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A crew member from Coast Guard Station Portsmouth looks over the radar while underway for two-boat tactical coxswain training in Portsmouth, Virginia on Aug. 22, 2023. Tactical Coxswains and crew members normally attend a two week developmental course at Special Missions Training Center at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where they practice and perform until the member demonstrates proficiency in the mission requirements. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan L. Noel)

May 17, 2024

Coast Guard rolls out modernized Coxswain Core Course

The Coxswain Core Course is an example of tailored, on-demand training that is helping to transform our ready workforce.  

Painting of U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear, circa 1890, on patrol off Alaska by James A. Mitchell III. (U.S. Coast Guard)

May 17, 2024

Bear Hunt — the search for Healy’s legendary cutter

Finding a shipwreck is like solving any mystery.

Members of the Migrant Interdiction Operations Application Team who attended the Innovation Awards ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters on May 2, 2024, receive recognition for creating an app that streamlined processing of migrants. From left: Lt. Kailee Evereteze, Lt. Cmdr. Shawn Antonelli, Lt. Garen Anderson, Lt. John Roddy, Lt. Victoria Martucci, Lt. Cmdr. Nick Phillips. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ronald Hodges Jr)

May 16, 2024

Coast Guard recognizes innovators of the year

Seven teams win 2023 Capt. Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards.

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May 15, 2024

Coast Guard warns members: Adversaries using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Facebook to recruit spies

DECISIVE KEEPER campaign urges careful social media use.

A white background with a star encased by a circle. Beside the star the words The Olmsted Foundation are shown with gold underlines.

May 15, 2024

Junior officers, apply to study abroad with no payback assignment

The Olmsted Scholarship is accepting applications until May 20.

Personnel Service Center logo

May 14, 2024

New! How to request back-to-back short term ADOS or TDY extensions for more than 180 days at one unit or location

Coast Guard template and checklist streamline the request process for a short term ADOS or TDY extension.

Updated Tattoo Policy

May 14, 2024

Coast Guard updates tattoo policy

Size limits, placement of tattoos adjusted.

The Coast Guard Aeronautical Engineering Team poses for a group photo during the 2024Aerospace Maintenance Competition. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

May 14, 2024

Coast Guard team competes in Aerospace Maintenance Competition

Congrats Airdales!

The AANHPI Heritage Month event will be held live and online Wednesday, May 15th from 1 pm – 3 pm EDT

May 13, 2024

Join us for the 2024 Joint Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month event

The AANHPI Heritage Month event will be held live and online this Wednesday, May 15th, from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT

Early photograph of crewmembers of the Bering Sea Patrol cutter Bear with Asian national crew members seated in the bottom row. (U.S. Coast Guard)

May 10, 2024

Devotion to Duty — Asian nationals serving in the Coast Guard

Asian nationals began serving in the United States Coast Guard 175 years ago, playing an important role in the history of the Coast Guard’s ancestor agency of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.