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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
Story Roundup
Situation Report
Generals relieved it wasn’t a firing squad or Eyes Wide Shut reenactment
Oct 3, 2025 · 4 min read89 stories in this section
Next step: "Alpha male" former SOF bros running Coast Guard boot camp
May 8, 2024 · 3 min read
Seriously dude, time to step up.
Nov 6, 2023 · 2 min read
The working title, ‘Blow Whale,’ was dropped after a porn company sued for copyright infringement.
Apr 14, 2023 · 2 min read
PO1 finds religion
Apr 6, 2023 · 2 min read
“We see this sort of thing all the time," officials said.
Mar 28, 2023 · 2 min read
It was live-streamed on AOL.
Mar 28, 2023 · 2 min read
Gulp.
Mar 28, 2023 · 1 min read
Some people are visual learners.
Mar 28, 2023 · 2 min read
This follows the Navy's 2020 "Wayfair, you've got the Navy I need" program.
Mar 28, 2023 · 2 min readALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche returned home to Alameda on Sunday morning after seizing more than 4,000 pounds of Cheetos dust, with an
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min readCAPE MAY, N.J. — The Coast Guard’s newly adopted weight standards will allow members to be just fat enough to make people from other services jealous and
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min read
WASHINGTON — Coast Guard officials are preparing for the looming government shutdown, or “fundraising season” as they now call it, with a celebrity-hosted telethon, sources confirmed today. “Other
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min read
CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT — Witnesses in the southwestern corner of Washington state have reported that a 47-foot Coast Guard vessel was last seen having the time of its fucking
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min readWASHINGTON – The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) is investigating the death of Commandant of the Coast Guard Adm. Karl L. Schultz, whose body was discovered Sunday morning. Anonymous
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min readPETERSON AFB, Colo. — Since its inception in December 2019, Space Force stolen valor cases are on the climb. Rather than addressing the crisis, however, Space Force leaders kept
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min readWASHINGTON DC — A Coast Guard spokesperson has admitted that after the USCGC Kimball was forced to fire on a shark during the crew’s swim call, the service
Oct 5, 2022 · 2 min read
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Weeks after the Trump Boat Parade over Labor Day Weekend, the Fort Myers Beach Coast Guard Station is now at the center of a boater
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min read
CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. — Coast Guard Cutter Viking capsized off the Gulf Coast of Florida Friday, leaving all 34 of its crew members soaked and irritated. At approximately 5:
Oct 5, 2022 · 2 min read
Incredible
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min readSTURGEON BAY, WI – A Coast Guardsman was taken away from his barracks room in handcuffs today in what their Public Affairs Office has deemed a "bitter irony.
Oct 5, 2022 · 2 min readNEWBURYPORT, MA – Though it has been only a week since Seaman Apprentice Stacy Peters has graduated from Coast Guard Boot Camp, she is already drafting up dream careers
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 min readYou’re in
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