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406 Day 2024: Celebrating over 50,000 lives saved

April 5, 2024

406 Day 2024: Celebrating over 50,000 lives saved

The Coast Guard celebrates 406 Day, April 6th, alongside our Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) partners - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Space Force, and U.S. Air Force.

The last known photograph of the Bear taken from a Coast Guard aircraft before it sank in March 1963. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 2, 2021

Captain Healy’s Cutter Bear—once lost, now found! 

As with so many forgotten Coast Guard stories of heroism, bravery, and courage, the story of Michael Augustine Healy and his trusty cutter Bear is unknown to most Americans. Healy was born in 1839 on a plantation in Georgia to a plantation owner and a slave. His father sent Healy north with his siblings so they would escape enslavement in the South

Serving aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, U.S. Coast Guard officer Lt.j.g. Rebecca Edmonds holds a sample of plankton that is submerged in a preservation fluid

Aug. 2, 2021

Sardines and science: How an Lt. j.g. talked her way onto a NOAA ship's crew

Along the way, Lt. j.g. Rebecca Edmonds earned the qualification for underway officer of the deck - and the trust of a very skeptical chief scientist.

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