Coast Guard Academy

As Thanksgiving approaches, in-person learning for the fall semester is winding down at colleges and universities across the country. The first semester back during the pandemic proved difficult for many institutions, overshadowed by COVID-19 outbreaks. But two New London institutions were able to avoid any large outbreaks or mass quarantines. Connecticut College, a small liberal arts college, and the United…

In an NBC Connecticut exclusive, we get a look inside a unique COVID testing program at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

All classes at the Coast Guard Academy will be virtual Thursday after a cadet tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson for the academy said the academy will conduct mass testing to learn more about the potential spread of the virus on campus. Coast Guard Academy officials learned of the cadet’s positive case late Wednesday through the random testing program....

Cadets from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are being credited with saving a national security mission after COVID-19 sidelined a tenth of a Coast Guard Cutter’s crew. The Coast Guard Cutter Munro was just getting underway in June when a crew member tested positive for the virus. After contact tracing was completed, 18 crew members had to be taken...

Several Coast Guard cadets helped complete a mission when COVID-19 sidelined part of the crew.

The US Coast Guard Academy’s class of 2024 kicked off training in New London Wednesday. The training for the freshmen, traditionally called Swab Summer, looked very different from previous years. “We are not being yelled at, at all, and they are being very nice to us which is scary because I was expecting them to yell at us,” said Sidney…

The Coast Guard Academy failed to properly investigate, track and discipline several race-based harassment claims, according to a newly published report from the Office of Inspector General. The OIG, under the Department of Homeland Security, launched an investigation into the CGA in 2018 and evaluated how the Academy handled race-based harassment incidents and allegations during a five year period, from…

Rear Admiral William Kelly, superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy, discusses an Office of Inspector General report that the CGA failed to properly investigate race-based harassment claims.

The Dept. of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General released a report saying the U.S. Coast Guard Academy needs to better handle investigating racial incidents at the service school

The United States Coast Guard Academy is preparing for a historic graduation ceremony. On May 20 the academy will graduate its largest class, the class with the most female cadets and the first class to ever attend a US military academy graduation hosted entirely online. “A lot of firsts,” said Rear Admiral William Kelly, the superintendent of the US Coast…

This is the Coast Guard’s largest class and the only graduation to be done virtually.

The faculty at the Coast Guard Academy in New London is testing making masks on 3D printers to help with the PPE shortage

With stories of personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages across the country, people have taken to their 3D printers to make masks of their own in an effort to help those on the front lines. The question remains: which design is the most effective? A team of faculty members at the Coast Guard Academy in New London are working to answer…

Former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen spoke with Coast Guard members at the Academy in New London on Thursday and said it was unacceptable that they weren’t being paid during the shutdown.

Eight Connecticut residents are now some of the U.S. Coast Guard’s newest commissioned officers.

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has told 240 new Coast Guard Academy graduates they will help lead the way in “reasserting American leadership in the Arctic.”

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is scheduled to deliver the keynote address later this month during graduation ceremonies at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.

Coast Guard families in Connecticut are breathing a sigh of relief after President Trump signed the government funding bill into law on Friday.

It’s been a turbulent couple of months for Coast Guard families who were not getting paid during the partial government shutdown and then, with uncertainty surrounding a stopgap bill that temporarily reopened the government through Friday, wondered if it would happen again.

It has become the norm to see Coast Guard men and women, some in uniform, in the aisles of the pop-up food pantry at the Coast Guard Academy in New London.