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April 22, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Buddy Ebsen—Hollywood actor and World War II patrol frigate officer
Hollywood actor, Coast Guard WWII hero
April 21, 2022
Frontline Focus: Container ship grounded in Chesapeake Bay refloated after 35 days, and more
Container ship grounded in Chesapeake Bay refloated following 35-day salvage operation, Maryland; Coast Guard to host groundbreaking ceremony at Base Boston for Fast Response Cutter pier construction, Massachusetts; Coast Guard medevacs swimmer near Dauphin Island, Alabama; Coast Guard Sector New Orleans holds change-of-command ceremony, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Coast Guard terminates three illegal charter vessels in San Diego Bay, California.
April 18, 2022
Coast Guard Academy Participates in NSA Cyber Exercise 2022
Practicing cyber security with higher institutions.
April 15, 2022
The Long Blue Line: “The land turned to liquid”—Coast Guard operations in the Great Alaska Earthquake
The land turned to liquid. A long slice of the seaward edge of the plain…a section nearly a mile long and as much as six hundred feet wide-compacted, slumped, and then slid into the bay… men tumbled into the water, grasping for anything – timbers, boxes, debris-to stay afloat. One clung to the side of the fissure before he too, fell in. In the
April 14, 2022
Frontline Focus: Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment
Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns following 147-day deployment; U.S., Philippine Coast Guards host maritime law enforcement forum in Guam; Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane returns home to Portsmouth, Virginia following 50-day patrol; and Coast Guard offloads $20 million in cocaine, following at-sea drug bust near Puerto Rico.
April 8, 2022
The Long Blue Line: “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back”—origin of the old Life-Saving Service motto
The lore behind the motto
April 7, 2022
Frontline Focus: Cutter Dauntless crew offloads more than $160 million in illegal narcotics, and more.
Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless crew offloads more than $160 million in illegal narcotics; Kimball crew offloads more than 11,300 pounds of cocaine, more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana worth $223 million; Coast Guard rescues 3 mariners; and Cutter Tampa returns home.
See the Coast Guard Band on its Southern Connections Tour
The Coast Guard Band will be providing free performances throughout the Southeastern United States.
April 5, 2022
Admiral Linda L. Fagan nominated to be first woman to serve as Commandant of the Coast Guard
Adm. Fagan has selected and the president has nominated Vice Adm. Steven D. Poulin as the Coast Guard’s 33rd Vice Commandant
April 4, 2022
April is Alcohol Awareness Month—abstaining from alcohol is a wise health decision
In his first State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden spoke to the difficulties and challenges of overcoming the worst pandemic in over 100 years, and its effects on both the nation’s physical health and the nation’s mental [behavioral] health. At the close of the address, the President put forth a four-step “Unity Agenda” asking Congress to
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