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Chief Petty Officer Joseph Greely (left) from Coast Guard Cutter Charles Moulthrope instructs then Petty Officer 1st Class Collin Strange as they conduct training in the cutter’s small boat in the Atlantic on April 12, 2021. Strange, an operations specialist, is the winner of the 2022 Hopley Yeaton Enlisted Officer Superior Cutterman award. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sydney Niemi/Released)

Dec. 29, 2022

2022 Hopley Yeaton Awards winners announced 

Coast Guard “Oscars” recognize cutter excellence and superior cutterman 

Coast Guard Sector Boston recognizes new cuttermen aboard the USS Constitution during an Eight Bells celebration, Oct. 18, 2021. The annual occasion commemorates sea service with a variety of events, including a writing competition. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Meecham.)

Nov. 9, 2022

2 cuttermen win 2022 Eight Bells contest to celebrate afloat service 

These two authors captured experiences, challenges, camaraderie at sea.

Lt. Jalle Merritt, a combat systems officer assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, photographed with a national security cutter in the background. Merritt is slated to command the Coast Guard Cutter Myrtle Hazard in July 2022

July 25, 2022

Opportunities for women afloat expand as 2023 transfer season approaches 

New and converted platforms offer varied missions, increased flexibility 

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Seaman Apprentice Tatiana Muniz Guzman, a crewmember aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, stands ready to raise the morning colors, Jan. 9, 2017. Sherman, homeported in Honolulu, is on a counter narcotics mission in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Cutters like Sherman routinely conduct operations from South America to the Bering Sea conducting alien migrant interdiction operations, domestic fisheries protection, search and rescue, counter-narcotics and other Coast Guard missions at great distances from shore keeping threats far from the U.S. mainland. (FOR RELEASE U.S. Coast Guard photo Chief Warrant Officer Allyson E.T. Conroy)

Sept. 2, 2021

Creating more opportunities for women to serve underway

Small changes to assets and policy have big impacts, expanding opportunities for women afloat

Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew Guthrie, an information systems technician at the Base Seattle Electronic Support Detachment, works at his desk at Coast Guard Base Seattle, March 3, 2015. Guthrie was one of three Coast Guard members presented with the Copernicus Award in 2015, for his work in fiscal year 2014. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross)

April 29, 2021

Here is a new means of accessing your TSP

Use your .mil or personal email to authenticate TSP

Chief Warrant Officer William Hockensmith, a marine inspector at Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Portland, documents a damaged pipe during an inspection of the small passenger vessel Adventure Bound at a dry dock in Ilwaco, Washington, March 9, 2020. Small passenger vessels like the Adventure Bound that operate in saltwater routes are required to receive dry dock inspections every two years. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read)

April 12, 2021

Inspecting vessels just got easier thanks to the new INSPECT app

Marine inspectors use new app for mobile access to necessary systems.

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