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Author : James C. Bunch
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563111047
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Coast Guard Combat Veterans written by James C. Bunch and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Snow Wildsmith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491213
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Joining the United States Coast Guard written by Snow Wildsmith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Coast Guard. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join, talking to recruiters, getting qualified, preparing for basic training, and learning what to expect at basic recruit training. The goal is to help young people who might be curious about serving in the Coast Guard decide if it is right for them, if they are qualified for and prepared for it and if the Navy, Army or Marine Corps would be a better fit.
Author : Alejandro de Quesada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780962150
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
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.
Author : Matthew Mitchell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449044417
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
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.
Author : Malcolm F. Willoughby
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612519938
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
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.
Author : Mark A. Snell
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700633944
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Fighting Coast Guard written by Mark A. Snell and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, written by some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States’ oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The Fighting Coast Guard features three distinct sections: “Beginnings,” which includes a short overview of the US Revenue Cutter Service (the USCG’s primary forerunner, established in 1790) and two chapters on World War I; “Conflagration,” the role of the USCG during the World War II era; and “The Cold War and Beyond,” an assessment of the Coast Guard’s participation in the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The Fighting Coast Guard is a significant contribution to the limited historiography of the Coast Guard and a critical analysis of various wartime roles undertaken by the Coast Guard during America’s twentieth-century conflicts. Because the Coast Guard operated as part of the Department of the Navy during the two world wars, its service and history is often overlooked or envoloped by the larger service, while the USCG’s limited participation in cold and hot wars since 1945 is often ignored altogether. This anthology provides readers with a solid overview while highlighting some of the service’s most important contributions as a combatant force. This definitive study of the role of the US Coast Guard in wartime, from its modern inception in 1915 through the end of the twentieth century, is long overdue and will shed new light on America’s smallest military service.
Author : Kristin Marciniak
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629685348
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)
Download or read book US Coast Guard written by Kristin Marciniak and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each branch of the US armed forces has a unique job to do and important contributions to make. This title highlights the history and achievements of the US Coast Guard. Easy-to-read, engaging text explores the military branch's key missions and important roles in protecting the United States. Learn about cutting-edge technology and weapons, and discover what it is like to join the US Coast Guard and have a career in the branch. Well-placed sidebars, vivid photos, helpful maps, abundant charts, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of the topic. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Donna B. McKinney
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1098210182
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)
Download or read book US Coast Guard written by Donna B. McKinney and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights a wide range of careers in the US Coast Guard, from pilots to pharmacists to rescue swimmers. The title discusses the required training and duties of each career, along with the branch's history and overall mission. Features include a glossary, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453710
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The United States Coast Guard in World War II written by Thomas P. Ostrom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war. Teaming up with other international forces, the Coast Guard provided crewmembers for Navy and Army vessels as well as its own, carried troops, food, and military supplies overseas, and landed Marine and Army units on distant and dangerous shores. This thorough history details those and other important missions, which included combat engagement with submarines and kamikaze planes, and typhoons. On the home front, port security missions involving search and rescue, fire fighting, explosives, espionage and sabotage presented their own unique dangers and challenges.
Author : M. L. Buchman
Publisher : Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book The Complete US Coast Guard written by M. L. Buchman and published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five tales of romance and rescue. At home, the US Coast Guard rescues thousands of civilians up and down our coasts and inland waterways. The smallest US military service also deploys globally. But no waters in the world are more dangerous than the Columbia River Bar in Astoria, Oregon. Come enjoy five tales of romance, saving hearts and souls in the harshest search-and-rescue environment in America. (Includes exclusive author intros for each story—previously published separately.)
Author : Kevin P. Gilheany
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417568
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
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.
Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bloodstained Sea written by Michael G. Walling and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to life."--Jacket.
Author : Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz Uscg (Ret)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646635238
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Breaking Ice and Breaking Glass written by Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz Uscg (Ret) and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A prime resource for any leader's library." -James Mattis, General, US Marines (ret), and 26th Secretary of Defense Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and respect necessary for organizations and their people to thrive. In Breaking Ice and Breaking Glass, Admiral Sandy Stosz draws upon her forty years of extensive experience and wisdom to provide tools that will help leaders reach their goals and succeed at every level. Character-centered, proven leadership principles emerge from these engaging, personal stories that teach leaders how to find, and then become, an inspiring mentor; implement successful diversity, inclusion, and equity programs; successfully lead in a complex environment; and much more. Leaders eager to make a difference by helping people and organizations be their best will find Breaking Ice and Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters their go-to resource.
Author : AimeeAnn Blythe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book For U. S. Military Members and Veterans: Duty Stations, Friends, Memories and Life Planner for Your Loved Ones written by AimeeAnn Blythe and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For U.S. COAST GUARD-- Active Military Members and Veterans--even if you served years ago Only YOU have the memories of military friends, duty stations, dates and positions. Leave a legacy. Your memories are priceless. The DD214 does not include every TDY & PCS station. How will your loved ones know the hard work, friendships, serious and humorous stories of your journey unless you write it down? Computers and internet are not always reliable and loved ones may not have access to your computer. If your child or grandchild wanted to know about your military history, perhaps for a school project, where would they find it? Record your history for loved ones and future generations. Sadly, some memories fade over time. This 8.5 x 11, user-friendly, convenient, all in one place, military information/planner in LARGE print has pages for your military information as well as utility, financial, education, important contacts, personal wishes, and extra pages for other life experiences. Click Look Inside icon on the book to see table of contents Do your loved ones know which bills to pay, if need be? YOU choose which sections to fill out. Note: My books in this series are the following military branches, Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard, Coast Guard and Space Force. The interior of these books is the same, only the military branch on the front cover of each book is different. This book is not a legal document and does not replace a will. Thank You For Your Service!
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book U.S. Coast Guard Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. Shea
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433972433
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Heroes of the US Coast Guard written by John M. Shea and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peacetime duties make the US Coast Guard unique among the many branches of armed force units. This military branch has a broad mission that includes search-and-rescue operations, environmental safety patrols, and boat safety. This fascinating look at the Coast Guard reveals its history and includes some of the most riveting stories of our nation's finest men and women in uniform.
Author : Thomas P. Ostrom
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786464807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
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 2011-10-10 with total page 0 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.
