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AST3 Bean and the Selendang Ayu disaster 20 years ago!
—A Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technician fights to rescue the crew as the freighter breaks in two.
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FRC namesake Lawrence Lawson’s Thanksgiving Day rescue
—The crew sprang to their places at the oars, and when the next sea lifted the craft, the soldiers pushed it out and the oars were put in motion. The rescuing party was off on their perilous errand.
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Chief Gus Jablonski—Enlisted pioneer of helicopter flight
—Chief Gus Jablonski was a critical figure in the early days of helicopter development. His technical knowledge and hands-on skills helped helicopter turn Igor Sikorsky’s fragile machine into a tool that could do useful work for the military.
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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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Coast Guard’s Storm Warriors fought North Carolina’s Hurricane Florence
—Dropping more than 33 inches of rain in portions of North Carolina, the storm caused widespread destruction that people could never have imagined.
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Brazos Station’s Latino lifesavers and the catastrophic Florida Keys Hurricane
—The storm grazed the Florida Keys and slipped into the sheltered waters of the Gulf of Mexico before unleashing devastation in Texas.
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Lessons learned from 2017’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
—In Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the Coast Guard was Semper Paratus in responding to both hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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Remembering 9/11—a day that changed the Coast Guard forever
—The day war was declared on the Empire of Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt referred to Dec. 7, 1941, day of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, as “a date which will live in infamy.” Little did he know the nation would face a similar date nearly 60 years later.
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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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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…