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Happy Birthday United States Coast Guard

218 Years of Service

Letter from CEO, Maj. Gen Thomas L Wilkerson to Admiral Thad Allen (pdf)

 

USCG Cutter Bertholf
USCG Cutter Bertholf

The US Naval Institute is proud to have a long-standing tradition of supporting the men and women of the United States Coast Guard in our Magazines, Photos, Oral History program, Video and Books.

 

 

 

 

Lifeboat Launching: Rockaway Point, NY 1929

August is the Coast Guard Issue in

Proceedings Magazine 

 A Perfect Fit for Africa
By Captain Phillip J. Heyl, U.S. Coast Guard
One Coast Guard cutter engaging with an island nation's coast guard creates a model for a continent's maritime security. More

 

Admiral Allen's Blue Tsunami
By Art Pine
The Coast Guard's dynamic, no-nonsense Commandant is roiling the waters at Headquarters off Buzzard Point. Can he succeed in steering the Coast Guard into the 21st century? More

 

USCG Cutter Ingram 1941
 USCG Cutter Ingram 1941

Coast Guard History Captured in

Naval History Magazine

Dangerous Duty in the North Atlantic

By Michael G. Walling
Slow but reliable, the Coast Guard's Secretary-class cutters were the backbone of the United States' North Atlantic escort force during World War II. More
 

 

 

Security Isn't Free

By Commander C. Douglas Kroll, U.S. Naval Reserve

Homeland defense is not new. The Coast Guard was charged 50 years ago with "weeding out" communists. The port security mission dates to the beginning of the 20th century, but the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 presented a different challenge. More

 

Naval Insititute Press Coast Guard Books

 

By Donald T. Phillips and

Adm. James M. Loy USCG (Ret.)

By Capt. George E Krietemeyer USCG (Ret.)

List Price: $16.95

Member Price: $13.56

List Price: $21.95

Member Price: $17.56

 

 

US Coast Guard Commemorated in Oral History Video and Photo

Watch Paul Yost recount his combat experience in Vietnam:

Read the Oral History Synopsis of his career. Be a part of preserving current Coast Guard Oral Histories: Admiral James Loy, Admiral Robert Kramek or read the synopsis of past Coast Guard Oral Histories:

Admiral Chester R Bender

Captain Walter C Capron

Admiral James S Gracey

Captain Earl K Rhodes

Admiral Alfred C Richmond

Admiral Edwin J Roland

Admiral Owen W Siler

Admiral Willard J Smith

 

 



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