They'll compete in the elite 32-team field that includes the Coast Guard Academy women on Saturday in Newville, Pa. It will be the Bears' first appearance since 1992.

President Biden on Wednesday committed to ensuring more women reach the highest ranks of the armed forces as he celebrated Adm. Linda Fagan’s becoming the first female commandant of the Coast Guard.

WASHINGTON — Four women who attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, including a current cadet, are expected to appear at a congressional hearing Tuesday and testify that the agency’s leaders ...

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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 ...

Four women who attended the US Coast Guard Academy, including a current cadet, are expected to appear at a congressional hearing Tuesday and testify that the agency’s leaders failed to protect ...

Four women who say they were subjected to sexual assault and harassment at the US Coast Guard Academy testified to Congress on Tuesday about how they were silenced, retaliated against and left ...

He cited a study the Coast Guard completed last year in partnership with the Rand Corp. that analyzed female retention and subsequent solutions to keep more women serving as Coasties.

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.

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.