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Coast Guard Core Values

Feb. 6, 2024

Strengthening Coast Guard culture

The Coast Guard establishes an Enterprise Victim Advocate, encourages reporting by removing barriers, and more to address sexual assault and harassment in the Service.

The Judge Advocate General publishes a periodic Good Order and Discipline (GOAD) Report of statistics and narrative descriptions of discipline to inform the Coast Guard community and reinforce Coast Guard standards.

Jan. 29, 2024

Good Order and Discipline: Fiscal Year 2023 Fourth Quarter report

Leaders throughout the Coast Guard are encouraged to share this message with their units and talk about the importance of adhering to the Coast Guard’s core values.

A portrait of Silver Star Medal recipient Seaman First Class Rollin Fritch, one of the heroic Coast Guardsmen to die on board the Callaway during the kamikaze attack on January 8, 1945. (Courtesy of the Fritch family) Callaway in camouflage paint scheme during World War II. (U.S. Navy)

Jan. 26, 2024

Rollin Fritch — Silver Star hero of Attack Transport Callaway

“Rollin Fritch’s devotion to duty reminds us how to conduct ourselves aboard this ship. He manned his gun until the very end.” — Lt. Jason McCarthey, Cutter Rollin Fritch’s first commanding officer

A graphic with a white background and a blue rectangular border. In the middle of the graphic is the text "DES" and underneath that in smaller print is "Disability Evaluation System:

Jan. 10, 2024

When Plans Change: Facing Medical Separation in the Coast Guard

Office of Member Advocacy is your lifeline when faced with medical separation challenges.

Two graphic images superimposed with one another. At the bottom it reads "The Long Blue Line." The image on the left is a house with bells and trees and says "Seasons Greetings." On the right, is a Large posiedon like charachter and it says "A salty, hearty, merry christmas. From the Onondaga."

Dec. 22, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Merry Christmas from the Galley! — the Coast Guard’s collection of vintage Christmas Menus

The Coast Guard Historian’s Office recently unearthed several shipboard Christmas menus in its Archives and Special Collections. They are few, but rather colorful and provide insight into a bright spot in an otherwise monotonous lifestyle at sea.

Photograph of Coast Guard pilot, LT John C. Vukic, also known as “Big John.” A Coast Guard PBM-5G jet assisted take-off using JATO rockets. This image shows a sister aircraft to #84738, which flew the Swatow mission. (Coast Guard Aviation Association) An aerial photograph of the USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) underway during the 1950s.

Dec. 15, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Rescue and sacrifice — PBM-G5 #84738’s Korean War rescue 70 years ago

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the events that transpired in the Formosa Straits – we remember the courageous Coast Guard and Navy men who perished.

3 Cost Guard Academy cadets in their football uniforms posing in front of the camera showing off their new uniforms.

Nov. 9, 2023

Coast Guard Academy unveils new football uniforms in honor of Douglas Munro

The uniforms will be worn for the first time at the annual Secretaries Cup football game this Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2023.

The Coast Guard Insider Threat Program (CGITP), is a multifaceted initiative designed to prevent, detect, mitigate, and respond to insider threats. As the saying goes, "Trust but verify," and in an era of increasing cybersecurity and national security concerns, it's more than a motto to admire but rather a call to action.

Nov. 3, 2023

Guarding Against the Unseen: The U.S. Coast Guard's Insider Threat Program

Protecting America's shield from within.

Photograph of the 75-foot patrol boat CG-249 from around the time of the James Alderman incident. (From The Hanging at Bahia Mar by Hal Caudle)

Sept. 1, 2023

The Long Blue Line: The infamous James Alderman and redemption of CG-249 100 years ago

The next morning, they would return to Fort Lauderdale and resume the grind of chasing rum runners. 

A 1942 photograph of German submarine U-123 attacking the steamship Cyclops. (uboatarchives.net)

Aug. 25, 2023

The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard’s “Corsair Fleet” of World War II

Volunteer crews aboard a fleet of civilian sailing yachts hunted U-boats in the Atlantic.