The trend turned around in 2024 with retention-focused surveys and expanding recruiting outreach efforts, but the Coast Guard still can’t pinpoint precisely what needs to be done to better ...

At the request of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published two reports addressing the U.S. Coast Guard recruiting and ...

The Navy has unveiled programs to widen the pool of possible recruits, and the Coast Guard has opened half a dozen recruiting offices ... “My generation is a real challenge,” 25-year-old ...

DHS says the Biden administration failed to meet Coast Guard recruiting goals for three years straight. During that period, 10 cutters were taken out of service and almost 30 Coast Guard stations ...

Instead of getting more, the Coast Guard is getting less. These concerns are exacerbated by recruiting challenges and insufficient funding, which jeopardize the service’s ability to meet its ...

CAPE MAY — Warren Judge first came to Cape May as a Coast Guard recruit on Aug. 19 ... Felger faced a challenge to keep training underway. “This is the lifeblood of Coast Guard readiness.