Laying to rest a Coast Guard veteran
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse, 7th Coast Guard District public affairs. The Greatest Generation came of age during a world at war and created a lasting legacy that has shaped us all and the communities we live in. One of the members of this generation was Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Frank [...]
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The manners of our profession: remembering lives that ended tragically and too soon
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Yesterday marked 32 years since the sinking of Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn. Twenty-three of the Blackthorn’s 50 crewmembers lost their lives during the Coast Guard’s worst peacetime disaster, and a memorial inscribed with the names of the crewmembers that perished now stands two miles north of the accident site. Vice Adm. Robert C. Parker, Atlantic [...]
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The right to serve & defend your country
Friday, January 27, 2012
Mentorship often involves the sharing of personal experiences and stories passed down among generations with the sole purpose of bettering the life of others. Over the past week, the story of the Tuskegee Airmen has likely become the focal point for many a mentoring discussion before and after screenings of the film Red Tails. During [...]
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WWI sailor awarded Purple Heart 96 years later
Monday, January 23, 2012
Written by Chief Petty Officer Jeff Hall, 1st Coast Guard District public affairs. On a grey winter’s day along the coast of New Hampshire, recognition for sacrifice came to a local man nearly 100 years after he perished aboard Coast Guard Cutter Tampa during World War I. Fred Wesley Wyman was posthumously awarded the Purple [...]
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Tensions leading to the War of 1812
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Two hundred years ago, the United States, independent for less than 30 years, went to war with Great Britain to preserve its economy, its way of life and its independence. Beginning in 2012 and continuing through 2015, the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard will commemorate the bicentennial of the War of [...]
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Honoring our profession: The long blue line
Friday, January 6, 2012
Do you know the traditions of those who have gone before you? So was the question posed to cadets at the United States Coast Guard Academy by the Coast Guard Commandant himself, Adm. Bob Papp. In a speech to the Corps of Cadets, Papp shared insight on the Coast Guard’s rich history and how each [...]
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Ringing in 2012 with rhyme: Ashore
Sunday, January 1, 2012
The act of writing a ship’s log… there’s nothing special about it. Deck logs are the permanent record of day-to-day life aboard a vessel. They must include who is in command, what the status of the ship is and various other aspects of the ship’s operations. Written in all-caps, the logs are ordinary every day [...]
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‘Twas the night before Christmas
Saturday, December 24, 2011
The well-known poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas tells the story of a man as he witnesses St. Nicholas, arriving in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer, visiting his home on Christmas Eve. One Coast Guardsman, decades ago, decided to tell his own tale of the night before Christmas. But in true maritime tradition, this [...]
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Adm. Papp remembers 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp provided keynote remarks at a Pearl Harbor remembrance aboard the decommissioned Coast Guard Cutter Taney in Baltimore today. This year is both the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack and 25th anniversary of Taney’s decommissioning. Taney is the last surviving vessel afloat to have been present during the [...]
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History: Coast Guard Cutter Taney
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Written by the Coast Guard Historian’s Office. Roger B. Taney was commissioned Oct. 24, 1936. The 327-foot cutter was designed to meet the changing missions of the service as it emerged from the Prohibition era. Taney and crew arrived in their homeport of Honolulu, Jan. 18, 1937. Taney arrived in the Pacific at a time [...]
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