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Chief Petty Officer Joseph Greely (left) from Coast Guard Cutter Charles Moulthrope instructs then Petty Officer 1st Class Collin Strange as they conduct training in the cutter’s small boat in the Atlantic on April 12, 2021. Strange, an operations specialist, is the winner of the 2022 Hopley Yeaton Enlisted Officer Superior Cutterman award. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sydney Niemi/Released)

Dec. 29, 2022

2022 Hopley Yeaton Awards winners announced 

Coast Guard “Oscars” recognize cutter excellence and superior cutterman 

Coast Guard Research and Development Center personnel test an unmanned maritime system near the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The RDC tested the UMS and other unmanned systems that have the potential to be force multipliers for the Coast Guard, supplementing forces and providing increased maritime domain awareness in the Arctic. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Meredith Manning

Dec. 28, 2022

Coast Guard celebrates 50 years of research and development 

Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) plans open house, new book, commemorative coin.

Lt. Clara Dahill-Baue attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Portugal Conference in August 2022. (MIT photo)

Dec. 27, 2022

Coast Guard officer represents alma mater at MIT Conference in Portugal

MIT grad attended conference that highlighted research projects that focused on space and ocean engineering applications.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jake Flores, maritime enforcement specialist at Maritime Safety & Security Team Houston and 2022 USO Service Member of the Year honoree, beams during a ceremony in Houston, Texas, Dec. 1, 2022. Flores’s command nominated him for the award for jumping into the Rio Grande to save a drowning baby during a patrol on June 2, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Corinne Zilnicki)

Dec. 26, 2022

‘Heroic, humble’ Coast Guardsman selected as 2022 USO Service Member of the Year 

Putting others' lives before his own, a true Coast Guardsman

Flying Santa visiting Station Portsmouth Harbor (New Hampshire) in 2015. (Courtesy Friends of Flying Santa)

Dec. 23, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Lighthouses and the history of ‘The Flying Santa’

The Flying Santa, delivering gifts for more than 90 years.

U. S. Life-Saving Service Keeper Benjamin Dailey. Credit: USCG.

Dec. 22, 2022

Lifesaving crew rescue 9 from the barkentine Ephraim Williams just before Christmas 1884 

Cape Hatteras Station performs one of the most heroic feats of the Life-Saving Service. 

An unfinished common area located between housing units at the Marina Village Housing Complex in the sunlight, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Mrs. Linda Papp, spouse of Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp, accompanied her husband on a visit to the West Coast and toured housing units in the San Francisco Bay Area to evaluate the needs of Coast Guardsmen and their families as part of the Year of the Coast Guard Family program. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Levi Read.

Dec. 19, 2022

2023 BAH rates are out and will take effect New Years Day

On average, BAH rates will increase 12. 1% 

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) crew prepare to moor as the Stratton returned to homeport on Base Alameda, Calif., Nov. 23, 2022. Stratton recently concluded a 97-day multi-mission deployment to the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Upshaw).

Dec. 19, 2022

Special Duty Pay updates announced  

Read on about changes to the SDP/AP list.

Members from Station Eaton’s Neck, New York, review tactical procedures with Suffolk County, New York Police Department prior to clearing the ferry PT Barnum, during Sector Long Island Sound’s AMSTEP exercise in October 2022.

Dec. 19, 2022

Building partnerships through required area exercises to keep the port safe

Sector Long Island Sound and port partners exercises how to respond to an emergency on the water, put that plan to use! 

Ray Evans receiving his Navy Cross Medal for action seen at Point Cruz. Evans had already received a battlefield advancement to chief petty officer and later received an officer’s commission. (Coast Guard Collection)

Dec. 16, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Ray Evans—Hero of Guadalcanal who enlisted and served with Douglas Munro 80 years ago

Chief Ray Evans served with the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient, and is now FRC namesake!