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Book Synopsis A Coast Guardsman's History of the U.S. Coast Guard by : C D Kroll
Download or read book A Coast Guardsman's History of the U.S. Coast Guard written by C D Kroll and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Guardians of the Sea by : Robert Erwin Johnson
Download or read book Guardians of the Sea written by Robert Erwin Johnson and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Minding the Helm by : Kevin P. Gilheany
Download or read book Minding the Helm written by Kevin P. Gilheany and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The United States Coast Guard and National Defense by : Thomas P. Ostrom
Download or read book The United States Coast Guard and National Defense written by Thomas P. Ostrom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary by : John A. Tilley
Download or read book The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary written by John A. Tilley and published by United States Department of Transportati. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coast Guard History by : United States. Coast Guard
Download or read book Coast Guard History written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Coast Guardsman's Manual by : Jim Dolbow
Download or read book The Coast Guardsman's Manual written by Jim Dolbow and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Guardians of the Eighth Sea by : T. Michael O'Brien
Download or read book Guardians of the Eighth Sea written by T. Michael O'Brien and published by United States : Ninth Coast Guard District. This book was released on 1976 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the U.S. Coast Guard's activities on the Great Lakes.
Download or read book The Coast Guard written by Tom Beard and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an outstanding team of historians and officers, the definitive story of the U.S. Coast Guard is recorded for the first time in this magnificently illustrated, large-format book published with the Foundation for Coast Guard History.
Book Synopsis Not Your Father's Coast Guard by : Matthew Mitchell
Download or read book Not Your Father's Coast Guard written by Matthew Mitchell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II by : Malcolm F. Willoughby
Download or read book The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II written by Malcolm F. Willoughby and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Not Your Father's Coast Guard by : Matthew Mitchell
Download or read book Not Your Father's Coast Guard written by Matthew Mitchell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Coast Guard's many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known, its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed, the Guard didn't just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit cargo into Uncle Sam's 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 father's Coast Guard."
Book Synopsis The Coast Guardsman's Manual by : George E. Krietemeyer
Download or read book The Coast Guardsman's Manual written by George E. Krietemeyer and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendixes include a brief history of the Coast Guard, a glossary of nautical terminology, and the Armed Forces Code of Conduct."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis US Coast Guard in World War II by : Alejandro de Quesada
Download or read book US Coast Guard in World War II written by Alejandro de Quesada and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex de Quesada reveals the full history of the US Coast Guard throughout World War II in this Elite title. In particular, the book draws attention to the little-known story of how the US Coast Guard ran a number of the landing craft throughout D-Day in 1944 as well as providing crucial anti-U-boat patrols throughout the war years. A number of Coast Guard servicemen were lost in these two campaigns, and their undeniable contribution to the US war effort deserves greater recognition. The Coast Guard also provided aviators and gunners to the Merchant Marine and manned Port Security Services. These roles are all fully explained and illustrated with rare photographs and specially commissioned artwork.
Book Synopsis Character in Action by : Donald T. Phillips
Download or read book Character in Action written by Donald T. Phillips and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the U.S. Coast Guard create, instill, and maintain leadership throughout a 40,000 member force spread across the United States? A former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and a best-selling author combine their knowledge of the subject to offer a formula for success. Donald T. Phillips, who has written eight books on leadership, asserts that the Coast Guard is a superlative example of an organization with effective leadership, loaded with leaders at all levels. From a guardsman scraping barnacles off buoys in the Gulf of Mexico to the captain of a cutter in the Gulf of Alaska to the Commandant in Washington, they know exactly what leadership is, how it works, an d why it is important. This case study in leadership uses the Coast Guard as an example for other organizations who want to imbue leadership to every single one of its members. An effective leadership beacon, the book is replete with tangible examples, vivid anecdotes, and explicit guidelines on how to instill leadership throughout an entire organization. Stories abound on Coast Guard efficiency, innovation, and heroism and many are used to illustrate the service's effectiveness and to engage the reader. From the military and government communities to the business world, a variety of organizations can benefit from this outstanding leadership guide.
Book Synopsis The U.S. Coast Guard by : Dennis Noble
Download or read book The U.S. Coast Guard written by Dennis Noble and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of the United States Coast Guard from 1790 to the present day and discusses the Coast Guard's peacetime duties as well as contributions during wartime.
Book Synopsis First Fleet the Story of the U.S. Coast Guard at War by : Reg Ingraham
Download or read book First Fleet the Story of the U.S. Coast Guard at War written by Reg Ingraham and published by Sufi Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: r T TI o nr 1 FIRST The Story of the U. S. Coast Guard at War-REG INGRAHAM INTRODUCTION BY SECRETARY OF THE NAVY FRANK KNOX THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Publishers INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK 7. S. Coast Guard Flioto WAVES OF MEN AND WAVES OF WATER Waves of men as well as waves of water head for the beach as U. S. Coast Guardsmen drive their landing barges toward a South Pacific island during an intensive invasion drill. Many of the Coast Guardsmen participating in the early-morning drill are veterans of the original Guadalcanal invasion. . B 2 THE BOBBS-MERJULL COMPANY PRINTED NTHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA First Edition THE CORNWALL PRESS, INC., CORNWALL, N. Y. To Gertrude 1 3 1844 Introduction THE STORY of the Coast Guards role in this war is well known to those of us who have followed the course of the war at sea closely. But those who associate the Coast Guard mainly with its peacetime functions of safeguarding Ameri can lives and property at sea and protecting legitimate ship ping along our coasts and inland waterways might wonder what the activities of the service are in time of war. For those people this book will supply the answer. An operating part of the Navy since the Presidents decla ration of a national emergency in November, 1941, the Coast Guard fought hard and effectively in the Battle of the At lantic. The loss of ships and men suffered in this battle is sad, mute evidence of the force of its fight. More heartening evidence lies at the bottom of the sea in the battered hulls of German U-boats. Again the Coast Guard has been highly valuable in land ing operations. With their traditional knowledge of the handling of small boats in all kinds of surf and under all sorts ofconditions. Coast Guardsmen were with the first Marines that landed in the Solomons and they were an equally essential factor in the success of the Navy task forces that have since effected landings in North Africa, in Sicily, 7 INTRODUCTION in Italy and in the islands of the Pacific. The story of their work in these operations is one that deserves to be told in the permanent form of a book. But there are other things than these things for which the nation at war has been dependent upon the Coast Guard. The security of our all-important ports, the protection of our thousands of miles of coast line, the manning of many of our troop transports, the rescue of mariners at sea, the test ing and regulation of lifesaving equipment aboard our mer chant ships and the maintenance of necessary aids to navi gation all these are functions and responsibilities of the Coast Guard. They are jobs that have to be done and done well, and they are eminently worth reading about. FRANK KNOX. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS So many of the commissioned, enlisted and ci vilian personnel at Coast Guard Headquarters assisted in providing material for this boo that it would not be possible to list them here, but I wish particularly to express my thanks to Captain Ellis Reed-Hill and his staff, notably Warrant Officer Arthur Bernon Tourtellot f without whose friendly and expert co-operation the boo would not have been undertaken. The opportunity to tal with the Coast Guards quiet, capable Commandant, Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche, and such outstanding cutter captains as Commander James Hirshfield was of inestimable help. I also wish to than Mr. Archibald Ogden for his interest from the start. Contents CHAPTER PAGE I. THE FIRSTBLOW 17 II. THE FIRST FLEET 28 III. THE TURNING POINT 53 IV. COMBAT CUTTERS 90 V. THE INVADERS 119 VI. BLUIE WEST ONE 154 VII. PORT SECURITY 190 VIII. SAND-POUNDERS 215 IX. THE PICKET FENCE 234 X. SEARCH FOR SAFETY 257 XL COAST GUARD ALOFT 282 XII. SEAGOING SURGEONS 301 XIII. EIGHT BELLS . 3 10
