- The Spring issue of The Cutter celebrated its 20th anniversary since the first issue of The Cutter. The first issue, a two-page newsletter, has evolved into a quality magazine, often with 40+ pages of content.
- COVID-19 impacts our nation and the world. The FCGH annual awards are suspended due to many government operations being shut down.
- The Buffalo Naval Park advises the Coast Guard that they will break the agreement for hosting the Petri Coast Guard model collection at their museum. Arrangements are made for their professional removal and storage. The beginning of the story of the Petri models was told in the Bow Wave article of Cutter issue #35, Winter 2012, by Fred Herzberg.
- VADM Howard B. Thorsen, USCG (Ret.), CG Aviator 776 / Helo Pilot 442 / Ancient Albatross 13, and Chairman Emeritus of the Foundation, is introduced into the Coast Guard Aviation Association (CGAA) – “Pteros” – Hall of Honor (HOH).
- The Foundation supported the renovation of the Pentagon Coast Guard Memorial Hallway. Each service has a section along the hallway that showcases its history. The Coast Guard’s memorial, dating back to the 1980s, needed renovation. Because the memorial is located in the Pentagon, the revised memorial emphasizes wartime history.
- Started “Evening Reports” online history presentation via Zoom.
- Provided a Letter of Support to the Texas State Legislature in support of William Ray Flores’ nomination for the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor. Flores, an SN on the USCGC Blackthorn, made the ultimate sacrifice in the early evening as a crewmember of the 180-ft Blackthorn, which collided with the 605-ft SS Capricorn near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Blackthorn capsized and sank. Flores—only nineteen, and less than a year out of basic training—was seen with a shipmate passing out lifejackets. When the ship capsized, the shipmate entered the water, but he stayed behind, using his belt to tie the lifejacket locker door open, thereby ensuring that more jackets would float to the surface and assisting other shipmates. Flores, along with twenty-two other Coast Guardsmen, perished in the sinking, while twenty-seven shipmates survived; many of those survivors testified that Flores had played a major role in their survival. Flores would eventually have a cutter named after him.
- LCDR Tom Beard, USCG (ret.), editor of the FCGH book The Coast Guard, was awarded the Coast Guard’s Meritorious Public Service Award by Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz.
- Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.
