The Dauntless Returns!

Petty Officer 1st Class Jamael Long, a Health Services Specialist aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless, greets his 2-week old daughter, Chloe, upon returning from a patrol.  The CGC Dauntless departed its homeport of Galveston, Texas, in January 2010, and returned Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Photo and caption by Petty Officer 1st Class Silvia Olvera

Blackthorn Remembered

Video by Galveston Daily News Today at Sector Field Office Galveston, Guardians honored the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn. The Blackthorn, a 180-foot buoy tender, was home-ported in Galveston from 1976, until 1980, when it sank off the western coast of Florida after colliding with a tanker vessel. For an article and media [...]

Historic Hoist

Sector Field Office Galveston crews recently helped a Navy crew retrieve Civil War artifacts and unexploded ordinance from a sunken Civil War vessel.

Reading King

ET2 Wessley King, from SFO Galveston, recently paid a visit to a group of students at Fritz Barnett Intermediate School in Santa Fe, Texas, to talk about what the Coast Guard is all about.  He also read from a Coast Guard coloring book that the students had colored the week before and answered all of their [...]