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March 21, 2024
Commandant delivers the 2024 State of the Coast Guard Address
Adm. Fagan highlighted operational accomplishments while focusing on workforce and mission readiness and strengthening Service culture.
Sept. 1, 2023
The Long Blue Line: The infamous James Alderman and redemption of CG-249 100 years ago
The next morning, they would return to Fort Lauderdale and resume the grind of chasing rum runners.
Aug. 23, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, part three
The shipwreck that prompted the creation of the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Program is recalled by the pilot of one of the helicopters sent to rescue survivors on that fateful night.
Aug. 21, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, Part Two
Aug. 18, 2023
The Long Blue Line: A tragedy remembered — SS Marine Electric sinking 40 years ago, Part One
July 26, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Part III “When I say Americans, I mean all Americans!” — Segregation’s take-down by President Harry Truman
Denial of employment and promotion, and separate dining and restroom facilities often characterized the experience and limited upward mobility for African American workers.
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.
JROTC makes strides with its first-ever Junior Leadership Academy and expansion to 10 units
Base Elizabeth City hosts an action-packed week for cadets from all six CGJROTC units ahead of further program growth.
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.