The plan also calls for reducing the number of admirals by 25%, boosting recruiting efforts and increasing the fleet, including icebreakers that are used in the Arctic. “A new chapter for America’s ...

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 ...

In 2024, the Coast Guard took additional actions to reach potential recruits by expanding the number of recruiting office locations, initiating new outreach efforts, offering bonuses to eligible ...

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 ...

A Coast Guard member from Wakefield is nearly done with a grueling workout challenge months in the making.For 100 days, ...

Barnstable High School is hosting the first U.S. Coast Guard JROTC program in the Northeast, out of 14 nationwide.

The Coast Guard released its executive report detailing Force Design 2028, an initiative to reorganize the service, address its workforce shortfalls and streamline the purchase of vessels and new ...

A dramatic viral video from the Coast Guard shows service members completing a swift and precise drug interdiction against smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Members of the small-boat crew US ...

The Coast Guard is facing a “readiness crisis” that has been “decades in the making,” Adm. Kevin Lunday, the acting commandant of the service, acknowledged Monday. Lunday and Homeland ...

Delays and over costs in multiple US Coast Guard (USCG) acquisition and development programmes, alongside a growing demand for the branch’s support in law enforcement and board control missions, have ...