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Category: Veterans

Aug. 25, 2022

Young artists illustrate greener shipping

Winners announced for 2022 Student Art Contest.

Coast Guardsmen Petty Officers Second Class Charles Vilamere and Mike Kaszuba and Petty Officer First Class Steven “Sleepy” Franks, stand in front of a Coast Guard C-130 with “Policia” markings on the fuselage. (Coast Guard Aviation Association)

Aug. 19, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Operation “Jester”--Coast Guard counterdrug ops in Peru

The Coast Guard's role in Operation Jester.

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Aug. 18, 2022

EVENT: Financial planning for families with special needs

Aug. 24 webinar explains how Special Needs Trusts and Able Accounts can provide financial security for eligible family members.

Chief Petty Officer George Soto calculates points for the Female Armed Platoon drill competition at Monarch High School, Coconut Creek, Florida, Jan. 22. Soto is the Coast Guard recipient of the 2022 League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Excellence in Service Award. (USCG Courtesy Photo)

Aug. 17, 2022

George Soto wins the LULAC Excellence in Service Award

Advancing diversity in underrepresented populations.

The search and rescue (SAR) exhibit for the Coast Guard museum highlights SAR events throughout the years. SAR has been at the core of the Coast Guard’s missions. The Lifesavers Around the Globe wing will feature an immersive Katrina Tableau dedicated to the urban rescue efforts that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005.USCG photo

Aug. 17, 2022

Commandant to officiate keel-laying ceremony for the National Coast Guard Museum

The new building will offer free, interactive opportunities to explore the service’s past and future.

An engraving showing “wreckers” salvaging a grounded vessel in the Florida Keys. In 1822, around 40 British and nine American sloops served as wreckers in the Keys. In addition to providing rescue and salvage assistance to grounded vessels, a few were also notorious smugglers and pirates. (State Archives of Florida)

Aug. 12, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Revenue Cutter Alabama rescues 16 from human traffickers 200 years ago!

In June 1822, the Alabama District Court in Mobile heard cases against three vessels that had been seized several months earlier by the Revenue Cutter Alabama. Within the space of four days, beginning on March 4th, the 56-foot topsail schooner had captured them just north of the Florida Keys. Two were charged with “having onboard . . . negroes . .