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North Carolina town honors fallen Coast Guardsman

On May 4th, more than 100 people braved the wet and dismal weather of Emerald Island, N.C., to honor Senior Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III, a Coast Guard hero. Horne tragically lost his life in the line of duty [...]

Lt. Cmdr. Peggy Britton speaks to those who joined the Coast Guard's Leadership and Diversity Advisory Council at Training Center Yorktown, April 10, 2013. U.S. Coast Guard by Petty Officer 2nd class Walter Shinn

Training Center Yorktown hosts leadership panel: “Women–Can You Have It All?”

On April 10, 2013, Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown’s Leadership and Diversity Advisory Council presented a first-of-its-kind, leadership luncheon and panel discussion entitled “Women: Can You Have It All?” More than 110 Coast Guard men and women from the TRACEN [...]

Coast Guard Special Missions Training Center receives Kimball Award

Story by Lt. Julie E. Sieker and Seaman Nicole Groll On April 18, 2013, members of the Coast Guard Special Missions Training Center Boat Tactics Branch, located at Camp Lejeune, N.C., were presented with the Sumner I. Kimball Readiness Award [...]

The key speakers for Cyber Guardian 2013 are shown here, April 24, 2013. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Coast Guard on leading edge with Cyber Guardian exercise

Story by Lt. Mark Briggs Coast Guard Sector North Carolina and the North Carolina Area Maritime Security Committee conducted a Cyber Terrorism Tabletop Exercise, Cyber Guardian 2013 on Wednesday. Cyber Guardian 2013 was designed to provide personnel from Sector North [...]

Non-rates from around Sector Baltimore take part in the non-rate career fair, which had representatives from almost every rate, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The local Leadership and Diversity Advisory Council, and chief’s mess discussed and put together the fair as a way to keep non-rates inspired and motivated while they wait orders to go to A-school. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Bill Putnam

Coast Guard Sector Baltimore hosts non-rate career fair

Post written by PA2 David R. Marin and PA1 Brandyn Hill Coast Guard Sector Baltimore opened its doors to host 87 non-rates and 10 Coast Guard hopefuls as part of a non-rate fair held in the Columbus Recreation Center at [...]

Capt. Reed Stephenson, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, delivers opening remarks to base personnel participating in the inaugural "Speed Mentoring" professional development event hosted by the base Leadership and Diversity Advisory Counci, Feb. 12, 2013. The forum was created as an informal method to promote leadership and mentoring throughout the base. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Dodson.

Training Center Yorktown hosts inaugural Speed Mentoring event

Post written by Lt.j.g. Marquesio Robinson, Petty Officer 1st Class Brent Pearson and Lt. Andrew Vicks Seventy servicemembers recently participated in Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown’s inaugural Speed Mentoring event held at the Port of York on the base Feb. [...]

Lt. Layth Adil Abdulnabi Aljabi, a member of the Iraq navy and student of International Maritime Officers Course 48, stands with his classmates during a graduation ceremony at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, Va., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. IMOC 48 is the largest graduating class in the school's 17-year history consisting of 40 students from 28 partner nations. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Brandyn Hill

Coast Guard holds largest International Maritime Officers Course graduation

Story by Lt. Andrew Vicks Forty students from 28 partner nations graduated from the International Maritime Officers Course Thursday at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, marking the largest graduating class in the school’s 17-year history. Vice Adm. Manson K. Brown, [...]

Semper Paratus

Written by Cmdr. Rick Wester Saturday was the U.S. Coast Guard’s 222nd birthday, and marked the date on which the Tariff Act of 1790 authorized, at the suggestion of Alexander Hamilton, the building of ten cutters to assist in the collection [...]

Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Reynolds, a storekeeper stationed at Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., shows Fireman Mario Chen, a non-rate from the air station how to log air craft fuel receipts, July 11, 2012.

Earning his keep: A non-rate’s journey

Post written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cynthia Oldham Coast Guard non-rates, who are the service’s most junior members, often find themselves in some pretty undesirable positions: dangling from cutter hulls; in oily engine-room bilges; inside stinky, sea life-filled buoys; [...]

Painting depicting a famous rescue by members of the Pea Island Lifesaving Station.

Coast Guard honors historic Pea Island surfman during ceremony in NC

Story and photos by Lt. Todd Porter Benjamin Bowser Jr. was honored at his gravesite in Jarvisburg, N.C., June 11th. He was a surfman with the Pea Island Life-Saving Station, historically known as the only all-African American manned surf station, from [...]