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Ensign Kirk M. Eastman from Sector Puget Sound, Enforcement Division holding the framed Maritime Security and Response Operations Excellence Award in February 2021.

March 31, 2021

MSRO Excellence awardees recognized

The Captain Carden and Boatswain's Mate First Class Cullen Maritime Security and Response Operations (MSRO) Excellence awardees recognized

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A helicopter crew from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville trains in the St. Johns River, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. HITRON hosted a production crew for the Military channel's Modern Sniper. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Hulme)

March 29, 2021

HITRON History Series: David W. Kunkel, Rear Admiral USCG (Ret.)

Learn more about HITRON.

Official Service photo of namesake 175-foot Keeper-Class buoy tender Coast Guard Cutter Barbara Mabrity. (U.S. Coast Guard Collection)

March 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Barbara Mabrity—Long-time Lighthouse Keeper and Hurricane Heroine

Barbara Mabrity, or someone from her family, kept the Key West Light for 82 of its 89 years of manned operation. And, for most of the Mabrity years, a female family member oversaw operation of the light.

The 82-foot patrol boats of Squadron One (RONONE) deploying from Subic Bay in the Philippines to the theater of operations in Vietnam. (U.S. Coast Guard)

March 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The Coast Guard in Vietnam-a remembrance

Fifty-five years after the Coast Guard joined the fight in Vietnam, we commemorate those servicemembers who went in harm’s way, several of whom paid with their lives in a land far from home.

March 26, 2021

MyCG app launches PCS Season tab

Make sure you've got the latest news, policy, forms and resources.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bluebell, a 100-foot inland buoy tender home-ported in Portland, Ore., stands wearing their service dress blue uniforms in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month April 3, 2013. The master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard, to raise awareness of sexual assault awareness month, requested that all chief petty officers wear their service dress blue uniforms and the Bluebell's crew took the initiative to each wear it. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Fireman Caleb Porter)

March 26, 2021

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month.

This month we discuss what we can do to eliminate sexual violence in our service. 

The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration program was created to right those wrongs. The commemoration honors all United States veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces from Nov. 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975. We are in the midst of a 50-year anniversary commemoration of that 20-year period of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

March 25, 2021

Mass vaccination sites are helping the U.S. honor Vietnam War veterans

Vietnam War Veteran's Day is March 29. More than 8,000 Coast Guard members served in the war.

Lt j.g. Lara Dallman-Weiss (left) and Lt j.g. Nicole "Nikki" Barnes ( right at the tiller) members at U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, train for the USA Women's 470 Summer Olympics March 1, 2020, Miami, Fl. Dallman-Weiss and Barnes have trained very hard to become USA Women's 470 Contenders. ( U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo)

March 25, 2021

LTJG makes service history, will compete in Tokyo Olympics 

Lt. j.g. Nikole Barnes sails into the upcoming summer Olympics

A Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg 29-foot Response Boat – Small II boat crew approaches the 27-foot boat Aug. 31, 2020, to conduct a safety boarding. Federal law requires uninspected passenger vessels to carry only a maximum of six passengers for hire with a Merchant Mariner Credential. Bareboat charters, when properly applied, transfer complete ownership of a vessel to the charterer as a recreational vessel. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Erik Villa Rodriguez)

March 25, 2021

Recreational boat engine cut-off switch law will improve maritime safety

Beginning April 1, 2021, operators of recreational vessels less than 26 feet in length will be required to use the engine cut-off switch (ECOS) and associated ECOS link (ECOSL).

The women of the U.S. Coast Guard's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and Innovation program in a photo illustration for Women's History Month, 2021. Pictured are: Front row (from left): Meg Tusia, Lt. Anne Newton, Alexandra Swan, D.J. Hastings and Holly Wendelin. Second row: Shalane Regan, Monica Cisternelli, Christine Hansen, Karin Messenger, Julie Dozier, Wendy Chaves, Fideline Rosius, Kellie August, Minh-Thu Phan and Amy Cutting. Back row: Helen Carnes, Lauren Eberly, Christine Mahoney, Lt. j.g. Jennifer Hansen, Petty Officer 1st Class Nicole Kleinsmith, Kim Babcock, Jennifer Ibaven, Judith Connelly, Capt. Kim Guedry, Dr. Benedette Adewale and Lt. Elizabeth Murphy. Not pictured: Margaret Exton, Irene Gonin, Taylor Kall, Rae Mason, Grace Python, Gail Roderick, Anita Trombino, Christine Wadsworth and Cmdr. Michelle Noonan. (U.S. Coast Guard photo illustration.)

March 25, 2021

Women in RDT&E and Innovation help drive Coast Guard mission success

Women’s History Month serves as a reminder of the many contributions and strengths women bring to the Coast Guard.

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