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Members of the National Coast Guard Museum team will be participating in various events around the country as the team moves from the design to construction stage of this historic project.
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Hero without a headstone—Forgotten keeper Joseph Doyle and his Gold Lifesaving Medal rescues
The weather was horrific with dark skies, steady rain, and tumultuous seas. The keeper and his crew were quickly away and encountering “fearful seas.”
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Raising “The White Picket Fence”—the origin of the Coast Guard’s Haitian Migration Interdiction Operations
While 1980 is most remembered for the arrival of 125,00 Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift, thousands of Haitians also arrived in south Florida by sea that same year. They were collectively referred to as “Cuban-Haitian Entrants.”
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SS Steel Executive—An impossible and heroic aviation medevac in the fog
Lewis had to make what he considered to be one of the most crucial decisions of his life. Peering at the fog below him, he remembers asking himself a question to plunge or not to plunge…
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The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr
"On August 31 the American Steamer George E Starr was seized on Puget Sound by a detail of four officers and 18 men sent from the Wolcott. Two Chinese subjects, together with a quantity of opium, were discovered secreted on board. "
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Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty—Foundational principles of Coast Guard culture
Three decades after Adm. John Klime officially promulgated the service’s core values as “Honor, Respect, and Devotion to Duty,” these core values stand the test of time.
"The National Coast Guard Museum remains the Service's top philanthropic priority. I am very excited about the forthcoming National Coast Guard Museum!"
ADM Linda Fagan - Commandant, United States Coast Guard