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A Coast Guard Officer's hat, sword, gloves and ribbons are displayed together with the American Flag.

May 6, 2022

Learn about prevention assignments during upcoming OPM virtual roadshow 

Don’t miss opportunity to get your questions answered on May 11

Portrait of William Tatham in 1779. Tatham was a contemporary and frequent correspondent of the president. He was universally acknowledged as brilliant, but could be abrasive and arrogant. He quickly alienated the other two commissioners, Jonathan Price and William Coles, working on the 1806 survey. They ended up submitting separate reports, and only Coles and Price produced the chart. (North Carolina Historical Review, July 1972)

May 6, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Death by hurricane of Coast Survey Cutters Diligence and Governor Williams 216 years ago

A busy hurricane season of 1806.

Jay Glover (right), a quality control inspector from the Fort Knox Transportation office, inspects some boxes being packed during a move-out recently. Glover said they are getting prepared for the adjusted peak PCS season, set to begin by July 1 and go into November this year.

May 6, 2022

Change in household goods calculations: gun safes

A recent change allows the weight of empty gun safes to be excluded from your HHG weight calculation.

International partners gather to discuss how to to globally strengthen cyber resiliency against threats to the Marine Transportation System, May 10-12, 2022 in Long Beach, Calif.

May 5, 2022

EVENT: Register for the first ever Global MTS Symposium

Hosted by USCG and the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in partnership with Denmark and the Netherlands

A good Samaritan notified Sector Key West watchstanders of a migrant vessel at approximately 9:00 a.m., about 17 miles south of Marathon, April 18, 2022. The people were repatriated to Cuba April 27, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

May 5, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard seizes 168 pounds of marijuana near South Padre Island, Texas, and more

Coast Guard seizes 168 pounds of marijuana near South Padre Island, Texas; Coast Guard Sector Miami holds change of command ceremony, Miami; Sector St. Petersburg will receive first 154-foot fast response cutter; Coast Guard, partners rescue missing mariners near Chuuk State, Santa Rita, Guam; and Coast Guard repatriates 84 people to Cuba.

The Coast Guard's student team members during the culinary competition, the 46th Joint Culinary Training Exercis, March 10, 2022. The team won silver in the Student Chef of the Year category and Petty Officer 3rd Class Predmore won Student Chef of the Year. Pictured from left to right: Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Dormburg, Petty Officer 3rd Class Spencer Hooker, Petty Officer 3rd Class Micah Hetrick, Petty Officer 3rd Class Joanni Govier and Petty Officer 3rd Class Thomas Predmore. (USCG photo)

May 3, 2022

The Coast Guard’s Culinary Team Wins Gold at the 46th Joint Services Culinary Competition

Members of the team will continue on to nationals to compete with industry professionals. 

Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter, active duty recipient of the 2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award, with wife, Jean, at his 2018 advancement ceremony. Photo courtesy Chief Petty Officer Geoffrey Potter.

May 2, 2022

2021 CDR John P. Dailey Award recipients announced

MyCG interviews the active duty and civilian winners 

Prinsendam cruising the sheltered waters near Skagway, Alaska, before her fire and subsequent loss. (Alaska State Library)

April 29, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Prinsendam—Coast Guard’s “Miracle Rescue” over 40 years ago!

Editor’s note: This article initially published Nov. 24 in the Commandant’s Bulletin Magazine.The town of Valdez, Alaska, fell behind the U.S. tanker Williamsburgh. Full of oil, the ship headed for Texas. The bridge crew sighed relief—one more successful trip through the narrow channel. Midnight was approaching, bringing in Saturday, Oct. 4, 1980,

A small boat from Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma ferries Haitians from the ship to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, March 22, 2022. 188 Haitians were repatriated following an interdiction on March 19, 2022.

April 28, 2022

FSMS: Weekly progress report from the Incident Command

The Coast Guard’s FSMS Transition Incident Command (IC) is looking for volunteers to assist in its mission critical operation. 

Lt.j.g. Jonathan Orthman (left), Petty Officer Third Class Grant Roberts, Petty Officer Second Class Jimmy Schwader, Lt. Justin Neal together Nov. 1, 2020 following the rescue a fisherman near Meyers Chuck, Alaska. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

April 28, 2022

DHS Secretary’s Awards presented in Seattle

Congratulations to all winners

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