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Feb. 12, 2026
Service uses your feedback to improve Coast Guard-managed housing
With a record 44% response rate, your feedback is now driving the future of the Coast Guard’s housing program.

PIE Program volunteers from Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston a 2025 PIE Award winner at USCG STEM NOLA Buoyancy & Density Workshop at San Jacinto College Maritime Campus, LaPorte, TX. From left to right: AUX Glenn A. Colaco, LTJG Thomas D. Unger, MST1 (now ENS) Brandon R. Nidiffer, ENS (now LTJG) Catarina L. Goncalves, MCPO Jenell D. Kindregan, ENS (now LTJG) Zachary O. Broomfield, CDR Kelly M. Brown, and LT Phung P. Pham. Photo taken by STEM NOLA photographer.
Feb. 11, 2026
Increasing Awareness of the Coast Guard, its Missions, and Career Opportunities
 Partnerships in Education (PIE) Program recognizes winners of 2025 PIE Awards.

USS Serpens at anchor somewhere in the Pacific islands with derricks extended to take on cargo. (U.S. Navy)
Feb. 11, 2026
USS Serpens—Coast Guard’s worst loss of life over 80 years ago
A vital supply line in the Pacific, the USS Serpens was destroyed in one of the largest disasters in U.S. Coast Guard history.

The Veteran Ventures Program (VVP)
Feb. 10, 2026
Turn your business idea into a reality
Apply now for the Spring 2026 Veteran Ventures Program Cohort.

LT Gay lord Amores, with the U.S. Coast Guard, talks with Alan Nogy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District chief of the locks and dams branch, while waiting for the first commercial towboat to navigate through the newly-opened channel at Monongahela River Locks and Dam 3 in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, Sept. 5, 2024.  (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District photo by Michel Sauret)
Feb. 9, 2026
From the Philippines to Pittsburgh: A Coast Guard journey
How a Capsized Vessel and Port State Control Vessel Exams changed LCDR select Gay lord Amores’s life.

U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Rugby 7s players gain possession during the 6th annual Armed Forces Women’s Rugby Championship in Chula Vista, California, Sept., 2025. The tournament brings together athletes from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard for elite-level competition. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Annika Hirschler)
Feb. 9, 2026
Coast Guard expands sports grant program for 2026
 Active-duty members can now receive up to $200 for individual sports competitions to promote health and readiness.

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Jan. 30, 2026
Commandant issues Action Order to combat sexual assault
Every Coast Guard member has a duty and responsibility to take action to prevent and respond to sexual assault.

Right: Photograph of U.S. Life-Saving Service head, Sumner Kimball, late in his career. (U.S. Coast Guard) Left: Official photograph of Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh during his term in office. (Library of Congress)
Jan. 30, 2026
From near extinction to rebirth—Coast Guard’s first reorganization began 150 years ago!
A reorganization driven by the Progressive Movement transformed two 19th-century civilian agencies into the modern U.S. Coast Guard.
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