A Coastie’s best friend—Over 80 years of Coast Guard canines!
As new mission threats have evolved, the Coast Guard’s canine team capability has also evolved.
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Station Nome—Saving Lives at the Edge of the Arctic
On a beach with no harbor, at the end of a thousand‑mile supply line, a tiny crew rowed through Bering Sea surf, drove dogsleds in –40 degree below zero winters, fought fire and flu, and helped care for Native communities—all from the most isolated lifesaving station the service ever ran.
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C.W. Lawrence—Tamer of America’s maritime frontier and first PACAREA cutter
Amid Gold Rush anarchy, the first Pacific cutter stood the law: breaking smuggling, stopping mutiny, rescuing crews, and charting CA’s coast.
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Coast Guard PSUs—nearly 45 years of service!
With the need for maintaining security zones at anchorages, in the seaway, and alongside ships offloading military cargoes, the role and training for port security forces emerged as a priority for the Coast Guard.
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Alexander Hamilton and the Coast Guard as a U.S. Military Service
From Hamilton’s “few armed vessels” to cutters and LEDETs in modern war zones, a small revenue force evolved into a full-fledged armed service that has answered every call from the age of sail to the Global War on Terrorism.
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Iceberg Smith and the 1931 Graf Zeppelin Arctic Expedition
Suspended above uncharted ice in a heated cabin, a young Coast Guard scientist watched the Graf Zeppelin map islands, mountains, and sea ice no one had ever seen from the air—and foresaw how aviation would transform Arctic safety.
