Monday marked day 1 of Swab Summer, an intense, seven-week training program for young people who are on a mission to join the ...

Staff Sgt. Bobby Carver presents Charlene Carden with a bouquet of yellow roses during the Georgia National Guard change of command ceremony on Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Jan. 26, 2019.

Coast Guard Reserve members assigned to Station Indian River, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, patrol the waters of Lewes, Delaware, in a 24-foot Special Purpose Craft-Shallow Water, April 20, 2018.

While the Coast Guard is part of the United States Armed Forces, it is not technically under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Defense. During peacetime, ...