As a graduate of the last all-male Coast Guard Academy class and the son of a service mom who opposed women in the military, I might seem to be a ripe pick to be a social dinosaur, eager to resist ...

Women “add value” to the maritime service, said Janelle Oveson, a former Sherborn resident who served for five years. She is now a Coast Guard Academy admissions partner.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced its largest drug offload in history at Port Everglades in South Florida on Monday, totaling ...

Women have served vital roles in the Coast Guard dating back to its predecessor services. Women filled the role as lighthouse keepers in the Lighthouse Service; during World War II women served as ...

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a record 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana in what officials called the ...

The Coast Guard is the only military service that women can do any type of job, while all the other ones have something specific that women cannot do. So I think that's a real lure for the women ...

Later in 1942, she was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard to organize its first women's reserve during World War II. Stratton coined the reserve's name, SPARS, by using the first letters of the Coast ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Leadership Initiative held a health symposium at the Coast Guard Academy in New London to mark Women’s History Month. The symposium focused on topics of women’s ...

The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard told lawmakers that the service is on a “good trajectory” to “bringing more women into our flag ranks” as a critical cog in a multi-faceted strategy to ...

At the Coast Guard Academy, which is overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, Fitzpatrick and other alumnae from that first class of women were being acknowledged at a reporting-in ...

This is primarily because women have only been allowed to serve in combat positions at sea and in the air since 1993-94, unlike the Coast Guard who opened all billets in 1977.