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Aug. 11, 2025
If not us, who? A conversation with the CO of our newest Fast Response Cutter
Coast Guard Cutter Earl Cunningham today joins the fleet as our 59th FRC. The commissioning ceremony's biggest VIP? Cunningham's great-great-grandson.
Jan. 8, 2021
The Long Blue Line: So that others might live—Earl Cunningham’s final rescue
In the 1930s, before modern search and rescue systems like the Coast Guard’s Rescue 21 system and ubiquitous marine radios, Coast Guardsmen stood watch on the shore to watch for those in need.