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July 24, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Part II — “Available and needed workers have been barred from employment” — the segregated military and civil service environments
The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (USRCS), predecessor to the United States Coast Guard (USCG), utilized both free and enslaved Black people, and restricted their roles to cooks, stewards and seamen.
July 20, 2023
The Long Blue Line: “There Shall be Equal Opportunity for All” — Why President Truman’s desegregation orders were necessary
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed a pair of executive orders, the combination of which banned racial segregation in the armed forces and federal civil service.
July 17, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard helps rescue U.S. submarine Squalus over 80 years ago!
Trapped and tragically drowned in the flooded after compartments were 24 officers and sailors plus two civilian technicians. This left 32 officers and sailors and one civilian technician alive in the unflooded forward compartments.
July 7, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Omitted — Coast Guard’s forgotten evacuation of typhoon-ravaged Wake Island 55 years ago!
Being the first aircraft to arrive, the C-130 landed about 11:00 a.m. Wake Island time or just over 12 hours following the storm’s passage.
June 30, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Cutter Algonquin’s role in the World’s First Aerial Circumnavigation 100 years ago!
It was the first attempt to circumnavigate the globe, and the world was watching through newspaper accounts.
June 9, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Into the eye of a storm on the wings of an Albatross — Hurricane Laurie, 50 years ago!
Instantly, sunlight! No wind. Clear skies. The sea surface was flat and oily looking but undulating with huge pop-up waves. We were in!
May 10, 2023
“I love you…Over.”
The story behind the Coast Guard's Vietnam-era ham radio on display at Camp Legacy this weekend
Feb. 9, 2022
WWII veteran Lois “Coast Guard Lady” Bouton remembered by her shipmates
The former SPAR was a confidant, pen-pal and mentor to the Coast Guard community