Posted on 11/29/2020 3:18:36 PM PST by ransomnote
What test? How I got ‘only’ 99 out of 100 questions right I’ll never know. Armed forces admission test.
Aren’t you also required to pass a tough physical in order to qualify for the Coast Guard? I think being able to swim several miles is a pre-requisite.
Now try cheating on that!
“As it was in the days of Noah...”
It is so sad to see our society crumbling, for lack of ethics, truth, justice, and morality. Of course, Bible believers know this kind of world was foretold, but here, at least in America, and much of the Western world, for a while, we had Godliness, and a code of ethics, truth, justice, and morality, in the most of us. Thank You, LORD, for the remnant; have mercy on us all.
AMEN!
The Federal Government thinks cheating by people who are not associated with elections is wrong?
Mercant Marine exam not CG Boot Camp
The Coast Guard employees enabled the cheating and took the money. The cheaters were Merchant Marine people. So they did not have to pass a physical exam.
Obviously did not go to CG Boot
No, but I spent 14.5 years in CG Reserve as a communicator.
If I recall reservists went to boot camp how did you skip that process and what is a communicator
FYI PING.
I used the term “communicator” in the generic sense.
As a 20 year old, I was about to be drafted with a Vietnam destination, so I joined the Air National Guard. I served 6 years as a Comm Center Specialist. Was out of the military for almost 5 years, then I investigated joining the CG reserve. All military at that time, and at all times uses the same communications system. The only skill unique to the Coast Guard radioman rating at the time was Morse code. Since I had 20 wpm skills via amateur radio, they were able to enlist me into that rate.
My function on weekends was search and rescue watch stander, and as a reservist I would come in and take the watch for the regular CG person. I was very fortunate that rather than sit around or train constantly, I had a weekend job, 12 hours on Saturday, and 8 hours on Sunday. I even slept Saturday night at the base so that I could get more rest.
My job was to stay alert monitoring the hf and vhf emergency channels, send and receive message traffic between units, and to communicate with vessels in distress, helicopters, small boats, and help coordinate rescues in that manner.
Was an interesting job, but stressful, so when I got my time in, I ended my career. I am grateful for the experience, and that I got to meet some wonderful people!
I never went to CG boot camp, never had a swim test and served for 14.5 years as a reservist. Got my basic military training from the Air Force.
I knew a few RM’s,Rm 3 RM2 (no longer a rate) none ever referred to themselves as “communicators” 1st I ever ever heard of the rate referred to as you have.
So as a communicator after 14.5 what rank did you leave as ?
I sat behind a few right seat and left seaters in the radio seat back in the 70’s nothing in CGD# 7 got relayed.
I suppose your initial post, to me, was a dig at the CG which peaked my interest.
Rescue swimmers are cream of the crop, no one can compare.
I entered the Coast Guard Reserve as an RM2, Radioman 2nd Class (E5), and
retired 14.5 years later as a TCC Telecommunications Chief (E7). Today, I believe the rating has changed again and I think they may have consolidated the communications responsibilities with the ODO responsibilities (plotting currents, resource allocation, District real time communications, etc.).
During my CG search and rescue career, we always were reminded that the Navy resources were always available, even though we didn’t have any info on where they were. We would joke about the Navy having too rough a demeanor for rescue operations, being constantly trained in how to “break things”, and not trained in search and rescue. So it was a friendly dig at the Navy, not the CG.
Congratulations, Chief.......You have done well,I am envious
Thank you. I am very grateful for the good fortune of being able to find a slot, and living 40 miles from the base. Also, very grateful for have met some of the most wonderful people imaginable! Not every one of them, but the overwhelming majority were wonderful Americans!
Dittos........My best and truest friends go back to CG days,.Still keep in touch with the guy who had the “rack” below me in boot camp and a few old timers from CGASMIA
You don’t have to swim “several miles” to join the Navy. Their basic swim test is similar to the Boy Scouts’, like 200 yards.
My daughter, who was in the Coast Guard nine years, had to go to remedial swimming during basic. She managed, and later trained as a rescue swimmer, although - at 5’1” and 100 lbs. - she wasn’t going to rescue anyone but a child or a dog.
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