VA Research: The VACO Index
The speed at which the virus we now call SARS-CoV-2 spread throughout the world in the spring of 2020 proved…
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Combat Nutrition: Feeding the Troops – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
There is no evidence that Napoleon Bonaparte, whose Grand Army conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, ever …
Alex Haley: Coast Guard’s First Chief Journalist Became Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
It’s literally one of a kind, the only Coast Guard cutter in the Alex Haley class of medium-endurance cutters: Affectionately…
Off and Running: Coast Guard Operationalizes Strategy to Fight Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing
It was a voyage to less-frequented waters. From late December 2020 to early March 2021, the newest Coast Guard national…
VA Research: Healing Brains and Bodies
It was a historic milestone, reported around the world, when it happened about a decade ago: Using the new investigational…
Legendary Coast Guard Cutters
Almost from the day the Coast Guard’s predecessor agency, the U.S. Revenue Marine, was created by law in 1790, its…
VA Research: Effective Treatments, Where Veterans Are
More than 20 years ago, Sheila Rauch, PhD, director of Mental Health Research at the Atlanta VA, began her career…
Rum War: The U.S. Coast Guard and Prohibition
On Jan. 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, banning the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages, became…
Service – And Presence – In the Arctic [Coast Guard OUTLOOK® 2020-2021 Edition]
For as long as the United States has been an Arctic nation, the U.S. Coast Guard and its predecessors have…
IUU Fishing: The Leading Global Maritime Threat [Coast Guard OUTLOOK® 2020-2021 edition]
In late July of 2020, when the Ecuadorian Navy discovered a fleet of more than 200 Chinese-flagged fishing vessels in…