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3D Printing is Saving the U.S. Coast Guard Serious Money

Published Feb 19, 2024 9:18 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Government

  [By Jamie Rand, Consultant C5ISC] Just as traffic lights and road signs inform drivers and warn them about upcoming h...

Rollin Fitch, Hero of the Attack Transport Callaway

Published Feb 4, 2024 11:51 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Government

  [By PAC Corinne Zilnicki] An imposing convoy of warships cut through the waters of the Lingayen Gulf northwest of the...

The First American Transit of the Northwest Passage

Published Jan 7, 2024 8:03 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Shipping

Four hundred and sixty years. That was the span of time that separated the first attempt, in 1497, to discover and navigate a...

Remembering 9/11: Lt. Michael Day and the Lower Manhattan Boatlift

Published Sep 10, 2023 1:54 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Tugs & Salvage

On September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Michael Day was working at Coast Guard Activities New York preparing to leave for a me...

Robert Canavan's Impossible Story of Survival at Guadalcanal

Published Aug 13, 2023 5:33 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Government

[By William H. Thiesen, Ph.D., Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian] In August 1942, during the initial stages of World War II&r...

The Rescue of the Submarine USS Squalus

Published Jul 23, 2023 5:36 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Tugs & Salvage

Most of the rescue missions carried out by the United States Coast Guard and its predecessor agencies (i.e., the U.S. Life-Saving...

The Forgotten Evacuation of Wake Island

Published Jul 9, 2023 6:40 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Tugs & Salvage

[By Retired Commander Tom Beard, United States Coast Guard] At 10:40 p.m. local time, Super Typhoon Sarah’s core smacked...

The Daring Rescue of the Ephraim Williams

Published Apr 23, 2023 1:36 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Tugs & Salvage

Editor’s note: On December 22, 1884, began one of the most daring and dangerous U.S. Life-Saving Service rescues up to that...

U.S. Coast Guard Responds to Deadly Surge in Migration at Sea

Published Jan 29, 2023 5:56 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Government

[By PO1 Nicole J. Groll] Homeland Security Task Force – Southeast's Operation Vigilant Sentry was first approved in 2...

USCGA Partners With Harrison Fitch Fund to Right a Historic Wrong

Published Dec 16, 2022 6:27 PM by U.S. Coast Guard News

Posted in: Government

Nearly 90 years after a racist incident, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the keepers of the legacy of an African-American trailbl...

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