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Aug. 2, 2024
Raising The White Picket Fence
The 1981 origin of the Coast Guard’s Haitian Migration Interdiction Operations.
July 26, 2024
SS Steel Executive — an impossible and heroic aviation medevac
“In honoring the Coast Guard by my selection, I really feel that you honored a service that from the helicopters very beginning — we employed it to rescue thousands of people and saved millions of dollars of property.” - Lt. Cmdr. Paul Lewis
July 19, 2024
Lessons learned from 2017’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Eyewitness accounts to the catastrophic Hurricane Maria, revealing the commitment to service, devotion to duty and willingness to make sacrifices that characterize the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard community.
July 18, 2024
Coast Guard launches site on Strengthening Service Culture Initiative
The new website consolidates information to be your touchpoint for service-wide SSC efforts.
July 12, 2024
The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr
The story of the service’s first drug interdiction case (1891) and how it was misrepresented in the history books.
June 28, 2024
Coxswain for all invasions — Robert Ward and the Joseph T. Dickman at D-Day
The story of D-Day hero, Silver Star Medal recipient and FRC namesake Robert Ward.
June 21, 2024
Jack Hamlin — Boatswain, rescue swimmer, and savior of D-Day
CG-23 and other rescue cutters performed heroically against the weather and the odds. Jack estimated his boat saved around 50 lives that day.
June 14, 2024
D-Day hero Jack DeNunzio and LCI-94 at Normandy
Jack DeNunzio’s final breath would be forever recorded for posterity by a Coast Guard photographer and a world-renowned Life Magazine combat photographer.
May 28, 2024
Sexual assault and sexual harassment in the Coast Guard
“I am dedicated to demonstrating through actions and change that the Coast Guard is worthy of your trust and respect.” - Adm. Linda Fagan
May 17, 2024
Bear Hunt — the search for Healy’s legendary cutter
Finding a shipwreck is like solving any mystery.