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Aug. 18, 2023
Congratulations to the Coast Guard’s 2022 Auxiliarist of the Year
Auxiliarist Chester Williams earned this honor through his leadership and recruiting contributions
Aug. 2, 2022
2021 Morale, Well-Being, and Recreation (MWR) awards and scholarships announced
The International Military Community Executives’ Association (IMCEA) honors 3 for outstanding contributions to morale.
June 8, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part III. Modern world’s largest eruption and the Coast Guard responds!
The three-part conclusion of the three day eruption in what would become Katmai National Park in 1918.
June 7, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part II. The Apocalypse comes to Kodiak and the Revenue Cutter Service
Part 2 of the Katmai eruption
June 6, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Katmai—Part I. America’s worst volcanic eruption and the Revenue Cutter’s humanitarian response
The Revenue Cutter Service was one of the agencies that combined to create to the U.S. Coast Guard. This is their story
May 20, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Four Minutes after Midnight—Bligh Reef, Murphy Prefers Midnight!
Exxon Valdez tragedy...32 years later
April 29, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!
Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,
April 28, 2022
Extreme Rescue: Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew receives DHS Secretary’s Award for Valor
Congratulations to the Coast Guard's Secretary's Award recipients.
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
March 31, 2022
Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs Ukrainian mariner from Palmyra Atoll, and more
Coast Guard medevacs Ukrainian mariner from Palmyra Atoll; Coast Guard medevacs 70-year-old hiker after 200-foot fall; Coast Guard repatriates 188 people to Haiti; Coast Guard repatriates 44 people to Cuba; and Unified Command established in for tug aground in Neva Strait, Alaska.
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