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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.

The commissioning crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Clarence Sutphin Jr., Patrol Forces Southwest Asia's sixth 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter, stand at attention as the ship is placed into service at a ceremony held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, April 21, 2022. The cutter's namesake is Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Clarence Sutphin Jr., a New York native who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1941 to 1945. During this time, Sutphin served as landing craft coxswain on board the attack transport USS Leonard Wood (APA 12), a landing craft supporting our troops in North Africa and Sicily. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Schultz)

April 28, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter, and more.

Coast Guard commissions 47th Sentinel-class cutter; Coast Guard offloads $11.7 million in cocaine, transfers 6 suspected smugglers in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Coast Guard Cutter Legare crew stops drugs, rescues Colombian fishers on 3-month patrol in Eastern Pacific, Caribbean; and Coast Guard hosts Army Corps of Engineers for site survey and future projects in San Francisco Bay.

Coast Guard tattoo policy graphic

April 28, 2022

Updates to the Tattoo, Body Marking, Body Piercing, and Mutilation Standards

Couple of changes to the manual, check them out.

Lt. Kristen Zelman, Sector Anchorage, with her (then) 6-month-old daughter, Brooke, Aug. 5, 2021. Zelman breastfed Brooke for 16 months.

April 27, 2022

Nursing mothers on temporary orders to be reimbursed for breast milk shipping and storage 

Active duty and reservists to receive same benefit approved for civilians.

Angelica Williams, 86th Force Support Squadron Airman and Family Readiness Center community readiness consultant, helps students with a money management goal sheet during the “Youth Saves Event,” at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Feb. 25, 2019. Williams said as the children wrote down their short and long term goals she emphasized with them that no matter how they use their money they should always have a goal with it. The “Youth Saves Event” educates the younger generation on how to build their financial foundation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kristof J. Rixmann)

April 27, 2022

Attend CG SUPRT’s May webinars on kids and money management, identity theft

 Webinars to be held May 3 and May 9 at 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. EDT both days

NEW ORLEANS - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Boswell, a yeoman with the Eighth Coast Guard District Servicing Personnel Office, processes reserve orders, Oct. 31, 2011. Boswell is responsible for processing more than 80 reserve members at the district, which includes pay, orders, leave, annual verifications and much, much more. U. S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey J. Ranel.

April 26, 2022

OMPF: Critical records being uploaded now 

As the service transitions official military personnel files to iPERMS with a go-live date this fall, critical record uploads for boards and panels are being prioritized.