[Snow Bunny]

United States Coast Guard Core Values Honor Integrity is our standard.
We demonstrate uncompromising ethical conduct and moral behavior in all of our personal actions. We are loyal and accountable to the public trust.

Respect
We value our diverse work force. We treat each other with fairness, dignity, and compassion. We encourage individual opportunity and growth. We encourage creativity through empowerment. We work as a team.

Devotion to Duty
We are professionals, military and civilian, who seek responsibility, accept accountability, and are committed to the successful achievement of our organizational goals.

We exist to serve.
We serve with pride.

These core values are more than just Coast Guard rules of behavior. They are deeply rooted in the heritage that has made our organization great. They demonstrate who we are and guide our performance, conduct, and decisions every minute of every day. Because we each represent the Coast Guard to the public, we must all embrace these values in our professional undertakings as well as in our personal lives.

[Snow Bunny]

The purpose of the Auxiliary is to assist the Coast Guard as authorized by the Commandant in performing any Coast Guard function, power, duty, role, mission, or operation authorized by law."

In addition, legislation expanded the Commandant's authority to use the Auxiliary to assist other federal agencies, state authorities, and local governments in areas other than recreational boating safety .

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary was established by Congress in 1939 to assist the Coast Guard in promoting boating safety. It boasts nearly 33,000 members from all walks of life who receive special training so that they may be a functional part of Team Coast Guard.

Auxiliarists assist the Coast Guard in non-law enforcement programs such as public education, vessel safety checks, safety patrols, search and rescue, marine environmental protection and Coast Guard Academy introduction programs for youth. Auxiliarists volunteer more than 2 million hours annually to benefit other boaters and their families.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Bunny.

[Snow Bunny]

I LOVE this, I think it is the cutest thing , this Coastie!

[Bogie]

You are sooo right about the Coast Guard!

When a simple fishing trip goes bad:

Your engine dies, the winds start sending you across the Atlantic toward England, the waves start to come over the side, that sea-sick feeling in your stomach is compounded by the fact that you will never see your 2 year old girl again, and you the know that your only hope is the Coast Guard.

[MeekOneGOP]

Wow! Thanks, Snow Bunny!

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Now, my latest rant that I appear to be in the minority
on, judging from the lack of response......................
:O)
***FReepers: Urge President Bush to
VETO Shays-Meehan CFR Bill! !***
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/651878/posts

[Lokibob]

The sad state of our military. I sat, as did millions of other Americans, and watched as our government underwent a peaceful transition of power.
At first I felt a swell of pride and patriotism as I watched George W. Bush take his oath of office.

However, all that pride vanished as I watched William Jefferson Clinton board Air Force One for the final time.

I saw 21 U.S. Marines in full dress, with rifles, fire a 21-gun salute to the outgoing president.

It was then that I realized how far America's military had deteriorated.

 

Every last one of them missed.

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[Howlin]

Bump!

[Nitro]

You gotta love those "Puddle Pirates!!"

[deadhead]

Thank You to All who are now or have been in the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxillary. God Bless

"A cold January day at the Fire Island Coast Guard Station boat basin on the north (bay) side of Fire Island New York USA. In the foreground is the stations's 44-foot motor lifeboat. In the background is the Robert Moses bridge, which forms the southern end of the causeway connnecting the barrier island to the mainland of Long Island."

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good afternoon, all!

These core values are more than just Coast Guard rules of behavior. They are deeply rooted in the heritage that has made our organization great. They demonstrate who we are and guide our performance, conduct, and decisions every minute of every day. Because we each represent the Coast Guard to the public, we must all embrace these values in our professional undertakings as well as in our personal lives.

Bump!

[Johnny_Apollo]

A Poem For WW2 Soldiers