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Adm. Poulin presented insignia #001 to Cal Lederer, current Deputy Judge Advocate General, who served as Acting Judge Advocate General during the Deepwater Horizon response.

April 23, 2024

Coast Guard Legal Program awards the first program insignia

CGJAG ceremoniously acknowledges the first ten recipients of the new insignia.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jennifer Brown and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Adam Peers were awarded golden keyboards on April 11, 2024, at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC, for the winning apps they created for the Power Platform Science Fair. Standing from left to right, Brian Campo, Acting Chief Information Officer of CG-6, Rear Adm. Russell Dash, Brown, Peers, Rear Adm. Chad Jacoby.

April 23, 2024

Congratulations to our award-winning Deck Plate Developers

Four Coast Guard members recognized for developing apps that make work more efficient.

Posed photograph early in the war of Joseph Gerczak in his dress blues uniform. (Courtesy of the Gerczak family)
Photo showing LST-66’s bow doors open to debark troops to the beach. (Navsource.org)

April 19, 2024

Joe Gerczak’s service and sacrifice from Philly to New Guinea

LST-66 ended the war as the most-decorated LST serving in the Coast Guard.

2023 Liz Blanc, Exceptional Sexual Assault Response Coordinator and Exceptional Victim Advocate of the Year awards

April 15, 2024

Hats off to the 2023 Liz Blanc Exceptional Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, Exceptional Victim Advocate of the Year recipients

The Coast Guard honors Michael Jordy and Lt. j.g. Kirsten Carson for their work in preventing, responding to, and supporting victims of sexual assault.

2023 Coast Guard Public Affairs Awards winners.

April 12, 2024

Coast Guard announces 2023 Haley-Simpson Public Affairs Awards winners

Units, members, and employees recognized for excellence in public affairs.

Operation Homefront selected seven recipients for the Military Child of the Year Award, and the Coast Guard congratulates 18-year-old Charlotte Tama as this year’s winner for our Service.

April 10, 2024

Congratulations to our 2024 Military Child of the Year Award Winner!

Operation Homefront selected seven recipients for the Military Child of the Year Award, and the Coast Guard congratulates 18-year-old Charlotte Tama as this year’s winner for our Service.

A photograph of the U.S. Life Saving Service crew posing with its surfboat in front of U.S. Life-Saving Station at St. Joseph, Michigan, from the Digital Collections of the Detroit Public Library.

March 29, 2024

Joseph Napier — Heroic Surfman, Gold Lifesaving Medal recipient and FRC namesake

For his heroism, Napier received the first Gold Lifesaving Medal issued by the U.S. Life-Saving Service, forerunner of the modern Coast Guard.

A portrait of Master Chief John E. “Jack” Downey, who served in the Coast Guard for over 40 years, including five officer-in-charge multi-mission ashore assignments and two officer-in-charge afloat assignments.

March 20, 2024

Congratulations to the 2023 Boat Forces award winners!

The Coast Guard awarded the first MCPO Jack Downey Awards and added Reserve Component categories to the CDR Ray Evans Outstanding Coxswain and Fireman First Class Paul Clark Outstanding Engineer Trophies.

An official portrait photograph of Dorothy C. Stratton seated in her office at Coast Guard Headquarters shortly before her retirement in 1946. (U.S. Coast Guard)

A World War II photo of Stratton meets with members of the Coast Guard’s Women’s Reserve of SPARs. (U.S. Coast Guard)

March 8, 2024

Dorothy Stratton — Wartime Coast Guard trailblazer and SPAR Leader

Capt. Stratton had the unique distinction of serving her country through three of the women’s branches of U.S. Armed Forces and became the director of the newly formed Coast Guard Women's Reserve, SPARS.

Left to right: Honorable Ashish Vazirani, Mr. Leroy Vander Putten, and Rear Admiral Will Watson attending the Spirit of Hope award ceremony Sept. 14, 2023.

March 6, 2024

Nominations are now being accepted for the Spirit of Hope Award

Nominations are due by April 17, 2024