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May 10, 2022

Enlisted members: Here’s what you need to know for the upcoming assignment year 

Getting ready for transfer season

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May 10, 2022

TSP: There’s an app for that

TSP at your fingertips

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May 9, 2022

Q&A: A conversation with a civil rights complaint manager

The Coast Guard’s Equal Employment Opportunity and Equal Opportunity (EEO/EO) program allows people to engage in the discrimination complaint process. In this Q&A, Toni Cunningham, complaint manager, talks about her role and the process.

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May 9, 2022

Commandant’s message on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 

This year’s observation theme: Advancing Leaders Through Collaboration

Portrait of William Tatham in 1779. Tatham was a contemporary and frequent correspondent of the president. He was universally acknowledged as brilliant, but could be abrasive and arrogant. He quickly alienated the other two commissioners, Jonathan Price and William Coles, working on the 1806 survey. They ended up submitting separate reports, and only Coles and Price produced the chart. (North Carolina Historical Review, July 1972)

May 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Death by hurricane of Coast Survey Cutters Diligence and Governor Williams 216 years ago

A busy hurricane season of 1806.

Jay Glover (right), a quality control inspector from the Fort Knox Transportation office, inspects some boxes being packed during a move-out recently. Glover said they are getting prepared for the adjusted peak PCS season, set to begin by July 1 and go into November this year.

May 6, 2022

Change in household goods calculations: gun safes

A recent change allows the weight of empty gun safes to be excluded from your HHG weight calculation.

The Coast Guard's student team members during the culinary competition, the 46th Joint Culinary Training Exercis, March 10, 2022. The team won silver in the Student Chef of the Year category and Petty Officer 3rd Class Predmore won Student Chef of the Year. Pictured from left to right: Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Dormburg, Petty Officer 3rd Class Spencer Hooker, Petty Officer 3rd Class Micah Hetrick, Petty Officer 3rd Class Joanni Govier and Petty Officer 3rd Class Thomas Predmore. (USCG photo)

May 3, 2022

The Coast Guard’s Culinary Team Wins Gold at the 46th Joint Services Culinary Competition

Members of the team will continue on to nationals to compete with industry professionals. 

Prinsendam cruising the sheltered waters near Skagway, Alaska, before her fire and subsequent loss. (Alaska State Library)

April 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!

Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

DHS Secretary’s Awards presented in Seattle

Congratulations to all winners

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

Extreme Rescue: Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew receives DHS Secretary’s Award for Valor 

Congratulations to the Coast Guard's Secretary's Award recipients.