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Sept. 12, 2024

Coast Guard Reserve FY25 IDT Travel Reimbursement Program is open for enrollment

FY25 Reserve Inactive Duty Training - Travel Reimbursement Program (IDT-TRP) expands eligibility to over 1,000 members E6 & below that live 150 or more miles from their assigned IDT location.

Coast Guard Sector Northern New England (SNNE) reserve members attached to SNNE including Station Rockland, Station South Portland and Station Portsmouth Harbor, participate in law enforcement training at the range as part of their Boarding Team College in Portland, Maine, May 19, 2023. Law enforcement members qualify or prequalify while practicing their marksmanship skills to maintain proficiency. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Amber Howie)

Sept. 3, 2024

Calling Reservists who want to be Boarding Officers!

The Boarding Officer Practical Course (BOPC) is for you!

May 14, 2024

New! How to request back-to-back short term ADOS or TDY extensions for more than 180 days at one unit or location

Coast Guard template and checklist streamline the request process for a short term ADOS or TDY extension.

March 28, 2024

Phase two of Inactive Duty Training (IDT) travel reimbursement is here!

More units are available for eligibility as the reimbursement program expands.

A portrait of Master Chief John E. “Jack” Downey, who served in the Coast Guard for over 40 years, including five officer-in-charge multi-mission ashore assignments and two officer-in-charge afloat assignments.

March 20, 2024

Congratulations to the 2023 Boat Forces award winners!

The Coast Guard awarded the first MCPO Jack Downey Awards and added Reserve Component categories to the CDR Ray Evans Outstanding Coxswain and Fireman First Class Paul Clark Outstanding Engineer Trophies.

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Blackwood and U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Arnold, both maritime enforcement specialists with the U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 308, take aim on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Walnut in Pensacola, Florida, on April 26, 2023. PSU 308 trained with members of the U.S. Army 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) to re-take a ship overrun by adversaries. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Gabriel Wisdom)

Jan. 22, 2024

Coast Guard moves reserve positions to reserve members

Restructuring the Port Security Units will aid in growing the Coast Guard Reserve.

Oct. 23, 2023

Introducing new Inactive Duty Training (IDT) travel reimbursement for eligible members

The Coast Guard will use a phased approach to reimburse certain members for Inactive Duty Training (IDT) travel.

Coast guard Recruiting Command changed the Everyone Is A Recruiter program to the more aptly named Scout Talent And Refer (STAR) program.

Sept. 5, 2023

How you can be a STAR

By simply telling your Coast Guard story, you can raise awareness of the Coast Guard, increase recruiting efforts, change lives of those you help recruit, and earn yourself some money!

The Coast Guard Foundation will award eight $1,000 scholarships to enlisted Coast Guard reservists or their eligible dependents.

Aug. 7, 2023

Coast Guard Foundation announces scholarships for reservists, dependents

Reservists: Apply by Aug. 15 for your chance to earn a scholarship for you or your family.

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan and Cmdr. James Lovenstein, Port Security Unit (PSU) 305’s commanding officer, roll the unit guidon as Master Chief Petty Officer Thomas Lepage, PSU 305’s command master chief, extends it during the unit’s casing of the colors decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, June 13, 2023. PSU 305, based in Fort Eustis, Va., was the first unit in 2002 to begin the Coast Guard’s mission with Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay and is the last to complete it. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Valerie Higdon)

June 16, 2023

Coast Guard completes mission at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay

Commandant presides over PSU 305’s historic casing of the colors ceremony.