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The 2020 Wanda Allen-Yearout Ombudsman of the Year awardee, Jenifer Walker, is shown (top right) with her husband, Petty Officer First Class Bradley Walker, and their two children Andersen (left) and Trent (right).

Dec. 15, 2021

Calling all Coast Guard ombudsmen: you could be nominated for the 2021 Wanda Allen-Yearout Ombudsman of the Year Award 

Solicitations now open until Jan. 18, 2022 

Total Force Wellness Assessment Tool

Dec. 14, 2021

The Total Force Wellness Assessment Tool: How are you doing…really?

The tool launched this fall; open to members and their families

African-American trailblazer, Lt.j.g. Clarence Samuels, in an official Coast Guard photograph during World War II. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Dec. 10, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Teenage Coast Guardsman Morris Dankner, the African-American experience in World War II

When the United States entered World War II, it became clear that for the nation to prevail, it would take a whole national effort. Understanding that the need to draw from all elements of society, a drive to recruit underrepresented elements of our society to the cause was of the utmost importance.When it came to the Coast Guard and its

Chelsea Hughes teaches a lesson to her first-grade class at W.D. Robbins Elementary school in Alabama, in Dec. 2019. (USCG photo)

Dec. 8, 2021

Accessible opportunities for work, volunteerism as a Coast Guard spouse 

Ways to spend your time, contribute to your family and community 

Coast Guard servicemember smiling next to scientific instruments on board Cutter Healy

Dec. 8, 2021

Coast Guard research aimed at improving performance at high latitudes

Working to improve connectivity for cutters underway in the arctic region

Dec. 7, 2021

New variant on the rise, get boosted now

With the Omicron variant making its way around the world, boost your immune system with a vaccine booster

DoD365 Teams Boot Camp Logo

Dec. 6, 2021

Microsoft Teams boot camp sessions start this week

Familiarize yourself with the ins and outs of DoD365 Teams

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Esan Simon, the Coast Guard Academy's Medical Director, poses for a portrait on the walkway to Jacob's Rock, the sailing center on campus, Nov. 11, 2021. Simon recently placed 15th on the Connecticut NAACP's "100 Most Influential Blacks in Connecticut list." (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

Dec. 6, 2021

Steadfast: How one Coast Guard captain navigates the uncharted seas of life

Expertise is a product of experience. It is a characteristic that is wholly meritocratic, with the amount of hours put toward refining one’s skill determining how far that individual will get in their profession. For U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Officer Capt. Esan Simon, the Medical Director of the Coast Guard Academy, his constant desire to

Jessica Cross, a research oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration​ Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, shows the course of an unmanned wind-propelled and solar-powered surface vehicle Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, from a computer on the bridge of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy as the crew transits the southern Chukchi Sea. This is one of two sailing drones Cross is in charge of, and while aboard the Healy, she and the crew rendezvoused with both vehicles so that Cross could calibrate specific instrumentation by comparing location data samples with what the sensors aboard the vehicles were reading. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross

Dec. 3, 2021

Get your holiday vacation and other requests in before Direct Access goes offline Dec. 20

Make sure you’re prepared 

Dec. 3, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The attack on Pearl Harbor—“a date that will live in infamy”—80 years ago

In his war declaration speech, President Franklin Roosevelt labeled Dec. 7, 1941, as a “date that will live in infamy.” On that day, without forewarning or a declaration of war, forces of Imperial Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In the battle, Coast Guard units served alongside the Navy firing anti-aircraft barrages