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Sept. 15, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Villarreal - Silver Star savior of Vietnam 55 years ago
"It was one of those things. I just didn’t think we were going to, . . . we just weren’t going to survive. We just weren’t going to survive. It was just too much."
May 10, 2023
Honor our Vietnam veterans this weekend
From May 11-13, visitors will flock to Camp Legacy on the National Mall to check out helicopters, armored amphibious vehicles, historical artifacts, musical performances, drill teams, and lessons from curators on preserving your family members' own military artifacts.
Oct. 28, 2022
The Long Blue Line: “Tip of the Spear”—Coast Guard joins the fight in Vietnam
Remembering the Coast Guard's role in the Vietnam War.
Oct. 21, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Captured in Wartime—Vietcong Flag from Vietnam
An artifact of war.
June 25, 2021
Fair winds and following seas: Cmdr. Merle Smith, CGA's 1st African American graduate
Cmdr. Smith, 76, died June 16. The wake and funeral service will be held next month in New London.
March 26, 2021
The Long Blue Line: The Coast Guard in Vietnam-a remembrance
Fifty-five years after the Coast Guard joined the fight in Vietnam, we commemorate those servicemembers who went in harm’s way, several of whom paid with their lives in a land far from home.
Dec. 23, 2020
Reader submission: New Years' logs from the Vietnam era
MyCG's first reader contribution comes from former Coastie John Fagan
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