Happy 222nd birthday, United States Coast Guard

various | August 4, 2012

[EveningStar]

The United States Coast Guard was established August 4, 1790.

United States Coast Guard Tribute "Semper Paratus"

US Coast Guard home page

[Delta 21]

Coasties Rock !!!

[weps4ret]

Yes we do, and thank you for saying such Delta 21.

And thank you for your service!

Gunner

[CGASMIA68]

Semper Paratus
CGAS Miami best yrs of my life

[real saxophonist]

Semper Paratus

[bjorn14]

Puddle Pirates rock even more! ;-)

as a former Coastie myself (Group Boston HQ)

[osagebowman]

HBD Ramius
OB

[Puckster]

Semper Paratus

Or

“You have to go out, you don’t have to come back”!

US Coast Guard...1970-75

USCGC Sedge (Cordova, AK), Radio Operator School (Two-Rock-Ranch, CA), USCGRADSTA/NMO (Oahu, HI), USCGC Midgett (Alemada, CA).

Happy birthday everyone.

[CedarDave]

CG Cutters I served on:

The US Coast Guard Cutter Taney, now preserved at the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is the only surviving warship afloat today from the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. The Cutter also participated in the battles of the North Atlantic and Okinawa, and served as a mission and gunfire support ship in Vietnam.

Coast Guard patrol boat in Vietnam. Five and seven day patrols at sea in all weather conditions were common. The cutter carried a crew of thirteen plus a Vietnamese interpreter which made for very cramped quarters.

[onedoug]

Happy Birthday USCG.

Thanks for your service, CD.

[USCG SimTech]

I slept in TANEY berthing while the HAMILTON was in the yards in Baltimore. Taney was a training ship for steam propulsion plants in Baltimore, wasn’t it? I much later helped deliver BIBB (WHEC-31) out of New Bedford, MA to the salvage company as part of the post-decom crew. Then on to CHASE.

1971-1991 active duty USCG
1991-pres. contractor with USCGA

[IslamE]

Happy Birthday, The Coast Guard is great, it’s a shame they, like NASA, are the kings of affirmative action, I am so sick of how the government sees everyone as a hyphen!

[EveningStar]

it’s a shame they, like NASA, are the kings of affirmative action

You're saying they're more so than other government entities?

[Tijeras_Slim]

We miss you FRiend.

[bikerman]

Best 4 years of my youth.

[CedarDave]

Yes, enjoyed Tonk and his later work with the CG Auxiliary in Oregon.

[CedarDave]

I slept in TANEY berthing while the HAMILTON was in the yards in Baltimore.

Ha! Probably slept in the same bunk, though 20 years later! My time was in the mid-1960's out of Alameda, CA.

I'm glad that at least one of the 327 ft. cutters got saved. A grand relic of the age of steam - trains and ships.

[Ramius]

Thanks Mister Bowman!

85-89 here...
CGC Polar Sea, Seattle & CGC Resolute, Astoria