coast Guard. During the war, the Coast Guard performed its traditional missions of search and rescue, maritime interdiction, law enforcement, humanitarian response, and port security.

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April 8, 2021

Event: Small businesses pitch innovative tech ideas

The DHS Small Business Innovation Research Program fosters new processes, products and technologies that support DHS missions

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Kathleen Moore interdicts a vessel Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, carrying more than 1,170 pounds of cocaine. The go-fast style vessel was carrying cocaine worth an estimated wholesale value of more than $18 million. U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Cutter Kathleen Moore.

April 6, 2021

Cuttermen: New tech will make it easier to track traffickers

The Coast Guard is working on some major updates to SeaWatch, the situational awareness command and control system on most white hulls.

Port of San Diego Commissioner Marshall Merrifield, Rep. Mike Levin, Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Mission Support Vice Adm. Michael F. McAllister, Rep. John Garamendi, Chancellor of the University of California San Diego Pradeep Khosla, and Rep. Scott Peters take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Jan. 24, 2020. The Coast Guard entered into an agreement with Scripps Institution of Oceanography to establish the Blue Technology Center of Expertise, which will provide opportunities for rapid identification and integration of new blue technologies into current Coast Guard capabilities. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Kelley.)

April 6, 2021

Operation Innovation: Blue Tech Center of Expertise seeks technology solutions 

What is blue technology and how is the Coast Guard using it?

April 2, 2021

All Hands Briefer: This week's top news

Ladies and Gentlemen,Below, please find the weekly All Hands Briefer (AHB), which provides key announcements and updates from this week. Have a great weekend!Top News Care, Inform, Ask: new resource to respond to victims of assault   National virtual event: "Bring Your Children to OUR Work Day" New column! Frontline Focus Another new column! Bravo

Ensign Kirk M. Eastman from Sector Puget Sound, Enforcement Division holding the framed Maritime Security and Response Operations Excellence Award in February 2021.

March 31, 2021

MSRO Excellence awardees recognized

The Captain Carden and Boatswain's Mate First Class Cullen Maritime Security and Response Operations (MSRO) Excellence awardees recognized

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A helicopter crew from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville trains in the St. Johns River, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. HITRON hosted a production crew for the Military channel's Modern Sniper. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Hulme)

March 29, 2021

HITRON History Series: David W. Kunkel, Rear Admiral USCG (Ret.)

Learn more about HITRON.

Official Service photo of namesake 175-foot Keeper-Class buoy tender Coast Guard Cutter Barbara Mabrity. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

March 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Barbara Mabrity—Long-time Lighthouse Keeper and Hurricane Heroine

Barbara Mabrity, or someone from her family, kept the Key West Light for 82 of its 89 years of manned operation. And, for most of the Mabrity years, a female family member oversaw operation of the light.

The 82-foot patrol boats of Squadron One (RONONE) deploying from Subic Bay in the Philippines to the theater of operations in Vietnam. (U.S. Coast Guard)

March 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The Coast Guard in Vietnam-a remembrance

Fifty-five years after the Coast Guard joined the fight in Vietnam, we commemorate those servicemembers who went in harm’s way, several of whom paid with their lives in a land far from home.

Lt j.g. Lara Dallman-Weiss (left) and Lt j.g. Nicole "Nikki" Barnes ( right at the tiller) members at U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, train for the USA Women's 470 Summer Olympics March 1, 2020, Miami, Fl. Dallman-Weiss and Barnes have trained very hard to become USA Women's 470 Contenders. ( U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

March 25, 2021

LTJG makes service history, will compete in Tokyo Olympics 

Lt. j.g. Nikole Barnes sails into the upcoming summer Olympics

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