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A Coast Guard family reuniting with their loved one and demonstrating how CGMA's financial support can assist more Coast Guard families in these touching moments. (This photo is courtesy of CGMA)

June 20, 2022

Financial resources for your PCS

Coast Guard Mutual Assistance provides loans and grant resources to aide your PCS transition

Auxiliarist Tiffany Townsend at the helm of the Auxiliary vessel Silver Charm, conducting a pre-mission equipment check. Photo by Coast Guard Auxiliarist Roger Bazeley.

June 20, 2022

Top 5 reasons you should join the Coast Guard Auxiliary

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will celebrate with its 83rd birthday June 23, and there has never been a better time to join America’s Volunteer Guardians. The Auxiliary encourages enthusiastic and motivated people help make an impact keeping America’s waterways and the boating public safe. As an integral force multiplier for Team Coast Guard, the

Coast Guard recruits in company Delta-201 receive orders to their first duty stations at the Fisherman’s Memorial in Cape May, New Jersey.

June 15, 2022

Earn $500 by getting a friend to join the Coast Guard

New recruiting initiative pays cash for any enlisted member you help bring in

Coast Guard moves from Skype to Teams

June 13, 2022

Coast Guard says goodbye to Skype  

Application will be unavailable after June 15

Before and after pictures of Petty Officer 2nd Class Tommy Aguon during his weigh loss and bodybuilding journey. Photo courtesy Petty Officer 2nd Class Tommy Aguon

June 13, 2022

A petty officer’s journey to being healthier 

From 300 pounds to a chiseled bodybuilder.

U.S. Coast Guard spouse Ivonne Ontiveros-Lopez (middle) receives the 2021 Wanda Allen-Yearout Ombudsman of the Year award, presented by Wanda Allen-Yearout, herself, (left) and Adm. Linda Fagan, Coast Guard commandant, (right) at the Senior Leadership Conference at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2022. The Wanda Allen-Yearout OOY Award Program annually recognizes a unit ombudsman that has demonstrated the greatest commitment serving as a Coast Guard Ombudsman. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ronald Hodges)

June 8, 2022

The 2021 Wanda Allen-Yearout Ombudsman of the Year announced, district winners recognized 

Ivonne Ontiveros-Lopez became the 36th awardee and newest recipient of the Ombudsman of the Year award.  

Similar in size and appearance to the Manning, Revenue Cutter McCulloch moored at Kodiak to provide humanitarian support after the volcanic eruption, June 6-9, 1912. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 8, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part III. Modern world’s largest eruption and the Coast Guard responds!

The three-part conclusion of the three day eruption in what would become Katmai National Park in 1918.

11. Native Alaskan homes near Katmai Village, Alaska, buried in volcanic ash and dust, June 7, 1912. (USGS)

June 7, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part II. The Apocalypse comes to Kodiak and the Revenue Cutter Service

Part 2 of the Katmai eruption

Profile view of the Revenue Cutter Manning at about the time of the eruption of the Katmai Volcano, June 6, 1912. (U.S. Coast Guard)

June 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part I. America’s worst volcanic eruption and the Revenue Cutter’s humanitarian response

The Revenue Cutter Service was one of the agencies that combined to create to the U.S. Coast Guard. This is their story

Official headshot of Michael J. Swierc, who enlisted in the Coast Guard on Aug. 11, 1942, and trained as a motor machinist’s mate before deploying overseas for the first wave of the D-Day invasion. Swierc, who turned 100 years old on Nov. 6, 2021, received the Bronze Star Medal for helping save 126 Allied troops from drowning in the English Channel on June 6, 1944. (U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Pam Manka)

June 3, 2022

The Long Blue Line: D-Day, 1944—MoMM2 Swierc and the heroic saviors of CG-16

The night of the invasion was unbelievable. There was a continuous flash of light in the sky and we could hear the bombs. It was nonstop fire.   - Motor Machinist’s Mate Second Class Mike SwiercNearly 80 years have passed since Motor Machinist’s Mate Second Class Michael J. Swierc served on the Coast Guard Cutter CG-16 off Utah Beach during the