U.S. Coast Guard, When Im Gone
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I'm an Army Junior ROTC cadet, planning to enlist in the Marine Corp out of high school. My father was in the Coast Guard rank of Petty Officer 2nd class, he was to save lives, fight criminals, stop drug traffickers, ect. He ended up with PTSD as at one time he failed to save a life. He never got over the fact that because of his mistake someone never got to see their family again. I respect the coast guard as a full service branch unlike most people.
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Well Done! Set the Special Sea Detail.
SP
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thats my job its the best but the boot camp is hard i gerante to stay fit
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All coast gaurds reading this rock on
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@arnie228 how old do you have to be to be a rescue swimmer?
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go uscg
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To all men and women in the coast guard, you are all awesome and i hope to eventually be a pilot in the coastguard.
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when i was 10, i lived next door to the coast guards base. i would watch them and evenually made friends with some of them, they were nothing short of totaly and complete gentelman in every sence of the word.
i loved you guys then and i love you now that your gone.
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@XGCScrappy Yes I'm aware that the CG was in Viet Nam. Glad I wasn't! I joined the Navy Reserve so not to be drafted and be sent somewhere safe and it worked.
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@20031200 If you don't understand history, I'll give you a very brief lesson. Yes the USCG was in vietnam, they trained a lot of navy petty officers and ensigns in shallow water operations. The USN SEALs are very grateful for their knowledge.



I was in the Coast Guard. Not many people know what this branch is about or what we do. We place or lives on the line so others may go home. God bless our brothers and sisters.
arnie228 2 years ago 30
Nicely done. Tragic that the Coast Guard was not represented at the concert alongside other services, but that's been typical since I served back in the 80s and even before. Unlike other services the Coast Guard doesn't delineate between wartime and peacetime; they are "at war" 365 days of the year with dopers, criminals, and (when lives are threatened) nature itself. Other services prepare for something they hope will never happen, the Coast Guard prepares for what they know WILL happen.
sparqi 1 year ago 16