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The VA offers support to sexual assault survivors.

July 25, 2024

Commandant updates Congress one year after Accountability and Transparency Review

“We have made great progress across all actions” and have also identified and completed additional actions aligned with the ATR's objectives.

Capt. Brian Maggi, Head of Civil Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy, holds up a drone during a training course at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn, Feb 21, 2023. The Coast Guard Short Ranged Unmanned Aerial Systems (SR-UAS) program is designed to create designated pilots and integrate drone capabilities into various missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matt Thieme)

July 23, 2024

Short-Range Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Challenging the status quo

How to boost your programs' efficiency, safety, and reduce costs for various missions.

U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to the USCGC Heriberto Hernandez (WPC 1114), a Fast Response Cutter homeported in San Juan, Puerto Rico, delivers food near the port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Sept. 27, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse)

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.

Carl Shipley, ROV & UPSEC program manager, prepares an unmanned submersible vehicle to search for victims of the March 26, 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland. The Coast Guard integrated unmanned ROVs with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to search for victims following the accident. (Photo by David Adams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

July 17, 2024

Coast Guard integrates aerial, underwater drones to locate victims of Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

Technology provides real-time map both above and below sea.

U.S. Revenue Cutter Wolcott. The Wolcott was a sail-steamer homeported at Port Townsend, Washington, Territory. Although her crew discovered no drugs aboard the George E Starr, a landing party from the cutter made the earliest yet-known drug seizure by predecessor agencies of the Coast Guard, finding nearly 3,012 pounds of opium hidden in barrels at a fishery in Alaska on January 14, 1886. (U.S. Coast Guard)

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.

Official photograph of Charles T. Thrun in his dress uniform. (U.S. Coast Guard)
The Grumman J2F “Duck” No. 162 that Thrun flew when he died. (U.S. Coast Guard)

July 5, 2024

The last flight of Coast Guard Aviator #3

USCG aviator #3 Charles Thrun, the first enlisted aviator in the Coast Guard.

A Coast Guard small boat crew assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute (WMEC 620) gets underway in the North Caribbean Sea, July 15, 2023, Resolute was deployed in support of Homeland Security Task Force Southeast and Operation Vigilant Sentry to conduct migrant interdiction, deterrence, and maritime safety and security missions. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class David Deal)

July 2, 2024

Coast Guard building better system to get operational decisionmakers the data they need

Project Minerva to improve Maritime Domain Awareness and accelerate ability to act.

The original enlistment photograph for Robert Grattan Ward, later Silver Star Medal recipient for action on D-Day. (U.S. Coast Guard)
With cargo nets dropped and LCVPs in position, the Joseph Dickman disembarks troops for amphibious landing. (U.S. Coast Guard)

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.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Ethan “Echo” Adams, a yeoman at Coast Guard Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Petty Officer 2nd Class Christian “Lights” Rocha, a culinary specialist at Coast Guard Station Freeport, Texas, and Petty Officer 1st Class Claudio “Zielum” Giugliano, a marine science technician at the Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team at Fort Dix, New Jersey, are interviewed by Jasmine “Veracity” Kanuga, an esports presenter and interviewer, at the Allied Forces Esports Invitational 2024 June 23, 2024 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This was Coast Guard Gaming’s first international competition. (US Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jasmine Mieszala)

June 27, 2024

Coast Guard Gaming shines in first international esports tournament

In their first international competition, Coast Guard Gaming took their skills to Germany to compete in the Allied Forces Esports Invitational 2024.

An 83-footer making the Channel crossing with other vessels just before the D-Day landings. (U.S. Coast Guard)

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.