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Second Lt. Harry G. Hamlet (top row, left) standing above another future commandant, Ellsworth Bertholf, aboard Revenue Cutter Bear during its famous Overland Rescue deployment, 1897-98 (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)

Dec. 9, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Harry Hamlet’s rescue of Navy convoy 100 years ago!

[Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from “The Coast Guard in the World War,” a chapter in The

Senior Chief Petty Officer Joshua McBride picks leeks with his mother, Michele Pokrandt, to prepare their family’s signature Oyster Leek Stew for Thanksgiving, Richmond Hill, Georgia, Nov. 23, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Senior Chief Petty Officer McBride)

Dec. 8, 2022

Announcing the 2022 MyCG Holiday Menu

Don’t miss this soup recipe ahead the holidays!

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Dec. 8, 2022

Coast Guard releases new action plan for Mission Support   

Vice Adm. Paul Thomas communicates his intent for DCMS.

Service members modifying their social media preferences can reduce the risk of identity theft and prevent scam artists from using private information to harm civilians.

Dec. 7, 2022

Don’t get phished over the holidays 

Coast Guard Cyber Command offers 5 tips to protect yourself from scammers this holiday season 

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Dec. 6, 2022

Coast Guard updates outside activities policy

Make sure you are following new regulations.

U.S. Marines with Battlefield Surveillance Company, 2nd Intelligence Battalion, and U.S. Coast Guardsmen boat through channels and survey the water off the coast of Oak Island, North Carolina, Aug. 31, 2016. The Marines teamed up with U.S. Coast Guardsmen at Coast Guard Station Oak Island, North Carolina, to create a topographical layout of waterways that were previously unidentifiable. The new maps will correct navigation discrepancies such as off-station buoys or extinguished lights. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kaitlyn V. Klein)

Dec. 6, 2022

Calling all engineers! The Coast Guard's Military to Mariner program has a new engineering credential course

Now the Military to Mariner program offers one more credential opportunity for engineers.

Underway Officer Ensign Katharine Braynard (right) works with Junior Oficer of the Deck, Petty Officer First Class Erin Hunter, with the plan for mooring in Milwaukee to offload buoys, Nov. 27, 2012. Braynard and Hunter were part of an all-female watch executed on the Mackinaw during the ship's transit to Chicago to offload 1,300 Christmas trees as part of this year's Chicago's Christmas Ship event. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Robert Butler.

Dec. 5, 2022

Share your New Year’s watch log entry with MyCG!

Here’s how you can publish your poem 

Petty Officer 2nd Class Clincy, a health services specialist, examines, Petty Officer Brandy Mock's throat during a routine exam. Clincy earned the Health Services Technician of the Year award ashore for 2004 for his work at Sector St. Petersburg's medical clinic. USCG photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tasha Peters.

Dec. 5, 2022

Reminder: Open season closes next week; make your insurance changes now 

The annual open season to make changes to your federal health insurance closes Dec. 12. 

Recruits from boot camp company Quebec-200 graduate Coast Guard boot camp at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., June 18, 2021. Training Center Cape May’s mission is to transform the recruits of today into the Coast Guard men and women of tomorrow, while providing superior mission support to our tenant commands. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Christian Lower)

Dec. 5, 2022

We take a look at the recruiting situation for the US Coast Guard

Transcript of interview with Federal News Network and Capt. Richter Tipton.

Radioman First Class Benjamin Bottoms in flight gear posed in front of a military trainer aircraft. (Family of Olga Bottoms Richardson)

Dec. 2, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Benjamin Bottoms—Arctic aviator, wartime hero served with Lt. John Prichard

Enlisted aviation hero and namesake for new FRC.