[PDF] A Coast Guardsmans History Of The Us Coast Guard eBook

Author : C D Kroll
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612518761

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More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service’s core values. The author highlights contributions of a variety of individuals, from seamen to admirals on active duty, as well as reservists, auxiliarists, and civilian members of Team Coast Guard. These heroes, representing a great diversity in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, set an example worthy of emulation and serve as role models for today’s Coast Guard men and women.

Author : Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0786488557

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In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and coordinated missions with other armed forces from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and North Polar region. This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explored are defense threats, drug trafficking, and border security, as well as Coast Guard personnel, training, leadership, and assets.

Author : Kevin P. Gilheany
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1574417568

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 As a boy growing up in New York City, Kevin P. Gilheany had two dreams: to join the Coast Guard, and to play the bagpipes. But by the time he finished high school he was overweight, had a drinking problem, and couldn’t swim. Undeterred by the doubts of the folks at home, he decided to enlist in the Coast Guard anyway. With great determination, and some divine intervention, he passed the swim test and graduated from boot camp, thus beginning an eventful and diverse twenty-year career in the 1980s and 1990s Coast Guard. He set a goal for himself to get command of his own patrol boat, and along the way he was involved in capturing drug smugglers, rescuing hundreds of Haitian migrants at sea, recovering Space Shuttle Challenger debris, surviving a “hooligan navy” experience on a Coast Guard workboat, coordinating search and rescue during the famed “Perfect Storm,” and leading armed boardings of ships following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. When he was asked by one of his men, who was dying from brain cancer, to play bagpipes at his retirement ceremony, Kevin started down a new path to have bagpipers officially recognized as part of the Coast Guard. This ultimately led a boy who couldn’t swim to fulfill both of his childhood dreams and leave a lasting legacy by founding the U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band.

Author : T. Michael O'Brien
Publisher : United States : Ninth Coast Guard District
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Great Lakes
ISBN :

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A history of the U.S. Coast Guard's activities on the Great Lakes.

Author : Jim Dolbow
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781682471890

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Regardless of rank or time in service, all Coast Guard personnel find this manual to be essential to their professional development. Its value as a ready source of guidance is attested to by generations of men and women who have made it a part of their personal libraries since 1952, when the first edition was published. Today, it remains the basic training manual for the Coast Guard's newest recruits at boot camp in Cape May, New Jersey. This 11th edition is designed to bring the reader into the second decade of the 21st century. New materials and photographs fully describe the modern Coast Guard and its equipment. Updated information is offered on Coast Guard missions, organization, history, and maritime law enforcement, among other subjects. Continued emphasis is placed on safety of life, protection of national assets, and defending the homeland. The second half of the book is also ideal for members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and civilian recreational boaters. Key chapters include ones on first aid, boating safety, fire-fighting, maintenance, swimming, and lifesaving. This volume is ideal for anyone serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Author : Malcolm F. Willoughby
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612519938

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The intimate view of the U.S. Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. First published in 1957 and out of print for years, the book is now available in paperback. Handsomely illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, the book serves as a unique memento of one of the most illustrious periods in the Coast Guard's two hundred year history. The author offers a story replete with incidents of devotion far beyond the call of duty--daring rescues, adventurous high-sea missions, heroic combat action--to clearly demonstrate the vital role the service played in the Allied war effort. A seasoned World War I veteran who joined the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve in 1942, Malcolm Willoughby has covered every aspect of the Coast Guard's involvement in the war at sea, in the air, and at home. From the invasion of Normandy, where Coast Guardsmen landed thousands of Americans and rescued some 1,500 stranded in the surf, to Guadalcanal, where they rescued three companies of Marines trapped on the beach, this chronicle vividly recounts these well-documented operations and little-known stories of individual triumphs and tragedies as well.

Author : Robert Erwin Johnson
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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Recounts the founding of the U.S. Coast Guard, looks at Coast Guard operations and functions, and looks at how it has changed over the last seventy years.

Author : George E. Krietemeyer
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9781557504685

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Appendixes include a brief history of the Coast Guard, a glossary of nautical terminology, and the Armed Forces Code of Conduct."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Matthew Mitchell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1449044417

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While the Coast Guards many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known, its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed, the Guard didnt just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit cargo into Uncle Sams territorial waters, it sent ground troops to foreign lands to train their forces and, when necessary, directly engage the enemy. But to create the type of force needed was no small task and would not be without tribulation, both from within and outside the organization. The road traveled to complete the mission was laden with obstacles. This is not a story about the Coast Guard you know, or think you know. Rather, this is a story about the other side, the side that history nearly forgot; not the standard, but the antithesis of standard. It is a story that will undoubtedly make even the most seasoned Coast Guardsmen question their understanding of the organization to which they belong. To be sure, This is not your fathers Coast Guard.