The U.S. Coast Guard experienced its best year for recruitment in more than three decades, the service announced Friday.
“The Coast Guard far exceeded our recruiting goals in Fiscal Year 2025, showing that more Americans want to serve in the Coast Guard than ever before,” said Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the Coast Guard, in a statement. “Thanks to our recruiters for their great success. We aren’t just growing — we are bringing in the best talent from across the United States and building the workforce of the future.”
Every coworker I've had with USCG history has been an excellent tech and employee.
ReplyDeleteI tried to join the CG back in 2000! The recruiter was a Loser! Went next door to the Navy! Spent 8 years and made Chief and Craft Master of a 130ft landing craft! From Norway to Africa and the Caribbean and all in between! When it was time to sign up again......They wanted me to be a recruiter! Screw that! When to the CG! They took me immediately! Best move I ever made! Severed for 18 years and loved it! It wasn't easy at times and like anywhere you have to deal with idiots! But, If I could, I would do it all over again! Im almost 70 now, and I stilll proud to have served in both The USN and more so the USCG!
ReplyDeleteCool story! Good on you, thats a serious life achievement, to be well proud of.
DeleteI made a mistake! It was 1980 when I went to the Navy! Old Man here not getting it right the first time :)
ReplyDeleteWorked on a couple projects for the CG, at the Boston Harbor base. Really great bunch of people, they are dead nuts serious, I'm talking cohesive incredibly well trained and experience, where it counts, and kind of laid back like lions chilling out in certain circumstances. They have a kind of attitude thats most admirable, it is like this big close nit family, that are afraid of nothing and nothing can stop them, up to every challenge.
ReplyDeleteAll our services train daily for "worst case-what if". Coast Guard responds everyday to one threat, emergency or the other.
ReplyDelete...a tip of the hat from Great Guns
Good people in the CG, we stayed busy. It's good to see the woke folk gone and people willing to serve again. Lot's of hours & satisfying work.
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing a lot of CG shorts on FB & UTube, watching the ads it's not the same CG as it was during my 20 years! But then again it's not the same world that is was when I got out in '97.
The Coast Guard is one of eight uniformed services that satisfy (or used to) one’s military service obligation. Besides it and the Army, Navy, Marines, Air force, and Space Force, there are the Public Health Service (uniform branch) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. That’s why the US PHS is headed by an admiral.
ReplyDeleteDuring ‘Nam, the service with the highest percentage of its personnel in country was the US PHS. My grad school officemate was a Captain in the PHS, but he served in Ft. Huachuca.
My best friend was a Marine that joined the PHS afterwards. He was at New Orleans for Katrina and in Africa for Ebola. In West Africa he was kicked out of the country by a female bureaucrat with WHO, who didn't like his attitude!
DeleteHis attitude was what I liked best about him!
I miss him a lot.
Can't blame the enlistees. It's time to stop fighting for oil - er, democracy overseas and start protecting the homeland instead.
ReplyDeleteIf all our recent wars were for oil, where is it? Where do we keep it? Where are our profits?
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We the people never get the war spoils. They go to corporations and the well connected. It is estimated that Halliburton made over $39 billion from the Iraq war. You should check the documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers.
DeleteI wonder who will make money from the upcoming Venezuelan invasion because it sure as hell wont be me.
Where did they find all those recruits that are 6 ' tall. if ya don't get this too bad.
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