Wanted: Shipmates of the Week
Friday, January 6, 2012
A year ago, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp introduced the Shipmate of the Week series as an opportunity for members of the Coast Guard family – active, reserve, civilian, auxiliary, retirees, family members, and Coast Guard supporters outside our service to be featured on Compass. We kicked off 2011 with the story of Petty [...]
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History: Arctic rescue changes face of Coast Guard operations
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Co-authored by Ademide Adedokun. Thirty-one years ago today, the Coast Guard led one of the nation’s largest search and rescue cases when the 519 passengers and crew of the Dutch cruise liner Prinsendam were forced to abandon ship more than 150-miles off the coast of Alaska after an engine room fire spread throughout the vessel. [...]
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Remembering Douglas Munro: Cmdr. Douglas Sheehan
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
For the Coast Guardsman, the name Munro is steeped in honor and history. As the only member of the nation’s longest serving naval service to be awarded the Medal of Honor, Douglas Munro has had Coast Guard cutters named in his honor and buildings at Cape May and the Coast Guard Academy bear his name [...]
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Coast Guard cutter to be named for Joshua James
Monday, September 12, 2011
Last week, the Coast Guard announced that the fifth of eight planned national security cutters would be built and named in honor of service legend Joshua James – credited with saving more than 600 souls along the New England coastline over a nearly 60-year career in the U.S. Life-Saving Service. “Our new national security cutters [...]
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Building the national security cutter: 100 tons of steel
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
You see them everyday on America’s waterways. They have been spotted responding to humanitarian disasters across the world. And, they support the Department of Defense in times of conflict. We are, of course, talking about the Coast Guard cutter fleet. But, where do these cutters come from? Over the next three years, we’ll take you [...]
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The case for the national security cutter
Thursday, August 11, 2011
For the past several months, Coast Guard Compass has taken you aboard Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf with reports from the commanding and executive officers on operations in the Bering Sea and the Western Pacific. That unique perspective “From the bridge of the Bertholf” details the the services the national security cutter provides the nation. Today, [...]
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Shipmate of the Week – Abby Sunderland
Friday, August 5, 2011
In February 2010, Abby Sunderland set sail from Southern California with dreams of becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe in a sail boat. Her quest came to an abrupt end four months later when her vessel was rolled and demasted by a massive wave in the Southern Indian Ocean as she braved 60-knot [...]
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President Obama’s birthday message to the Coast Guard
Thursday, August 4, 2011
UPDATE: Paragraph one has been corrected to reflect that the Stratton will be the third of eight planned national security cutters and not the fifth. President Obama has a special relationship with the Coast Guard. In addition to being our Commander-in-Chief, he shares a birthday with the nation’s oldest continuous naval service and his wife, [...]
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Military leaders salute Coast Guard on our birthday
Thursday, August 4, 2011
As the Coast Guard family celebrates 221 years of service to the nation, we are reminded of the close bonds we share with America’s other military services. Earlier today, Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wished the Coast Guard a happy 221st birthday on his blog: From humble beginnings, the United [...]
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Celebrating 221 years of service
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
On August 4, 1790, President George Washington put pen to paper and created the Revenue Cutter Service. That service of “a few armed vessels, judiciously stationed at the entrances of our ports, might at a small expense be made useful sentinels of the laws” has grown into America’s maritime first responder. For 221 years, the [...]
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