U.S. Coast Guard News
Sharing the Memory of 9/11 With a New Generation
[By Kara Noto, MyCG] The events of Sept. 11 and the Coast Guard’s role as a first responder in New York Harbor are memori...
How 80 Coastguardsmen Saved Unalaska From the Spanish Flu Pandemic
[By BM1 William A. Bleyer, United States Coast Guard] "Occasion sometimes arise . . . in which the officers and crews...
Video: How Do You Deliver a K-9 Team Onto a Ship?
What do the Super Bowl, presidential inaugurations and maritime mass transit have in common? Coast Guard K-9 units on duty to serv...
The Legacy of the WWI Cutter Tampa
[By Nora L. Chidlow and Arlyn S. Danielson] Launched in 1912 and christened the Miami, Coast Guard Cutter Tampa was part of a s...
The U.S. Coast Guard's D-Day Saviors
[By Vivian Davis, daughter of Edmund Priestly, and William H. Thiesen, Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian] Edmund Lowry Priest...
The U.S. Coast Guard's Hurricane Dorian Response Effort
[By Cdr. Ace V. Castle] The U.S. Coast Guard’s response to Hurricane Dorian was unlike any storm response in history. Wit...
75 Years Ago: U.S. Coast Guard Operations at Okinawa
[By BM1 William A. Bleyer, U.S. Coast Guard] In late March 1945, nearly 1,300 ships of the Allied forces of America, Great Brit...
100 Years Ago: The Dawn of U.S. Coast Guard Aviation
[By John Moseley and William Thiesen] The Naval Appropriation Act of 1916 provided the authorization, but not the funding,...
75 Years Ago: The Assault on Iwo Jima
[By Dr. Robert M. Browning, U.S. Coast Guard (ret'd)] "The American flag was raised on top of Mt. Suribachi. Many a li...
USCG Launches Enforcement Action for ATB Tug Off Port Arthur
The Coast Guard is pursuing enforcement action against Bouchard Transportation Company after the shipping company failed to comply...