History
The Coast Guard is currently part of THIS department.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
Saving lives and protecting property is THIS.
What is Maritime Security?
What is SAR? (pronounced "sar")
Managing the sustainable and effective use of the country's inland, coastal and ocean waters and its resources for the future is THIS.
What is Maritime Stewardship?
Establishing and maintaining a secure maritime system is THIS.
What is Maritime Security?
The U.S. Lighthouse Service maintains these ATONs.
What are lighthouses?
In 1979 THIS Coast Guard station was commissioned between Cannery Row and Old Fisherman's Wharf, across the street from the Presidio of Monterey.
What is Coast Guard Station Monterey?
The acronym "SAR" stands for THIS.
What is Search and Rescue?
The kind of ship used to create an open channel through ice is called THIS.
What is an icebreaker?
Intercepting illegal drugs being smuggled by air, sea, or land is called THIS.
What is drug interdiction?
There is even a Coast Guard station HERE -- a favorite vacation location between California and Nevada. It's called the "dream billet".
What is Lake Tahoe?
The Steamboat Inspection Service was added to the Coast Guard in 1946. It was mainly active on THIS river.
What is the Mississippi?
To hail the Coast Guard, use THIS kind of radio. It operates on a very high frequency.
What is a VHF radio?
What is "Mayday, mayday, mayday"?
Cleaning up oil spills is an example of THIS.
What is environmental protection.
Intercepting illegal immigrants by land, air or sea is called THIS.
What is migrant interdiction?
The Coast Guard maintains 4 A-frames HERE. Military members can rent them for cheap, but you have to get on the waiting list.
What is Lake Tahoe?
In 1915, the Revenue Cutter Service merged with the U.S. Lifesaving Service to create THIS new organization.
What is the Coast Guard?
To indicate that your vessel is in distress, say THIS message over your VHF radio.
What is channel 16?
The acronym "ATONs" stands for THIS.
What are "Aids to Navigation"?
A .30 calibre M240B machine gun can be mounted on the bow of THIS Coast Guard boat. (We will board one of these boats in the Monterey harbor.)
What is a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat (MLB)?
The official name for a life jacket is THIS.
What is a PDF -- a personal flotation device?
He founded the Revenue Cutter Service over two centuries ago. There is a musical named after him, and his picture is on the $20 dollar bill.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
If you need to hail the Coast Guard, use THIS channel on your VHF radio.
What is channel 16?
The fish and marine creatures caught accidentally during commercial fishing are called THIS. (For example, if you were fishing for tuna, but caught porpoises, the porpoises would be considered THIS.)
What is "by-catch"?
Unlike the military, the United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by THIS act, because -- even though the Coast Guard is an armed service -- it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission. Therefore, it can acts as law enforcement.
What is the Posse Comitatus Act?
The person in charge of a Coast Guard boat, particularly steering it, is called THIS.
What is a coxswain (pronounced "кáксин")?