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Feb. 7, 2022

ALCGOFF 007/22: SUBJ: Officer Personnel Management Virtual Outreach Sessions

Save the date for these virtual OPM roadshows!

DHS OUA ribbon

Feb. 7, 2022

The CG received the DHS Outstanding Unit Award, here’s who is eligible and when you can expect to receive recognition 

Distribution of award ribbons to begin in June. 

Commandant Karl Schultz stands at a podium in the operational dress uniform

Feb. 7, 2022

You’re invited: 2022 State of the Coast Guard on Feb. 24

Here’s how to watch Adm. Schultz’s final address

Theresa Green, Sigonellas School Age Care (SAC) Operational Clerk, poses for a photo as “Civilian-in-the-Spotlight” onboard Naval Air Station Sigonella, Nov. 6, 2020. NAS Sigonella’s strategic location enables U.S. allied, and partner nation forces to deploy and respond as required to ensure security and stability in Europe, Africa and Central Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Triniti Lersch)

Feb. 7, 2022

Use your final Coast Guard service days training with civilian business leaders

Skillbridge Program helps bridge employment gap for transitioning members 

Petty Officer 2nd class Ty Hall takes a break during the workday to eat lunch on the mess deck with his shipmates. Food service specialists provide three meals a day to the Polar Star's crew. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Melissa McKenzie.

Feb. 4, 2022

Total Force Wellness Column: How to eat mindfully for weight loss 

EDITOR'S NOTE: As part of the Total Force Wellness Column, this article is written by the Human

A flotilla of Coast Guard landing craft evacuated a battalion of Marines surrounded at Point Cruz, Guadalcanal. For his heroism in this operation, Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro received the service’s only Medal of Honor. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Feb. 4, 2022

The Long Blue Line: 1942—Coast Guard’s history making year 80 years ago!

Remembering events from 1942

Rear Adm. William Kelly, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy superintendent, signs a memorandum of understanding with University of Massachusetts Chancellor, Marcelo Orozco, as part of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s Scholars Pilot program in Boston, January 28, 2022. The scholars program is intended to help students with a desire to join the Coast Guard choose an education path that will benefit them the most during their academic and military careers.(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Briana Carter)

Feb. 3, 2022

Coast Guard Academy forges partnership with University of Massachusetts; Coast Guard Academy to honor legacy of SPARs; Commemoration of Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn’s fallen  

Bravo Zulu!

Participants in the ground breaking ceremony shovel dirt, to signify the beginning of the energy microgrid project on U.S. Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) Petaluma, California, Jan. 28, 2022. The goal of the project is to allow TRACEN Petaluma to be able to produce their own power for up to 10-days of independent and full operations through the installation of five megawatts of solar photovoltaic and 11.6 megawatt hours of battery storage. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Taylor Bacon)

Feb. 3, 2022

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard holds renewable energy microgrid groundbreaking ceremony in Petaluma, California and more

Coast Guard holds renewable energy microgrid groundbreaking ceremony in Petaluma, California; Coast Guard, local responders recover deceased man, rescue woman in distress in ocean waters off ‘El Morro’ castle in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Coast Guard rescues 2 off Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

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Feb. 2, 2022

ALCGPSC 017/22: Assignment Year 2022 Commander Assignment Panel Results

Commander assignment slate for 2022

Petty Officer 1st Class Ali Blackburn, D17 Public Affairs Detachment Kodiak, Alaska, hold her 16-month-old daughter, Quinn, Aug. 8, 2021. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Feb. 2, 2022

Cutter and overseas deployment deferrals for 12 months postpartum 

Policy expands deployment options for Coast Guard personnel and their families 

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