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Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter, active duty recipient of the 2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award, with wife, Jean, at his 2018 advancement ceremony. Photo courtesy Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter.

May 2, 2022

2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award recipients announced

MyCG interviews the active duty and civilian winners 

Prinsendam cruising the sheltered waters near Skagway, Alaska, before her fire and subsequent loss. (Alaska State Library)

April 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!

Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 28, 2022

FSMS: Weekly progress report from the Incident Command

The Coast Guard’s FSMS Transition Incident Command (IC) is looking for volunteers to assist in its mission critical operation. 

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

DHS Secretary’s Awards presented in Seattle

Congratulations to all winners

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

Extreme Rescue: Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew receives DHS Secretary’s Award for Valor 

Congratulations to the Coast Guard's Secretary's Award recipients.

The commissioning crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr., Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's sixth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, stand at attention as the ship is placed into service at a ceremony held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, April 21, 2022. The cutter's namesake is Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Clarence Sutphin Jr., a New York native who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1941 to 1945. During this time, Sutphin served as landing craft coxswain on board the attack transport USS Leonard Wood (APA 12), a landing craft supporting our troops in North Africa and Sicily. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Schultz)

April 28, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter, and more.

Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter; Coast Guard offloads $11.7 million in cocaine, transfers 6 suspected smugglers in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard Cutter Legare crew stops drugs, rescues Colombian fishers on 3-month patrol in Eastern Pacific, Caribbean; and Coast Guard hosts Army Corps of Engineers for site survey and future projects in San Francisco Bay.

Coast Guard tattoo policy graphic

April 28, 2022

Updates to the Tattoo, Body Marking, Body Piercing, and Mutilation Standards

Couple of changes to the manual, check them out.

Petty Officer 1st Class Caleb Noriega, of El Paso, Texas, an instructor with the Coast Guard’s Afloat Training Organization, reviews procedures for proper operation of a P-100 dewatering pump with crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter, during damage control training conducted as part of Command Assessment of Readiness for Training, Sept. 19, 2014. The ATO, part of Force Readiness Command, assesses and prepares shipboard personnel to meet essential operational requirements.

April 26, 2022

Electrician mates, machinery technicians: EPO afloat positions now open to both ratings

Command-endorsed qualification packages will be accepted mid-May to mid-July  

Child Abuse Prevention Month

April 22, 2022

Let’s go all in to end abuse, increase awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. This observance reminds us that our first duty is to our children—their safety, well-being and resilience is a Coast Guard priority.

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 21, 2022

FSMS: Progress report from the Incident Command

The new FSMS Homepage: Navigating to Full Operational Capability has been launched!  This centralized site brings all FSMS tools into one single location. You’ll find continued updates, searchable job aids, demos and discussion boards. If you use FSMS, you’ll want to bookmark this new microsite and spend time familiarizing yourself with all the