Talk:United States Coast Guard

Lucky Thirteen - D-Days in the Pacific with the U.S. coast Guard in World War II

A description of this book should be noted in the 'Literature' section of this article.

'Lucky Thirteen' is the story of a 17 year old Texas kid who enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1943 and served as a Coxswain of an LCVP in the island hopping war of the Pacific. This is a rare personal history from WWII written by Ken Wiley describing his experiance in the war-time U S Coast Guard.

SetiRich (talk) 01:17, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Article size

Well, this article is certainly pretty thorough, but its quite long, and I'm wondering if it's time to split off sections into separate articles per WP:SUMMARY. There are certainly a few areas that I could see splitting off, such as the uniforms section. The other US armed services have separate uniform articles. I find it particularly odd that there's a separate article for the uniforms of the USCG Auxiliary, but no separate article for the uniforms of the actual, active Coast Guard itself. I'm wondering if the Auxiliary uniform article should be reworked into an article covering Coast Guard uniforms in general. oknazevad (talk) 19:04, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

The U.S. Coast Guard has 5 roles (Not)

I made an edit last week regarding this, it was reverted. Good--turns out I was wrong. I was confounding a couple of the missions with roles. Sad, since I'm in the Coast Guard. Glad I straightened that out before my next EPME/SWE exam. 152.121.17.254 (talk) 10:48, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 15:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Consider registering with Wikipedia and use your talents to help with Coast Guard articles. BTW, good luck on that next Service-wide Exam, I calculate you have about 6 months to study before test time. Old Fart MKC (ret) sends... Cuprum17 (talk) 15:25, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I actually am registered...just not on a CG workstation Pr0carbine (talk) 14:31, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Heavy Ice

We use the term heavy class icebreaker all over the place, but the USCG is much more careful and simply quotes thickness each class can overcome: http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/

So should we drop ice class from all of our articles, or use somebody else's categories? Hcobb (talk) 16:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

We should follow what is in the reliable sources applicable to the instances of usage. It's not a good idea to make blanket approvals of such changes without examining HOW the terms are being used, and HOW they are sources. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 23:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Taking this up over at Talk:List_of_icebreakers#Heavy_ice so we can handle this universally. The CanGuard article has a box quote without attribution so that might lead somewhere. Hcobb (talk) 05:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

New Coast Guard Ethos

The Guardian Ethos has been replaced per Comandant Instruction. It reflects 14 usc more accurately, as noone has the authority to change the name of a Coast Guardsman unless they first ammend 14 USC. The following link is the Coast Guard message implementing the new Ethos as of 01DEC11: http://www.uscg.mil/announcements/ALCOAST/554-11_alcoast.txt THE COAST GUARD ETHOS:

I AM A COAST GUARDSMAN. I SERVE THE PEOPLE

OF THE UNITED STATES. I WILL PROTECT THEM. I WILL DEFEND THEM. I WILL

SAVE THEM. I AM THEIR SHIELD. FOR THEM I AM SEMPER PARATUS. I LIVE

THE COAST GUARD CORE VALUES. I AM PROUD TO BE A COAST GUARDSMAN. WE

ARE THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD. 152.121.17.254 (talk) 02:54, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Added to article, thanks for the heads up and link to message. Semper Paratus. Cuprum17 (talk) 21:26, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

AMVER

Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.70.64.66 (talk) 15:11, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Article exists on Wikipedia as AMVER. Not sure why this was put here.Cuprum17 (talk) 16:40, 9 February 2012 (UTC)