FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: The United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut ~ 01 SEPT 2020

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Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut

The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is the service academy of the United States Coast Guard in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1876, it is the smallest of the five U.S. service academies and provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of nine major fields of study. Unlike the other service academies, the Coast Guard Academy does not require a congressional nomination for admission.

Students are officers-in-training and are referred to as cadets, and upon graduation receive a Bachelor of Science degree and are commissioned as Coast Guard ensigns with a five-year active-duty service obligation, with additional years if the graduate attends flight school or subsequent government-funded graduate school.

Out of approximately 250 cadets entering the academy each summer, around 200 graduate. Cadets can choose from among nine majors, with a curriculum that is graded according their performance in a program of academics, physical fitness, character, and leadership.

Each cadet takes two semesters of classes during the school year and then spends the majority of the summer in military training to produce officers of character with the requisite professional skills. Among these are courses in leadership, ethics, organizational behavior, and nautical science.

The majority of cadets report to their first units after graduating, which are either afloat units, shore units, or basic flight training as student naval aviators, with the training conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Navy. Those that are assigned afloat serve as either deck watch officers or student engineers.

Academics at the USCGA stress the sciences and engineering, but different courses of study are available. In addition, several of the majors offer tracks of specialization, for example, Marine and Environmental Science majors can choose to focus on biology, chemistry, or geophysics. Cadets sometimes opt to take elective courses with Connecticut College, adjacent the academy's campus, as part of an open exchange agreement.

Learn More About the United States Coast Guard Academy HERE!!

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[Biggirl]

Hi!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[lightman]

Stand strong and stay safe!

[The Mayor]

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September 1

Suffering Together

Bible in a Year:

• Psalms 135–136
• 1 Corinthians 12

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.

1 Corinthians 12:26

In 2013, seventy-year-old James McConnell, a British Royal Marine veteran, died. McConnell had no family, and staff from his nursing home feared no one would attend his funeral. A man tapped to officiate McConnell’s memorial service posted a Facebook message: “In this day and age it is tragic enough that anyone has to leave this world with no one to mourn their passing, but this man was family. . . . If you can make it to the graveside . . . to pay your respects to a former brother in arms, then please try to be there.” Two hundred Royal Marines packed the pews!

These British compatriots exhibited a biblical truth: we’re tied to one another. “The body is not made up of one part, but of many,” Paul says (1 Corinthians 12:14). We’re not isolated. Just the opposite: we’re bound in Jesus. Scripture reveals organic interconnection: “If one member suffers, all the members suffer” (v. 26 nasb). As believers in Jesus, members of God’s new family, we move toward one another into the pain, into the sorrow, into those murky places where we would fear to go alone. But thankfully we do not go alone.

Perhaps the worst part of suffering is when we feel we’re drowning in the dark all by ourselves. God, however, creates a new community that suffers together. A new community where no one should be left in the dark.

By:  Winn Collier Reflect & Pray

When have you felt most alone? How does God’s grace, kindness, and friendship help you deal with loneliness?

Is it true, God? Have You really placed me in a new community that knows and loves me in my suffering? Help me to believe this. 

To learn more about suffering, visit ChristianUniversity.org/CA211.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Biggirl!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there left that other site!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy lightman!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thank you Mayor!

[weps4ret]

I am a retired CWO4 Coastie! Semper Partas!

Gunner

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: The United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hiya, Biggirl...hope you had a nice Monday.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

The Coast Guard Academy is across the river from the Submarine Base which was last week’s Road Trip. ;-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...a good Blue day?

Raining and drizzling all day here.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for the good words. I had a bit of a crazy Monday.

[mylife]

RIP Tonk and hat tip to my Coastie buddys.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lightman...did you get any remnants from Laura? Wind? Rain? She seemed to be all over the place.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Hope you had a productive Monday.