
March 7th, 2010 |
A great video was published today showing some of our Coasties involved in last weeks accident involving the CG-6028 in Utah. In this video we see CAPT John Hardin, AIRSTA Elizabeth City’s CO, giving a welcome home to Cmdr. Patrick Shaw (I remember when he was an LT), Petty Officer 3rd Class Darren M. Hicks, [...]

March 3rd, 2010 |

It a busy week for the folks at the U.S. Coast Guard Motion Picture & Television Office (yep, it’s a real office).
This is a yet another reminder (’cause I’ve been seeing them all week) to everyone that you can catch the airing of the new show Mayday! Bering Sea on the Discovery Channel tonight [...]

February 27th, 2010 |
Not that it’s really a question as much as a statement.

February 26th, 2010 |
[tweetmeme][fbshare]On the 3rd of September, that would be way back in 2009, the Coast Guard shook up the workforce with a revised tattoo policy basically bringing us back to the previous standard. ALCOAST 505/09: RELEASE OF UPDATED TATTOO, BODY MARKING, BODY PIERCING, AND MUTILATION POLICY, COMDTINST 1000.1B was/is a welcome policy change. In fact my [...]

February 25th, 2010 |
My friend and fellow public affairs social media guru, PA1 Susan Blake, left me a message via Facebook (are you a FAN yet?) the other day giving me a heads up on the video that was over on CGVI. The video is titled Mission Profile, JTF Haiti Relief and was put together by PA2 [...]

February 24th, 2010 |
You can consider this a “my homework comes before a post” post… remember the Coast Guard Obstacle Course post from a few months ago? Here it is again.

February 12th, 2010 |
U.S. Coast Guard photo/Telfair H. Brown Sr.
This is a reminder that the State of the Coast Guard address by ADM Allen will be held this afternoon (here on the East Coast) from 1300-1400. ADM Allen put out an all hands eMail with a follow up PDF version on his own site letting us/you all [...]