Latest "Coast Guard Academy" stories

The new hats and shoulder bars for the graduates sit on a table before the start of the Coast Guard Academy's 141st Commencement Exercises, May 18, 2022, in New London, Conn.

Coast Guard Academy settles suit over policy banning parents

A Coast Guard Academy cadet who was expelled for becoming a father will get his degree as part of a legal settlement, his attorneys said Thursday.

4 months ago

Unvaccinated cadets ordered off Coast Guard Academy campus

The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

5 months ago

Expelled Coast Guard cadet sues over policy banning parents

The ban was introduced in the late 1970s, just after the academy began admitting women.

14 months ago

‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies

Some students of color have spotlighted what they see as systemic racism and discrimination at the academies by creating Instagram accounts to relate their personal experiences.

By Aaron Morrison, Helen Wieffering and Noreen Nasir

14 months ago

Here’s why the command master chief of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy was fired

Coast Guard Investigative Service agents discovered that U.S. Coast Guard Academy Command Master Chief Brett VerHulst had a history of inappropriate physical contact with female cadets, enlisted personnel and officers.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

17 months ago

Biden celebrates Coast Guard in commencement address, stresses role on world stage

The president used the speech to position the United States as a defender of global rules, trade and marine law, specifically in the South China Sea and the Arctic.

By Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press

21 months ago