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Dec. 6, 2021

CGTips app offers ability to report crime instantly, anonymously

Download the app to protect your shipmates and yourself

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

The Coast Guard and partner agencies are searching for a person in the water after he was last seen entering the water in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore. The Baltimore County Fire Department received the initial notification from the Canopy by Hilton Baltimore Harbor Point hotel security that they witnessed the person enter the water. (U.S. Coast Guard curtesy photo/Released)

Dec. 2, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard, partner agencies searching for person in the water in Baltimore Harbor and more.

Coast Guard, partner agencies suspend search for person in the water in Baltimore Harbor; Bidens visit Coast Guard station, meet virtually with service members around the globe on Thanksgiving; Coast Guard is searching for about 10 missing migrants near Mona Island, Puerto Rico.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Anitra Keith (far right), sits with her family in front of the Capital in Washington, D.C., with her husband Jason (far left) and their daughters: Aleesa, 10 (on the right) and Della, eight (on the left). Jon, their adopted 18-month-old son, sits on his father’s lap. Photo courtesy Senior Chief Petty Officer Anitra Keith.

Nov. 30, 2021

November is National Adoption Month: A roadmap to adopting a child

Here are some guidelines to expanding your family through adoption

Official shield for Coast Guard Base Charleston. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Charleston—over 230 years of Coast Guard service and growth in South Carolina!

The City of Charleston, S.C., has been a Coast Guard base of operations for over 230 years and its importance to the service has increased throughout its history.The nation’s first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, founded the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service in 1790, stationing one of the “first fleet” of 10 cutters, the South Carolina, in

Nov. 24, 2021

TRICARE open season ends Dec. 13

TRICARE open season is the annual period when you can enroll in or change your health care coverage for the next year. In 2021, TRICARE open season begins Nov. 8 and ends Dec. 13. Any enrollment changes you make will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022. Open season applies to anyone enrolled in or eligible for a TRICARE Prime option or TRICARE Select.

Training Center Petaluma (TRACEN) Petaluma Facilities Engineers oversee base seeding operation by local farmers Courtesy: Lt. Sarah Kukich)

Nov. 23, 2021

Training Center Petaluma grows organically

Training Center Petaluma has over 300 acres of the training center property dedicated to organic farming

Posed official photograph of the Coast Guard commandant, Rear Adm. Frederick Billard (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 19, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Catching the rumrunners—Coast Guard adopts new technology during Prohibition

[Prohibition] was a hard unremitting war with few of the rewards normally accompanying performance of such duty. Yet under the law, the Coast Guard had no alternative but to conduct it with zeal and dedication, utilizing all the resources at its command. The story of the “Noble Experiment” is in large part a Coast Guard story. Commandant Edwin

An Airman holds an electronic cigarette at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, Aug. 13, 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the more than 2,000 cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury that have occurred across the country. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Erica Crossen)

Nov. 18, 2021

Quit smoking beginning with the “Great American Smokeout”

The American Cancer Society is encouraging people to quit smoking on this one day

Chief Petty Officer Brian Sorensen and his children, Alexis and Blake, participate in the 12th annual Coast Guard Flags Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery Nov. 6, 2010. Members of FAA place flags at the graves of fallen Coast Guardsmen as part of the event. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley.

Nov. 18, 2021

BZ: Putting training to the test, 2021 recipients of the Captain Frank A. Erickson and Commander Elmer F. Stone Aviation Awards, Coast Guard honors fallen, Apply for grants

Bravo Zulu to A-school students at TRACEN Yorktown! Boatswain’s mate A-school students and instructors at Training Center (TRACEN) Yorktown diverted from their studies Oct. 20 to respond to two search and rescue cases. While conducting two-boat towing operations, on the York River, students and crew of a 38-foot training boat observed a pontoon