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Offline oldcoastie6468

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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2013, 08:29:38 AM »
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Quote from: oldcoastie6468 on September 29, 2013, 11:43:40 PM
Hmmm......Doesn't work for me, either. But I did post the whole thing except for the photo and the video. I'm still learning here.

I think the link wouldn't work because it was a link you followed from your email, which appends that directive to the url. It was a specific link from your email to the URL.

 I copied just the relevant part of the url in your post, followed it to make sure it worked, and then corrected your link once I verified it.

To avoid this in the future, if you follow a link from an email, erase the email appendage from the url after you paste it.

I didn't post it from my email. I posted the link from its web page. I dunno. But thanks!
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« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2013, 08:22:14 PM »
Hello old - you aren't alone here anymore........with two of us we probably have them surrounded  ::thumbsup::
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« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2013, 08:32:11 PM »
Quote from: rustybayonet on October 22, 2013, 08:22:14 PM
Hello old - you aren't alone here anymore........with two of us we probably have them surrounded  ::thumbsup::

You old gasbag! Drop into the introduction thread and do it!

Hey, everyone! The 2nd Coastguardsman has entered!  ::whoohoo::
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2013, 09:28:26 PM »
O noes!  We be overrun.   ::falldownshocked::
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2013, 11:26:46 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on October 22, 2013, 09:28:26 PM
O noes!  We be overrun.   ::falldownshocked::

Fret not! We're the good guys!
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2013, 07:06:26 AM »
Quote from: oldcoastie6468 on October 22, 2013, 11:26:46 PM
Quote from: Pandora on October 22, 2013, 09:28:26 PM
O noes!  We be overrun.   ::falldownshocked::

Fret not! We're the good guys!

Thank God!   ;D

Oh, and Pan, the proper term to use would be "swamped"!   ;D
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2013, 08:59:51 AM »
Quote from: Libertas on October 23, 2013, 07:06:26 AM
Quote from: oldcoastie6468 on October 22, 2013, 11:26:46 PM
Quote from: Pandora on October 22, 2013, 09:28:26 PM
O noes!  We be overrun.   ::falldownshocked::

Fret not! We're the good guys!

Thank God!   ;D

Oh, and Pan, the proper term to use would be "swamped"!   ;D

We're not from da UP, but we can put on our swampers!  ::hysterical::
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2013, 09:24:52 AM »
Quote from: Libertas on October 23, 2013, 07:06:26 AM
Quote from: oldcoastie6468 on October 22, 2013, 11:26:46 PM
Quote from: Pandora on October 22, 2013, 09:28:26 PM
O noes!  We be overrun.   ::falldownshocked::

Fret not! We're the good guys!

Thank God!   ;D

Oh, and Pan, the proper term to use would be "swamped"!   ;D

I stand corrected.   ::USA::
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2013, 11:41:47 AM »
"Up to our gills" would work too.   ;D
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« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2013, 03:16:03 PM »
OK, all of you get it outta your systems!  ::laserkill::

Shallow water sailors. No one under 6' tall. Puddle Pirates.  ::)

It'll be nothing that Rusty and I haven't heard before!  ;)
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2013, 09:47:08 PM »
Quote from: oldcoastie6468 on October 23, 2013, 03:16:03 PM
OK, all of you get it outta your systems!  ::laserkill::

Shallow water sailors. No one under 6' tall. Puddle Pirates.  ::)

It'll be nothing that Rusty and I haven't heard before!  ;)

And I'm sure you Old Salties can take it.

After all, I'm sure between Tania and I we've heard every damn short joke in the world.
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #31 on: October 24, 2013, 07:10:05 AM »
Puddle Pirates!   ::hysterical::

Yeah, well...being an airdale on flattops I didn't care for what the bubbleheads (of whom one was a friend of mine I helped enlist...his insistance, I warned him!) called us - targets!

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« Reply #32 on: October 24, 2013, 07:17:49 AM »
It doesn't take very long when you're in the CG to hear all of the disparaging remarks - some of them joking, but many not. You have to learn to let it just roll off your back. I sometimes responded that if I saw them in the water after their boat sank I'd toss them our very best Coast Guard Approved concrete life preserver.

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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #33 on: October 24, 2013, 07:50:43 AM »
Y'all had to work around civilians more than us blue water boys...probably ran into all sorts, we only had ourselves to pick on...more than just squid vs jarhead...we had issues a plenty with our own...too much time at sea can make a guy punchy!  It is what it is.
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« Reply #34 on: October 24, 2013, 08:33:10 AM »
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   ::thinking::  The only thing old' 6468 - you forgot ------ 'Anchor Clanker'.

Bottom line is ALL of our military has a job and each is proud of their service, but out of the others, the Coast Guard is the only one training and executing every day to save lives.   ::beertoast::

The official motto of the CG is - "Always Ready", but anyone in or previous vets know the 'unofficial is "You have to go out - but you don't have to come back".

End of Commercial   ::exitstageleft::
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #35 on: October 24, 2013, 09:26:38 AM »
Saw a bumper sticker for the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Never seen that before and looked it up. Looks like it's the CG reserves.

By the way, where does the CG train?
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #36 on: October 24, 2013, 03:07:22 PM »
Quote from: LadyVirginia on October 24, 2013, 09:26:38 AM
Saw a bumper sticker for the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Never seen that before and looked it up. Looks like it's the CG reserves.

By the way, where does the CG train?

Coast Guard Auxiliary members are civilians who assist CG units using their own vessels in boarding, patrolling, etc. They are not members of the Coast Guard.

Coast Guard Receiving Center (Boot Camp) is at Cape May, NJ. Coast Guard schools are in several areas, depending on the speciality for which members are training. Some schools are shared with and by the other services.

Lifeboat training is off the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon; huge breakers, bad seas, and a great place to roll the 44 footers 360o.
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« Reply #37 on: October 24, 2013, 03:17:07 PM »
Quote from: rustybayonet on October 24, 2013, 08:33:10 AM
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   ::thinking::  The only thing old' 6468 - you forgot ------ 'Anchor Clanker'.

Bottom line is ALL of our military has a job and each is proud of their service, but out of the others, the Coast Guard is the only one training and executing every day to save lives.   ::beertoast::

The official motto of the CG is - "Always Ready", but anyone in or previous vets know the 'unofficial is "You have to go out - but you don't have to come back".

End of Commercial   ::exitstageleft::

Navy people are also referred to as Anchor Clankers.

"You have to go out - but you don't have to come back" was the motto when you and I were in the Coast Guard. Today's pussified Coast Guard can't use that term any more.

I remember a BM1 with whom I served in Charlevoix. The station got an SOS call, the weather was bad, the seas were 6' to 8', and one of the crewmembers - a fresh SA out of boot camp - refused to get on the CG 44 footer (a CG boat that would not sink and would roll 360o and come up running). The BM1 said, "Get your dammmed ass aboard this boat! Your life, our lives, and this whole dammmned boat aren't worth even one of the lives of the people we're going out to save!" They went out, came back with everyone who was on the boat that sank, and the SA had a whole new education of why he enlisted The Coast Guard.
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Re: U.S. Coast Guard
« Reply #38 on: October 24, 2013, 05:21:21 PM »
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The BM1 said, "Get your dammmed ass aboard this boat! Your life, our lives, and this whole dammmned boat aren't worth even one of the lives of the people we're going out to save!"

Fancy that!  Just like the cops today, eh?
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« Reply #39 on: October 24, 2013, 10:29:31 PM »
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Fancy that!  Just like the cops today, eh?

That was in the "Old Guard," which was really different from the "Old Guard" the senior petty officers referred to when Rusty and I were in the CG.

It's hell to see what today's Coast Guard has become.  ::oldman::
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