Happy 225th birthday, Coast Guard
Folks are reminding us that the Coast Guard was founded 225 years ago today on August 4th, 1790 when it was the United States Revenue Cutter Service to enforce tariff and trade laws, prevent smuggling, and protect the collection of federal revenue. The service became the Coast Guard on January 28, 1915 and then in 1939, the United States Lighthouse Service was folded in to the branch. It moved from the Transportation Department to Homeland Security in 2003.
If you’re in New London, Connecticut today;
MEDIA ALERT: New London Celebrates U.S. Coast Guard’s 225th Birthday
WHEN: TODAY Tuesday August 4, 1:30 pm
WHERE: City Pier, New London CT (behind the train station on the river side of railroad tracks)
WHO: Local, state and military dignitaries
WHAT: Join the U.S. Navy, the State of Connecticut and the City of New London in celebrating the United States Coast Guard’s 225th Anniversary. The ceremony will include a colorful tribute to the Coast Guard on the Thames River, a 13 gun salute from the Navy, and a huge birthday cake courtesy of Foxwoods
Category: Coast Guard
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUDDLE PIRATES!!!
Have some CAKE you Badass MOFOs!!!
Jumping out in the raging ocean and shit!!
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CAKE!!!!
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ChipNASA – Those are some of the best birthday wishes evah!
I live on Long Island, worked an RMP for a lot of years near the water (LI Sound) and know just how badass the Coasties are. Great people!!!
Happy birthday, Green Water Navy!
Seriously, happy birthday shipmates! You’ve got big balls to go into the seas that you do.
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Happy birthday Coast Guard!
Happy Birthday, Puddle Pirates! Yeah, it’s fun to bag on each others’ Service Branch, but we all risk our lives and limbs as well as fight and die under the same Flag and for the same Country. Seriously speaking, it takes a lot of spine and balls to do what a lot of Coasties do, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, USCG!!
*Wavies* 😀
The US Coast Guard all ready had its birthday this year, back in January. It turned 100. What the Coast Guard claims as its birthday was the establishment of part of its ancestry, arguably the first water-borne enforcement arm of what today is the IRS, the Revenue-Marine, which existed until 1894 when it was renamed the Revenue Cutter Service. It and its predecessor operated as an element of the US Treasury. There was a separate government agency that developed over time, called the United States Life Saving Service. It was established to assist ships in distress and to rescue shipwreck survivors. The two were merged in January 1915 and gave rise to what we know as the US Coast Guard today. The law was signed by Wilson and was called the “Act to Create the Coast Guard.” So, a belated 100th happy birthday (7 months late) to the US Coast Guard.
ARMY Minimum AFQT Score: 31
COAST GUARD Minimum AFQT Score: 45
Yeah, it sounds like I’m taking a swipe at the Coast Guard. I’m not. I’m taking a swipe at the claim of 225 years of existence. By that reasoning, the Department of Homeland Security is at 150-years old. In fact, it’s birthday is this year. I know this because when I look at its component parts, I see that one of them is the Secret Service, which was formed in 1865.
These seafearers are the best in the business, underway and in the air.
Where the Navy will defer to fly and or set to sea, these Sailors do it regularly with no hestitation and much skill.
They all have “big brass balls”, including the female types!
That is all.
My dad was a Coastie in WWII on board the USS Albuquerque, PF-7. He spent most of the war in the Aleutian Island area chasing subs. Dutch Harbor wasn’t much of a liberty port…
The Coasties recognize their founding date as 1790. Period. That date is emblazoned on our official Seal. Our patron saint is Aaron Burr because he killed Alexander Hamilton, first Sec. Treasury, in a pistol duel. We take great pride in the fact that we are a small band of dedicated professionals to which the Navy rallies round in time of War.
You guys have sainted the man who killed your first boss? That’s funny.
Without Hamilton there would have been no Treasury Dept. Without the Treasury Dept. there would have been no need for the Revenue Cutters. Without the Revenue Cutters there would have been no Coast Guard. And without the Coast Guard there would have been no Loran-C isolated duty stations, and we would not be stuck out on this 600 acre, fly infested coral island, 6000 miles from home. On USCG Lor Sta Marcus Island we celebrated Burr’s birthday on Feb 7th.
Happy Birthday (1 day late) USCG…thank you for your service.