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Experience the Coast Guard
In this section you will hear stories of bravery and courage, rescues and drug busts, environmental pollution cleanup, terrorists, and notable off-duty accomplishments. These are real-life stories about Coast Guard men and women in action.
Coast Guardsmen come from all over the country and from all walks of life. Some have boating experience while others had never been on the water until joining the Coast Guard. In this section you can read profiles of Coast Guardsmen from across the country and throughout the world.
For more stories and additional information, visit Official Blog of the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Coast Guard Library.
He died April 24, 2004, with two U.S. Navy sailors. I was only eight years old. I couldn’t have even begun to comprehend that level of sacrifice then.
Since 1994, the Coast Guard has employed a strict method of tracking batteries used to power aids to navigation by assigning a unique serial number to each battery and tracking them in a database from the time it is purchased until it is recycled.
You may have heard of the Coast Guard’s National Motor Lifeboat School, the center for excellence that trains the Coast Guard’s lifesavers near the notoriously perilous Columbia River bar. The school is the only one of its kind in the United States, but that didn’t keep the school’s instructors from training Coast Guardsmen in the worst of conditions across the nation.
When the motor vessel Marine Electric was caught in a winter storm in the early hours of Feb. 12, 1983, their 605-foot ship capsized, tossing 34 crewmembers into the 39-degree waters east of Chincoteague, Va.
Catch the men and women in the Coast Guard performing their jobs, and letting you know how it feels to be out there in the middle of the action. Click the video to watch
In honor of the many contributions women have made in the history of our service, leaders of today’s Coast Guard are gathering to celebrate Women’s History Month.
Imagine for a moment if you opened your monthly electric bill and saw the amount of $165,000. Well, that is what Coast Guard Base Support Unit Honolulu sees on its average monthly statement.
Originally born in Venezuela, she’s been calling the U.S. her home for many years – now it’s official!
A crew of aquanauts - yes aquanauts! - left surface life and submerged themselves in the world's only undersea laboratory, Aquarius, for two weeks. They were participating in NEEMO 16, a mission designed to help mold future space missions.
On the clear, crisp morning of Dec. 17, the crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb helped load an 1,100 pound sea lion onto the deck of the buoy tender. Their mission today...
The Coast Guard rescued a black swan on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2009, after it was stuck to the ice and was unable to free itself. A team of four Coast Guardsmen from Station Lorain, Ohio...
As Hurricane Sandy approached land, the HMS Bounty and 16 sailors aboard were in dire need of help.
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cory J. Mendenhall.
It began with a 911 call from someone stranded aboard a 17-foot recreation boat that was soft aground in the low tide waters near the San Mateo Bridge.
We asked our Facebook fans if they could ask a buoy tender sailor anything, what would it be?
Terrell Jackson, pictured center, a Coast Guard trainee and senior at Fayetteville State University studying chemistry, received the Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) in the Military Leadership category, February 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Written by Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith
It takes vision to conceive of a project, but it takes perseverance, skill and hard work to bring it to completion. LCDR John F.
The decision to don a uniform and serve in the armed forces is one of the most significant decisions a young American can make.
Can you imagine what it would be like to deploy out of a helicopter over rocky cliffs and turbulent seas and swim in and back out of a cave with raging waves to rescue someone. Almost like a Hollywood movie, isn’t it?
LT Thomas Shuler is pioneering the Coast Guard's UAS (Unmanned Aerial Surveillance) program by earning the distinction of being our first operational Predator MQ-9 Pilot.
Becoming more environmentally friendly can be as simple as reducing water use and recycling plastic, aluminum and paper products. But one shipmate isn’t stopping there.
