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LEDETs—Over 40 years of law enforcement boarding missions
—Vessel boarding has been a time-honored skill set of the Coast Guard since its founding in 1790.
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Native Americans in the Coast Guard—Semper Paratus since 1815
—Native Americans have been members of the Coast Guard and its predecessor services for well over 200 years.
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Maturing and Making an Impact—Coast Guard Intelligence in the 1980s and 1990s
—In the early 1990s Coast Guard Intelligence made extensive contributions to mass migration preparation and response.
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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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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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Rogue cutter Madison—Remembering our first POWs 210 years ago
—Early in the War of 1812, the Madison had set sail on an unsanctioned cruise to capture British merchantmen. It would be the cutter’s last patrol.
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Sentinels of the past—the Coast Guard’s Civil War boat howitzers from the Revenue Cutter Service
—Learn how howitzer cannons have changed over time in size, shape, and utilization during their service.
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Devotion to Duty—Asian nationals serving in the Coast Guard
—Asian nationals began serving in the United States Coast Guard 175 years ago, playing an important role in the history of the Coast Guard’s ancestor agency of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.
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Charles Jones Soong—Cutterman and Powerful Chinese Patriarch
—Charles Jones Soong is the most famous individual of Chinese ancestry to serve in the United States Coast Guard. However, his fame is little known in the U.S. compared to his celebrity in the Far East.
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Dobbins and Knapp—Frontier Mariners, Naval Officers, and Revenue Cutter Masters
—The worst place for an American to be in the spring of 1812 was anywhere along the Canadian border—it was like a winding stretch of gunpowder ignited on one end.