Nov. 24, 2021

TRICARE open season ends Dec. 13

TRICARE open season is the annual period when you can enroll in or change your health care coverage for the next year. In 2021, TRICARE open season begins Nov. 8 and ends Dec. 13. Any enrollment changes you make will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022. Open season applies to anyone enrolled in or eligible for a TRICARE Prime option or TRICARE Select.

Nov. 24, 2021

BZ: United States Merchant Marine Academy wins Secretaries Cup, and more

BZ: United States Merchant Marine Academy wins Secretaries Cup, Nominations for 2021 DHS Chief Financial Officer Awards due, MOCTC article appears in Journal of Military Learning, Crew of the Coast Guard Station St. Louis

Nov. 22, 2021

Here’s how to access your military records as the Coast Guard transitions to new record management system 

The Coast Guard is currently transitioning the Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) previously known as the EI-PDR, to its new Human Resource Data Base, the Interactive Personnel Electronics Records Management System (iPERMS). iPERMS will improve Records Management and provide a compliant electronic records management of military human resource

Nov. 19, 2021

Virtual Event: Native American Heritage Month Celebration

"Grounded in Tradition, Resilient in Spirit" with PaaWee Rivera, Senior Advisor to the White House Office if Intergovernmental Affairs & Director of Tribal Affairs

Nov. 19, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Catching the rumrunners—Coast Guard adopts new technology during Prohibition

[Prohibition] was a hard unremitting war with few of the rewards normally accompanying performance of such duty. Yet under the law, the Coast Guard had no alternative but to conduct it with zeal and dedication, utilizing all the resources at its command. The story of the “Noble Experiment” is in large part a Coast Guard story.    Commandant Edwin

Nov. 18, 2021

BZ: Putting training to the test, 2021 recipients of the Captain Frank A. Erickson and Commander Elmer F. Stone Aviation Awards, Coast Guard honors fallen, Apply for grants

Bravo Zulu to A-school students at TRACEN Yorktown! Boatswain’s mate A-school students and instructors at Training Center (TRACEN) Yorktown diverted from their studies Oct. 20 to respond to two search and rescue cases. While conducting two-boat towing operations, on the York River, students and crew of a 38-foot training boat observed a pontoon

Nov. 17, 2021

Coast Guard Inspirational Leadership Awards seeking 2022 nominations

Resources for how to submit the most impactful nomination package for your shipmates 

Nov. 15, 2021

Coast Guard drones can see underwater and inside vessels during response to hurricanes and extreme weather events

Unmanned aircraft systems big and serve as a response powerhouse

Nov. 12, 2021

LANT Area Members: it’s your turn to receive your electronic health record

MHS GENESIS is live. Here’s what to expect.

Nov. 12, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Harold Tantaquidgeon, Chief Boatswain’s Mate and Chief of the Mohegans

Prohibition was an era of illicit liquor, bootleggers, and adventure on the high seas, most notably on the East Coast. It became illegal to produce, sell, or transport liquor for consumption on Jan. 17, 1920. The United States Coast Guard had its share of the action searching for bootleggers offshore and along the U.S. coastline and inland