Shipmate of the Week – LCDR Amy Florentino
Friday, February 3, 2012
Written by Joy Crabaugh. As the country moves into an increasingly austere budget environment, money-management practices are scrutinized ever more carefully. However, the Coast Guard’s organizational structure and variety of mission areas and assets has created unique challenges for its financial professionals working to ensure money is wisely spent. Lt. Cmdr. Amy Florentino is one [...]
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Keeping the Coast Guard airborne
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cory Mendenhall, 11th Coast Guard District public affairs. In today’s world it has become quite normal to view jobs that require using your hands or getting them dirty as undesirable. There seems to be a collective dismissing of the importance and merit of manual labor. Skilled tradesmen not only [...]
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Auxiliary training meeting advances mission readiness
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
On Saturday, Coast Guard Vice Commandant Vice Adm. Sally Brice-O’Hara addressed the Coast Guard Auxiliary’s National Training Meeting (N-Train) in St. Louis, Mo. This annual event is a time for the volunteer organization’s leaders to focus on building the competencies of its members. Classes and workshops covered topics such as effective teaching, public education, information [...]
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Laying to rest a Coast Guard veteran
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse, 7th Coast Guard District public affairs. The Greatest Generation came of age during a world at war and created a lasting legacy that has shaped us all and the communities we live in. One of the members of this generation was Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Frank [...]
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The manners of our profession: remembering lives that ended tragically and too soon
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Yesterday marked 32 years since the sinking of Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn. Twenty-three of the Blackthorn’s 50 crewmembers lost their lives during the Coast Guard’s worst peacetime disaster, and a memorial inscribed with the names of the crewmembers that perished now stands two miles north of the accident site. Vice Adm. Robert C. Parker, Atlantic [...]
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Shipmate of the Week – SN Charles Gray, Jarrod Reed & Pablo Taborda
Friday, January 27, 2012
“Land Ahoy!” Over centuries of maritime heritage, this phrase was shouted by a ship’s lookout when land was in sight. Traditionally, a lookout’s duty was to watch for vessels and hazards, such as reefs and shoals. The significance of standing a proper lookout aboard today’s ships still remains, and three crewmembers aboard Coast Guard Cutter [...]
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Sky is no longer the limit
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 1st Class NyxoLyno Cangemi. More than 100 cadets sat eagerly waiting while NASA’s live video stream played out on the screen in front of the small auditorium. On Jan. 24, members of the Coast Guard Academy‘s Aviation Club gathered to participate in a live video discussion with Daniel Burbank, a retired [...]
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Shipmate of the Week- Elaine Sevin
Friday, January 20, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicholas Ameen, 7th Coast Guard District public affairs. With more than 12,000 miles of coastline in the United States, every mariner has a responsibility to look after one another. This principle of being a shipmate is also true on land, as one Miami woman has shown through her unwavering [...]
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Shipmate of the Week: BM3 Tonya Midgett
Friday, January 13, 2012
East Coast towns battened down the hatches as Hurricane Irene reaped havoc in the summer of 2011, and the community of Cape Hatteras took the brunt of the storm’s torrential winds and rain; Irene was declared the worst natural disaster the area had ever experienced. As the population of 5,000 began counting their losses and [...]
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Have you voted?… 2011 Video of the Year
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
By now we hope you have watched all of our 2011 Video of the Year nominees. But, if you haven’t, there’s still time! “Polls” close this Friday so you can still have your voice heard in choosing the year’s most compelling Coast Guard video. We’ve tallied up the votes thus far, and it’s a close [...]
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