SAUSALITO, Calif. (KGO) -- It was a short ceremony, but one that does not happen very often. Friday morning in Sausalito, Coast Guard officers from Golden Gate Station applauded as Petty Officer 1st ...

SAUSALITO (CBS SF) -- Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Krystyna Duffy became the fourth active female surfman in the service during a ceremony at Coast Guard Station Golden Gate in Sausalito Friday ...

Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Preiser (surfman #535) operates a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat in the surf near Brookings, Oregon, Dec. 13, 2019. Surfman is the pinnacle of the five certifications available to ...

Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Krystyna Duffy will become the fourth active female surfman in the service during a ceremony at Coast Guard Station Golden Gate in Sausalito Friday. The surfman ...

ASTORIA, Ore. – Tyler Bartel chats casually with one hand on the wheel as he steers a 47-foot boat over swells peaking 2 to 4 feet high. The waters at the mouth of the Columbia River appear calm, but ...

Petty Officer 1st Class Victoria Hansen (right), Surfman #484 and an instructor at the National Motor Life Boat School in Ilwaco, Washington, operates a 47-foot Motor Life Boat in 2019 while training ...

CHARLESTON — The Surfman is an elite group in the U.S. Coast Guard and BM2 Rachel LaFevre just became the 14th woman to receive the designation. “There are 14 women as Surfman in the Coast Guard now,” ...

Fifteen years ago, Scituate resident and Chief Warrant Officer Robert A. Canepa, a young Coast Guard petty officer at the time serving in the Pacific Northwest, was presented with his sector’s Joshua ...

ASTORIA, Ore. – Tyler Bartel chats casually with one hand on the wheel as he steers a 47-foot boat over swells peaking 2 to 4 feet high. The waters at the mouth of the Columbia River appear calm, but ...