Heroes of history: USS Leonard Wood crewmember Burton Cary
Seventy years ago this month, New Orleans native Burton Cary boarded a train headed to the resort hotel Ponce De Leon in St. Augustine, Fla., for Coast Guard boot camp. After 10 weeks of training as Company “J1,” he [...]
Coast Guard and Marine Corps host tour for Boy and Girl Scouts
To be prepared, a group of Boy and Girls Scouts got a glimpse of service members who are always ready and always faithful. Several Boys and Girls Scouts toured Coast Guard Sector New Orleans and the Marine Corps Support [...]
When lives are on the line
Thousands of Coast Guard personnel are stationed throughout the United States and abroad carrying out the service’s 11 statutory missions, but Coast Guard members don’t always accomplish these missions alone. In addition to working with other federal, state and local responders [...]
Myth abuse: Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
Ostriches hide their heads in the sand, Twinkies last forever and the U.S. Coast Guard is not really the military. One might doth protest, but these commonly accepted “facts” are erroneously considered universal truths. They are, however, truth be told, [...]
Heroes of history: In remembrance of William A. Barnes
Born on the 15th of July in 1920 and died on the 15th of March 2013, William A. Barnes is now Clarksdale, Mississippi’s most legendary resident. As he rests in peace in Jackson, Miss., Barnes shares citizenship with [...]
Texas City Coast Guard members teach basic damage control
While many of the Coast Guard’s missions focus on preventing bad things from happening or managing them when they do, one successful tactic in keeping people safe it education. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Mike Draughon, a crewmember with [...]
Critical mass rescue training
When anyone thinks of a tabletop exercise, the first thing that may come to mind is Dungeons and Dragons. But one type of tabletop exercise is no game; it is in fact training several agencies in preparation for ultimate mission [...]
Station New Orleans: Protecting the gateway to global commerce
America is currently besieged by a very particular fear. It is a fear of not enough, a universal fear. It is a fear of not enough money and not enough jobs. It is a fear for the future. [...]
Evolving Dreams: How History Inspires the Future
If we look back through the lens of the present, we can see that small events in our history can alter the very course of the future. Many of those events come from amazing women such as Clara Barton, who [...]
A modern day Wonder Woman: MSU Port Arthur reservist recognized as a super performer
The Coast Guard is full of everyday heroes. Men and women who risk their lives to save mariners in distress, protect our nation’s coastal resources and facilitate the flow of commerce on America’s waterways. While the first thing that may [...]
