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Category: Veterans

Aug. 9, 2024

Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty

Foundational principles of Coast Guard culture.

Aug. 4, 2024

Happy 234th Birthday, Coast Guard!

Here’s to many more years of service, honor, and a strengthened culture of excellence.

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.