“There is no secret that the Coast Guard is facing our toughest recruiting challenge in more than a decade,” Gilreath said. “Men and women assigned to the Fifth District fill large roles in ...

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 ...

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 ...