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Has been in the national news almost everyday lately.
Loved by millions in USA and around the world.
Proven to help the disabled.
Understands the value of human life and that sometimes sacrifices have to be made to preserve as much.
Called upon in good times and bad.
See if you can guess who I am thinking of.
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MissBudweiser's doing her Marilyn Monroe impression, elbow-length white gloves and all:
"Hap-py Birth-day, Mis-ter Pres-i-dent ....."
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I wouldn't give that Son of a beach the time it took to start this thread.
Happy Birthday United States Coast Guard!
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All right - happy birthday U.S.C.G.!
A family Coast Guard story my dad liked to tell:
At the start of WWII all the boys my dad had grown up with in a small town here were busting to enlist, and they did. Except for one guy - he was chicken, and I guess in a later generation he would have been a hippie or a war protester. He did his best to stay out of the service.
Finally, the draft was breathing down his neck - and somebody in his family knew a congressman. They pulled strings and the kid got in the Coast Guard, which was about impossible to do at the time. He thought he had it made - he bragged that he'd just be patrolling New York Harbor or something.
Turns out that my dad went into Utah Beach on Normandy with the first wave on June 6, 1944 - but of course he only had to make the one landing. The guy who went into the Coast Guard was driving a landing craft at Omaha Beach, and he had to make lots of trips back and forth between the ships and the beach, landing troops under fire.
Dad liked that story - sometimes things work out the way they ought to.
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The Coast Guard is the hard nucleus of which the US Navy forms around in time of war.
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Sorry I guess I shouldn't bust on you Navy guys. I mean let's face it the Navy sailors did originate sex on the high seas, of course the Coast Guard perfected it by doing it with women.
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The Coast Guard are nothing more than sea bourn cops. During CNOPS they would board the ship, after we had secured it, to make arrests and mirandize our prisoners. I even saw one put metal hand cuffs on a prisoner I had already secured (ankles to wrists) with zipties. They also had the fancy drug sniffing gear (no dogs at sea).
Color me unimpressed by their “elite” legal detachments/boarding crews. The only thing that impressed me was that the cartels put a higher price on their heads than on ours. I guess that comes with the glory of claiming all the busts as their own.
In terms of ships…
They gots no missiles. They’re on the bottom before they know there’s an enemy. They’re good for rescuing civilians (SAR Dogs), tracking storms, writing tickets for too few life jackets, and arresting smugglers (after the navy has made the scene safe for them). They are only a step above police, and barely a military branch.
The ones I worked with were pretty dumb to boot (95% Bosun Mates).
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Ozark
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The Coast Guard are nothing more than sea bourn cops.
Yep, but we need some of those. The Coast Guard guys I admire the most are those you sometimes see on TV rescuing fishermen off Alaska with Arctic Ocean waves coming clear over the boats. The C.G. has some watertight rescue boats up there that can roll over like a kayak and come back up again. Then there's the helicopter rescues they pull off, too.
That'd be rough duty.
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Hey, their SAR Dogs are the best in the business, because they actually MAKE rescues all the time. I give 'em props where they deserve it.
I was SAR. It's actually pretty fun.
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I was on one of those roll over tubs day after Thanksgiving from one to 16 miles offshore in 1980. There was a noreaster blowing rain and snow with 60 + mph winds. Off shore waves/swells were between 30 and 40 footers the boat was 44' in length. Coming back in into the inlet is where it really got rough 18-22' breakers. The stern lifted and started to push up and starboard. I was on the port side holding onto a pole attaching the overhead. As the boat started to list to starboard I reached up with my right hand now holding the bar with both hands and instead of beig straight up and down it was flat, my feet were in the water about midships as it were and the snipe on the starboard side was holding onto the opposite pole I was, was holding his breath 5 feet underwater adn hanging on for dear life. It seemed like were sideways like that for 4 or 5 minutes, probably ony 45 seconds as we slowly popped back upright. He immmediatley went down to check on the engines and we did not see him again until we were tied up.
I got no problems with what the boys do now and am proud of what I did then, more so than working for this liberal rag we call a newspaper now. Sorry I digress, Coast Guard as tough guys? Sometimes.
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Jaeger
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Yea, that doesn’t happen in the Navy. At sea, part of the uniform of the day is a spare can of spinach. If we start to heel like that a bosun just squeezes open his can (while the spinach executes an arcing parabola into his mouth) and kicks his legs fast creating a bow thruster, wherever it’s needed, to right the ship.
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Ozark
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Yeah, Jaeger, you're dating yourself.
Our 12 y.o. granddaughter is in that skinny stage, all legs, arms, and elbows - and I called her "Olive Oyl".
She had no idea who I was talking about.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEK45-_5y0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoOQ7EFspMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhpRjuY7BuA
I like the WWII Popeye. I guess it's all racists as all hell, but we were at war (when we used to know how to dehumanize and kill our enemies). I like it when he calls them Jap-ansies.
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