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Coast Guard service members gather with a Coast Guard veteran in front of a helicopter to celebrate his 100th birthday

Nov. 9, 2021

Coast Guard veteran turns 100, reflects on ‘scary days’ and ‘unbelievable sights’ of D-Day invasion

Coast Guard Sector and Air Station Corpus Christie attend a centenarian birthday celebration

Nov. 9, 2021

Coast Guard Marathon offering Veterans Day discount

Limited time discount for 15% off registration fee

Nov. 5, 2021

Retired Vice Adm. Manson Brown shares mentoring lessons on National Mentoring Day

The mentoring program launches its mobile app and program milestones

Nov. 4, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department urge safe practices for anglers along state waterways, coasts, and more.

Coast Guard, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department urge safe practices for anglers along state waterways, coasts; Coast Guard medevacs man from Patricia Lee, 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor; and Coast Guard repatriates 32 Cubans to Cuba; one smuggler detained.

A Coast Guard health services technician draws a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from a vial at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., Jan. 8, 2021. Our goal is to limit, to the greatest extent possible, any outside factor that would jeopardize the health and safety of our people and ultimately affect our missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Shannon Kearney)

Nov. 2, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine: Boosters available for Coast Guard workforce

Here’s what you need to know about booster shots

Nov. 2, 2021

Military OneSource: Resources at your fingertips

Find what you need for PCS moves, to dealing with stress.

The last known photograph of the Bear taken from a Coast Guard aircraft before it sank in March 1963. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 2, 2021

Captain Healy’s Cutter Bear—once lost, now found!

As with so many forgotten Coast Guard stories of heroism, bravery, and courage, the story of Michael Augustine Healy and his trusty cutter Bear is unknown to most Americans. Healy was born in 1839 on a plantation in Georgia to a plantation owner and a slave. His father sent Healy north with his siblings so they would escape enslavement in the South

After its service as a VOA floating transmitter, Courier became Coast Guard reserve training ship, stationed at Training Center Yorktown. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Oct. 29, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Cold War Cutter Courier—“Valiant fighter in the cause of freedom”

I am speaking to you today from a ship. It is a special kind of ship, and it will perform a very special mission. This vessel will not be armed with guns, or with any instruments of destruction. But it will be a valiant fighter in the cause of freedom. It will carry a precious cargo--and that cargo is truth. ~ President Harry S Truman, U.S. Coast

STS-85 Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam (020-22), Jan Davis (025), Steve Robinson (029-31), Payload Specialist Bjarni Tryggvason (026-28) and Pilot Kent Rominger (032-34) in sleep restraints mounted on the middeck bulkheads. View of both Davis and Robinson in their respective sleep restraints (023-24). View STS085-327-026 was selected by the crew for use in the postflight presentation.

Oct. 29, 2021

The “weight” of poor sleep

How sleep plays a role in your daily habits and mood

Oct. 28, 2021

Expanded tattoo policy for military members

Policy change affects behind-the-ear and finger tattoos