Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso

February 16

US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT

1926  Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to “acquire a site at New London, Connecticut, without cost to United States, and construct thereon buildings for the United States Coast Guard Academy at a total cost not to exceed $1,750,000.”

February 17

USCGC Nike, same class as the ships of the West Coast Squadron

1934  CGCs Daphne, Hermes, Perseus, Aurora, and Calypso stood out from New York harbor, bound for their new duty station on the West Coast.  They arrived safely in San Diego, California on March 21, 1934 after passing through the Panama Canal.  The cutters formed and were referred to as the “West Coast Squadron” of the Coast Guard.

Operation Catchpole, February 1944. U.S. Marines who died from wounds received in the attack on Parry Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, being transferred from transport to be carried to beach for burial. Photograph received February 22, 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/25). Accession #: 80-G-216210

1944  Coast Guardsmen participated in the invasions of Eniwetok and Engebi, Marshall Island.

USCGC CASCO 1961

1956  CGC Casco saved 21 persons from a U.S. Navy seaplane that was forced to ditch 100 miles south of Bermuda. The cutter then took the disabled seaplane under tow and delivered both the survivors and the seaplane to the Naval Air Station at St. Georgia Harbor, Bermuda.