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Oct. 17, 2025

Postponed: Reserve SWE

The October Reserve Service Wide Exam is postponed until January 2026.

Sept. 30, 2025

Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month

We are all in this together and must stand the watch as one force!

One of Chatham Air Station’s HS-1 flying boats dropping its payload of two wing-mounted bombs. (Courtesy of the National Archives)

Sept. 26, 2025

The Long Blue Line: Phil Eaton—Coast Guard’s Winged Warrior of World War I

Rear Admiral Philip Eaton was one of thousands of Coast Guard aviators who have made their mark as members of the service’s long blue line.

Sept. 25, 2025

Ready, Set, ReSWE!!

The Reserve electronic Service Wide Exam is coming for AET, ME, MST & SK rates this fall.

Officers of the Revenue Cutter Bear pose for a group photo with Samuel Call standing in the back row far right. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Sept. 25, 2025

The Long Blue Line: Surgeon Call—Arctic Hero of the Coast Guard and Public Health Service!

Samuel J. Call’s contributions epitomized the finest in officers of the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. Coast Guard, practicing the latter’s core values of “Honor, respect and devotion to duty.”

An HNS-1 helicopter in flight. (Coast Guard Historian’s Office)

Sept. 19, 2025

Erickson—Coast Guard pioneer of helicopter flight 80 years ago!

80 years ago, Coast Guard pilot LCDR Frank A. Erickson's revolutionized search and rescue.

Sept. 19, 2025

Special Duty Pay (SDP) and Assignment Pay (AP) updated for 2026

While some SDP/AP pay levels decline, Coast Guard adds three new types.

FRC Terrell Horne underway in its home waters of Southern California. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Sept. 19, 2025

Remembering BMCS Terrell Horne—father, friend, hero, mentor, and FRC namesake

"We need selfless patriots who will make the decision every day to answer the nation’s call, to throw themselves into the breach against every manner of evil that might confront us, and will state to their fellow citizens, ‘I will be your shield, I will stand the watch.’ Terrell Horne was such a patriot.” - Adm. Bob Papp Robert J. Papp Jr. (24th Commandant).