- Announced Annual Awards:
- Large Unit History Award Winner: USCG Air Station Clearwater. The volunteers at Air Station Clearwater restored HU-16e “Goat” CGNR 1023 after rescuing it from the now-closed Pate Aviation Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The restoration coincided with the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the Grumman HU-16 Albatross into the Coast Guard fleet and the 35th anniversary of the unit’s move from St. Petersburg to Clearwater, as well as the centennial of naval aviation. CG-1023 now commemorates the crew of the CG 1240, lost in the fog on a rescue attempt on 6 March 1967.
- Small Unit History Award Winner: Station Hatteras Inlet. Station Hatteras Inlet has helped reinstitute an American pastime, the beach cart drill, as conducted by the crews of the United States Life-Saving Service in the years preceding the creation of the Coast Guard. The all-volunteer crew collaborates with the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Museum to present the drill twice a week, utilizing only the tools available to 19th-century lifesaving crews. The unit also works in conjunction with the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teachers in presenting an annual one-week “Guardians of the Sea” seminar for visiting teachers from throughout the state, and participates in the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Museum’s annual Heroes Day celebration, among other ongoing projects dedicated to the heritage of the service both locally and nationally.
- Book awards.
- Coast Guard Heritage: Dr. C. Douglas Kroll’s book, A Coast Guardsman’s History of the U.S. Coast Guard. The award committee found his book to be a unique exploration of era-specific heroes, well-researched, an easy read, and an unprecedented contribution to the field of Coast Guard history.
- Steve Murray: Guardians of the Hereford Inlet. The award committee described his book as a prime example of how an American lighthouse history book should be written, detailing both sides of the maritime disaster prevention and search and rescue response story.
- Heritage Award: Robert M. Green, USCG auxiliary. Mr. Green, the graphics branch chief of the USCG Auxiliary National staff, took it upon himself to create a Coast Guard heraldry manual. His work is comprehensive, professionally written, and the first attempt at the establishment of Coast Guard-wide standards of heraldry guidelines to be adhered to in all situations, including use by the media.
- Continued sponsorship of Coast Guard History Award to the Honor Graduate of each Chief Warrant Officer Professional Development Class.
- Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.
