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Coast Guard veteran in bright orange sweater stands in the center of uniformed Coast Guard members, receiving an award

Feb. 9, 2022

WWII veteran Lois “Coast Guard Lady” Bouton remembered by her shipmates

The former SPAR was a confidant, pen-pal and mentor to the Coast Guard community

DHS OUA ribbon

Feb. 7, 2022

The CG received the DHS Outstanding Unit Award, here’s who is eligible and when you can expect to receive recognition 

Distribution of award ribbons to begin in June. 

Commandant Karl Schultz stands at a podium in the operational dress uniform

Feb. 7, 2022

You’re invited: 2022 State of the Coast Guard on Feb. 24

Here’s how to watch Adm. Schultz’s final address

Petty Officer 2nd class Ty Hall takes a break during the workday to eat lunch on the mess deck with his shipmates. Food service specialists provide three meals a day to the Polar Star's crew. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Melissa McKenzie.

Feb. 4, 2022

Total Force Wellness Column: How to eat mindfully for weight loss 

EDITOR'S NOTE: As part of the Total Force Wellness Column, this article is written by the Human Performance Resources by CHAMP at the Uniformed Services University Food is about so much more than just meeting nutritional needs, performance requirements, or weight goals. Sure, we eat because we’re hungry. But we also eat when we’re tired,

A flotilla of Coast Guard landing craft evacuated a battalion of Marines surrounded at Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. For his heroism in this operation, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro received the service’s only Medal of Honor. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 4, 2022

The Long Blue Line: 1942—Coast Guard’s history making year 80 years ago!

Remembering events from 1942

Rear Adm. William Kelly, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy superintendent, signs a memorandum of understanding with University of Massachusetts Chancellor, Marcelo Orozco, as part of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Scholars Pilot program in Boston, January 28, 2022. The scholars program is intended to help students with a desire to join the Coast Guard choose an education path that will benefit them the most during their academic and military careers.(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Briana Carter)

Feb. 3, 2022

Coast Guard Academy forges partnership with University of Massachusetts; Coast Guard Academy to honor legacy of SPARs; Commemoration of Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn’s fallen  

Bravo Zulu!

Participants in the ground breaking ceremony shovel dirt, to signify the beginning of the energy microgrid project on U.S. Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) Petaluma, California, Jan. 28, 2022. The goal of the project is to allow TRACEN Petaluma to be able to produce their own power for up to 10-days of independent and full operations through the installation of five megawatts of solar photovoltaic and 11.6 megawatt hours of battery storage. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Taylor Bacon)

Feb. 3, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard holds renewable energy microgrid groundbreaking ceremony in Petaluma, California and more

Coast Guard holds renewable energy microgrid groundbreaking ceremony in Petaluma, California; Coast Guard, local responders recover deceased man, rescue woman in distress in ocean waters off ‘El Morro’ castle in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Coast Guard rescues 2 off Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

Chief Petty Officer Maureen Potratz, a member of the Coast Guard Base Rockmore-King Clinic staff, receives a COVID-19 vaccination shot by Petty Officer 2nd Class Qarina Orlowski, in Kodiak, Alaska, on Jan. 8, 2021. Coast Guard 17th District personnel are working diligently to vaccinate servicemembers to combat the spread of COVID-19. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Capt. Charles Truncale.

Feb. 1, 2022

Getting up-to-date on your COVID-19 vaccine

Boosted means updated on vaccines

Partial section of the painting “Coast Guard Rescue,” by Paul Rendel showing the stormy sea state during the nighttime rescue of the Terry T. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Jan. 28, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Lt. j.g. John Currier–Harmon Trophy honoree and the rescue of Scalloper Terry T

The rescue of 10 from the Terry T.

MWR Sports and Fitness program specialist Anthony Leon demonstrates some easy-to-follow exercises Feb. 16, in a regular series of videos. Photo by Eliza Cantrell

Jan. 28, 2022

Total Force Wellness Column: Guidelines to progress your physical training over time 

Here are some tips to resistance training safely

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