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Petty Officer Third Class Hailey LaRue on the deck of Coast Guard Cutter Wire while patrol on the Hudson River in Saugerties, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2021. LaRue is the first junior enlisted woman to serve aboard the Wire after it received a berthing conversion to accommodate females on this particular platform. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Dan Henry)

Dec. 15, 2021

Breaking ice, blazing trails

Coast Guard Cutter Wire mixed gender berthing conversion provides new opportunities to women to serve underway

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