Coast Guard
Retired coastie and wife, identity thieves, and KGB officers?
ninja sends in this wild story. It should make a great movie some day. What you see is retired Coast Guardsman Walter Primrose and his wife Gwynn Morrison. The two stand accused of stealing the identities of two dead infants and living under the names (with Primrose’s entire military career under the false name). Primrose […]
Trump military/MOH news
A group of four-stars sent an op-ed letter to the New York Times Friday excoriating Trump for ‘dereliction of duty’ on January 6. Brief checking shows that some of the same names have showed up in the past, such as on the letter in which 200+ senior officers endorsed Biden over Trump in the 2020 […]
Kamala at the Coast Guard Commencement
Vice President Kamala Harris I feel bad for the Coasties but it’s their turn. David sends. Presidents and vice presidents deliver the keynote addresses at the five different military service academies on a rotating basis. Last year, Harris made history as the first woman to speak at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland. […]
SS Pendleton Rescue
We all rag on the Coasties, which makes them nothing special. All the sister services treat each other badly, even to differing communities within each branch. But when fun time is over we all recognize heroism when we see it. Today marks the anniversary of what may be the greatest rescue in Coast Guard history. […]
Coast Guard Vaccine Woes
CG Helo Rescue Swimmer hangs from rescue basket The U.S. Coast Guard is under fire for allegedly issuing heavy handed guidance on how to acess service members’ requests for a religious exemption from the COVID vax mandate – prompting criticism that it’s conducting a “modern-day inquisition.” Fox News reports the U.S. Coast Guard is requesting […]
Biden insults the troops. Again.
President Biden gave a commencement speech yesterday to the Coast Guard’s newest officers at their Academy graduation. With echoes of his speech to deployed troops when he was Vice President, when he called them “stupid bastards” and “dull”, he again insults the troops as “dull” when they didn’t laugh at his incoherent rambling “jokes(?)”. He […]
Coast Guard’s Greatest Recsue
SS Pendleton Nearly seventy years ago SS Pendleton, a T2-SE-A1 class oil tanker came to grief bound for Boston, Massachusetts. She encountered a powerful Nor’easter storm generating waves up to 70 feet in height, and basically broke in half. Most of the crew was able to evacuate to the stern section, which amazingly still had […]
Valor Friday
When researching past heroes, it’s common to see a phrase like “most decorated soldier” of a particular war, but what exactly does that mean? It’s largely open to some interpretation. Both the Army and the Air Force have point based systems in place for awards and decorations when it comes time to promote to certain […]
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