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USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ U.S. Coast Guard 213th Birthday Celebration ~ August 4 2003
68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

Posted on 08/03/2003 10:51:44 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

 
 
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NOTE: CLICK ON EACH GRAPHIC ON THIS TABLE TO GO TO A COAST GUARD RELATED SITE
History of U.S. Coast Guard Day - August 4
 
August 4 is celebrated as Coast Guard Day to honor the establishment on that day in 1790 of the Revenue Cutter Service, forebear of today's Coast Guard, by the Treasury Department. On that date, Congress, guided by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, authorized the building of a fleet of ten cutters, whose responsibility would be enforcement of the first tariff laws enacted by Congress under the Constitution.
 
The Coast Guard has been continuously at sea since its inception, although the name Coast Guard didn't come about until 1915 when the Revenue Cutter Service was merged with the Lifesaving Service. The Lighthouse Service joined the Coast Guard in 1939, followed in 1946 by the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection. In 1967, after 177 years in the Treasury Department, the Coast Guard was transferred to the newly formed Department of Transportation. In March of 2003 the Coast Guard became part of the new Department of Homeland Security.
 
Coast Guard Day is primarily an internal activity for active duty Coast Guard personnel, civilian members, reservists, retirees, auxiliarists, and dependents, but it does have a significant share of interest outside the Service. Grand Haven, Michigan, also known as Coast Guard City, USA, annually sponsors the Coast Guard Festival around August 4. Typically it is the largest community celebration of a branch of the Armed Forces in the nation.
 
In addition to celebrating their own day every year, Coast Guard members also participate as equal partners in Armed Forces Day activities.

Brief Timeline of The U.S. Coast Guard

1790: Congress authorized the building of ten boats (cutters) establishing the Revenue Cutter Service.
1861: The cutter "Harriet Lane" fires the first shot of the civil war.
1912: The Titanic sunk after a collision with an iceberg, beginning the ice patrol mission.
1915: The Coast Guard is created by combining the life saving service and revenue cutter service.
1917: The Coast Guard becomes part of the navy for the duration of world war I.
1919: The Coast Guard begins a war against rum runners during prohibition.
1932: The Coast Guard is assigned enforcement responsibility of the whaling convention, which was signed by 21 other nations. The Northern pacific halibut act is passed and is enforced by the Coast Guard, although the Coast Guards mission of marine and natural resources enforcement dates back to 1820's.
1936: The Coast Guard is assigned the duty of icebreaking by executive order.
1939: The Lighthouse Service is incorporated into Coast Guard, bringing along the aids to navigation mission.
1942: The Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection Bureau is transferred to the Coast Guard, beginning the boating safety missions.
1967: The Coast Guard is transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Transportation.
2003: The Coast Guard is transferred from the
Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security.




On any given day, the men and women of the Coast Guard:

  • Conduct 109 search-and-rescue missions.
  • Assist 192 people in distress.
  • Seize 169 pounds of marijuana.
  • Nab 306 pounds of cocaine.

Most important, the Coast Guard saves lives.

"Ten or 12 people today will go home to dinner with their family only because the Coast Guard got them out of trouble," said Adm. James Loy, commandant of the Coast Guard.

Now that's a respectable day's work. All from a service of only 35,000 people, fewer than the New York Police Department. And by the way, the Coast Guard is the only service in which the role of women is unrestricted.

Regular Coast Guard Total 35,000 Coast Guard Reserves Activated since 9/11 2900

The Coast Guard increased its vigilance, readiness, and patrols to protect the country’s 95,000 miles of coastline, including the Great Lakes and inland waterways.

CLICK HERE for the Coast Guard marching song
Semper Paratus (Always Ready)
Words and Music
by Captain Francis Saltus Van Boskerck, USCG


Click Below for the latest Coast Guard
and Coast Guard Auxiliary news.


"The civilian volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard"



In the summer of 1934 a yachtsman named Malcolm Stuart Boylan planted the seed that eventually sprouted as the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Boylan had just been elected commodore of the newly-created Pacific Writers' Yacht Club, which was about to undertake a cruise from its home in Los Angeles to Catalina Island. Boylan asked a Coast Guard acquaintance, LTCDR C.W. Thomas of the cutter Hermes, to inspect the club's boats before their departure.

Another of the Hermes's officers, LT F.C. Pollard, made the trip to Catalina on board Boylan's yacht, and the two men had a long discussion about the relationship between the Coast Guard and the boating community. On August 23, 1934, Boylan sent Pollard a letter outlining a basic concept for a Coast Guard reserve: ...

A Coast Guard Reserve would be an excellent thing to perpetuate its traditions, preserve its entity and, more particularly, to place at the disposal of CG officers, auxiliary flotillas of small craft for the frequent emergencies incident to your...duties. A copy of Boylan's letter made its way to Washington, and to the desk of CDR Russell Waesche, an aide to the Commandant of the Coast Guard. Waesche saw merit in the idea, but it languished for some five years.

In 1936 Waesche was promoted to rear-admiral and appointed Commandant. He was a forceful, energetic man, and the creation of a Coast Guard reserve became one of his favorite projects. With the backing of the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Navy, and several influential Congressmen, RADM Waesche finally was able to gain Congressional approval for the concept.

On February 19, 1941 Congress passed a law restructuring the Coast Guard Reserve. Henceforth the Coast Guard was to operate two reserve forces. The existing civilian reserve organization was renamed the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. A new U.S. Coast Guard Reserve was to function on a military basis as a source of wartime manpower, like the reserves of the other armed services.

The officers running the Coast Guard appreciated the staggering demands that war would put on it, and the value of the new reserve system in helping them meet those demands. By the summer of 1941 the District Commanders were sending Coast Guard headquarters lists of boats owned by Auxiliarists that would make good patrol craft - and requisitioning Lewis machine guns, Thompson submachine guns, rifles, and pistols for them.

On November 1, 1941, President Roosevelt signed an order transferring the Coast Guard from the Treasury Department to the Navy Department. A few weeks later the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the Coast Guard's reserve system was put to the ultimate test. On the night of December 7, amid rumors of Japanese invasion, twenty Coast Guard Auxiliarists from the 13th District took their boats out of Seattle on the service's first wartime patrol cruise. In May, 1942 the Secretary of the Navy authorized uniforms for the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Perhaps the Auxiliary's most important contribution to the war effort came in the form of the Volunteer Port Security Force. An executive order of February, 1942 directed the Secretary of the Navy to take the necessary steps to prevent "sabotage and subversive activities" on the nation's waterfronts. The task of protecting the hundreds of warehouses, piers, and other facilities that kept the American shipping industry in business fell to the Coast Guard, which in turn delegated it to the Reserve and the Auxiliary.

As the war went on and the Coast Guard's resources were stretched thinner, Auxiliarists and TRs were called upon to fill gaps wherever active duty Coast Guardsmen left them. Auxiliarists' boats patrolled the waterfronts and inlets looking for saboteurs, enemy agents, and fires. At least one unit of temporary Reservists, recruited from the Auxiliary, patrolled east coast beaches on horseback. Other Auxiliarists manned lookout and lifesaving stations near their homes, freeing regular Coast Guardsmen for sea duty. When a flood struck St. Louis in the spring of 1943, Coast Guard Auxiliarists and Reservists evacuated seven thousand people and thousands of livestock.

The Auxiliary and the Reserve attracted their share of celebrity members. Actor Humphrey Bogart took his yacht on several patrols out of Los Angeles, and Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, put in his twelve hours per week on patrol duty in Boston Harbor.

During the Vietnam conflict several Coast Guard cutters were taken off their normal stations and sent to Southeast Asia. Auxiliarists put their boats to work on patrol duty.

The years 1992 and 1993 saw the Auxiliary's ingenuity and dedication tested by disasters precipitated by weather and international politics. Auxiliarists evacuated hundreds of people from the path of Hurricane Andrew, and from the scenes of devastating floods in the Midwest. In 1994 a military coup in Haiti released another surge of immigrants heading for Florida. The Coast Guard and the Auxiliary mobilized in the largest search-and-rescue operation since the Second World War.



Hi. Thanks for coming to see me. Who am I?
I'm Coastie. I travel all over the country meeting boys and girls.
I help the children learn to be safe around the water.


Click on my picture to visit my home page.





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To: stand watie
"another bit of USCG trivia for you:"

Thanks!
141 posted on 08/04/2003 9:40:24 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Always put a life jacket on your tagline when near the water)
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To: stand watie
Good morning, sw. How's the drowned lawn problem coming along?
142 posted on 08/04/2003 9:40:52 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
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To: MeeknMing
That is so funny!
143 posted on 08/04/2003 9:40:52 AM PDT by beachn4fun (I thought tomkow's tag line was empty because he was finally speechless..........)
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To: ThirdMate
Hey ThirdMate.........
144 posted on 08/04/2003 9:42:42 AM PDT by beachn4fun (I thought tomkow's tag line was empty because he was finally speechless..........)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
welcome.
145 posted on 08/04/2003 9:45:23 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kathy in Alaska
IF our yard ever dries out, i'll tell you. we got LOTS more rain last night.

free dixie,sw

146 posted on 08/04/2003 9:46:19 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. -Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Eva

Thanks, Eva, for joining the birthday party for the Coast Guard. Wow! I can imagine how fun that WAS NOT! Please thank your husband for his service to our country.


147 posted on 08/04/2003 9:46:59 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
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To: Eva
"My husband was on one of the 44 footers, like in #10, off the coast of Shinnecock, when the boat turned over twice in high seas and caught fire. The boat righted itself, they put out the fire and made it back to shore, but it was not a fun experience."

I've been on the 47' many times training.
I've been lucky and have only been in some "minor" rough seas.
However I've seen the crew at Coos Bay go out in some really violent seas on rescues.
I often wondered what it would be like "rolling over."
That's not something I'd like to expeience like your husband did.
Please tell him I said
"Thanks for your service to our country."
And Thank YOU for stopping in the Canteen today.
149 posted on 08/04/2003 9:51:22 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Always put a life jacket on your tagline when near the water)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
150?
151 posted on 08/04/2003 9:52:11 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Always put a life jacket on your tagline when near the water)
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To: LindaSOG
BRATT Co-Captain
152 posted on 08/04/2003 9:53:28 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Always put a life jacket on your tagline when near the water)
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To: Wild Thing
Thanks for the Coast Guard Birthday wishes!
153 posted on 08/04/2003 9:55:24 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Always put a life jacket on your tagline when near the water)
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To: Wild Thing
Thanks for the Coast Guard Birthday wishes!
154 posted on 08/04/2003 9:55:24 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Always put a life jacket on your tagline when near the water)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Mr.Tonkin, thank you
for the flowers from the men in the military and the Canteen.

And thank you for the Post Office.

Have a very special day today and thank you for serving in the Coast Guard Aux.

Wild Thing

156 posted on 08/04/2003 9:56:14 AM PDT by Wild Thing (~~ Support our troops and the IDF ! They ROCK ! WRITE them troops often!!~~)
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To: LindaSOG
Great shirt! Good morning, Goddess! Have you dried out yet? Or do you get MORE rain? This is not fair at all; hogging all the rain.


157 posted on 08/04/2003 9:56:17 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (God Bless America and Our Troops Who Protect Her)
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To: beachn4fun; Texagirl4W
That is so funny!

Isn't it, though ?? Whoever did it, did a GREAT job making up that expression on the baby's face !

Thanks for sending that to me, Texagirl4W !!


158 posted on 08/04/2003 9:57:00 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Coming Soon !: Freeper site on Comcast. Found the URL. Gotta fix it now.)
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To: Radix; stand watie; tomkow6; SouthernHawk; Valin; radu; All
Good morning all. I have finally caught up and now I have to take a break and go back to work. Whew! But let me leave a little something under the heading of

Rules for Cats to Live By

BATHROOMS: Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything. Just sit and stare.

DOORS: Do not allow any closed doors in any room. To get door open, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an "outside" door opened, stand halfway in and out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather, rain, snow, or mosquito season.

CHAIRS AND RUGS: If you have to throw up, get to a chair quickly. If you cannot manage in time, get to an Oriental rug. If there is no Oriental rug, shag is good. When throwing up on the carpet, make sure you back up so it is as long as a human's bare foot.

HAMPERING: If one of your humans is engaged in some activity and the other is idle, stay with the busy one. This is called 'helping', otherwise known as hampering'. The following are the rules for 'hampering':

1) When supervising cooking, sit just behind the left heel of the cook. You cannot be seen and thereby stand a better chance of being stepped on and then picked up and comforted.

2) For book readers, get in close under the chin, between eyes and book, unless you can lie across the book itself.

3) For paperwork, lie on the work in the most appropriate manner so as to obscure as much of the work as possible or at least. Pretend to doze, but every so often reach out and slap the pencil or pen.

4) For people paying bills or working on income taxes or Christmas cards,keep in mind the aim: to hamper! First, sit on the paper being worked on. When dislodged, watch sadly from the side of the table. When activity proceeds nicely, roll around on the papers, scattering them to the best of your ability. After being removed for the second time, push pen, pencils, and erasers off the table, one at a time.

5) When a human is holding the newspaper in front of him/her, be sure to jump on the back of the paper. Humans love to jump.

6) When human is working at computer, jump up on desk, walk across keyboard, bat at mouse pointer on screen and then lay in human's lap across arms, hampering the typing in progress.

WALKING: As often as possible, dart quickly and as close as possible in front of the human, especially on stairs, when they have something in their arms, in the dark, and when they first get up in the morning. This will help their coordination skills.

BEDTIME: Always sleep on the human at night so he/she cannot move around.

LITTER BOX: When using the litter box, be sure to kick as much litter out of the box as possible. Humans love the feel of kitty litter between their toes.

HIDING: Every now and then, hide in a place where the humans cannot find you. Do not come out for three to four hours under any circumstances. This will cause the humans to panic (which they love) thinking that you have run away or are lost. Once you do come out, the humans will cover you with love and kisses and you will probably get a treat.

ONE LAST THOUGHT: Whenever possible, get close to a human, especially their face, turn around, and present your butt to them. Humans love this, so do it often. And don't forget guests!

160 posted on 08/04/2003 10:00:49 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Cat lovers know that this is like the Bill of Rights for catz........)
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