Danbury senior to attend Coast Guard Academy
Julia Striker: Pre-AIM Interview
What are your expectations going into AIM? That I will be challenged, create relationships with the people around me and learn what teamwork means. How have you prepared? In addition to my six-day per week swim practice schedule, I began incorporating more dryland work to prepare for the daily physical demands of AIM, and the […]
Coast Guard medevacs crewmember from fishing vessel 180 miles south of Pensacola, Florida
Coast Guard halts illegal charter in Tampa Bay
The Wait Is Over: 1/c Hannah Meisner’s Billet Night Experience
One of the culminating experiences of a cadet’s first class (senior) year—Billet Night. It’s the ceremony where cadets receive their first assignments upon graduation. Cadets submit a “dream sheet” of their top assignment choices weeks prior. They await Billet Night to see where they will be headed as newly-commissioned officers. What did you consider when […]
U.S. Coast Guard cadets station assignments revealed at ceremony
Building Resilience
I am an avid reader and enjoy selecting books which interest me outside of my required school reading. I found the book Resilience, by Eric Greitens, to be inspiring, captivating and relatable to many experiences in my own life. The book explores the virtue of resilience, its importance in life and why many people possess […]
U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, good Samaritans respond to 406 beacon in Federated States of Micronesia
Coast Guard Sector Juneau, contractors successfully recover submerged tugboat
Same but different; Eagle’s sister ship holds true to its vintage origin
