Re: Coast guard update
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08/05/20 01:23 PM
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Yall duck hunters butter not lie about which one you shot first is all I gotta say.
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Re: Coast guard update
[Re: Scuba1]
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08/05/20 01:37 PM
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that doesn't even have room to put the people while they let boat sink rather than tow it in.
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Coast guard update
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08/05/20 01:41 PM
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That room is wasted space anyway because as you said. They just watch but don't do anything.
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Coast guard update
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Re: Coast guard update
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08/05/20 11:03 PM
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A couple of years back I was listening to some chatter on the VHF between the Coast Guard and a Sailing vessel off the coast of Hilton Head Island. The weather was not bad. But it was dark and the two people on the boat sent out a distress call because they were tired. Yup Tired and wanted assistance. Sure enough the CG sent out one of their boats to get those two back to dry land. So I asked them over the airwaves If they did Pizza deliveries as well as I was alone on board and hungry. That did not go down to well and they got all official with me LOL.
Let's go Brandon
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Re: Coast guard update
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08/06/20 03:10 PM
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I've had a lot of dealings with the local CG in a professional setting... The master chiefs are usually pretty good, but they never go out on the boats, they send these dryland juveniles out and they don't know squat, and they're terrified of the master chiefs, if they shine up the prop they get holy heck, so they stick to the channel where its safe, ..for them. Nowadays they won't even send a boat out for most distress calls, they send commercial assistance , like sea tow. The officers ain't much either, always getting transferred and no one knows the local waters. But they sure are smart, just ask any of them...
I know the guys in Alaska seem to tolerate them, maybe they send the cream of the crop there, here, we must get the rejects....with all due respect....
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Re: Coast guard update
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08/06/20 03:14 PM
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Any idiot can sail a ship in deep water, but it takes skill to navigate in shallow water. You don't get out much do ya ??
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Re: Coast guard update
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A couple of years back I was listening to some chatter on the VHF between the Coast Guard and a Sailing vessel off the coast of Hilton Head Island. The weather was not bad. But it was dark and the two people on the boat sent out a distress call because they were tired. Yup Tired and wanted assistance. Sure enough the CG sent out one of their boats to get those two back to dry land. So I asked them over the airwaves If they did Pizza deliveries as well as I was alone on board and hungry. That did not go down to well and they got all official with me LOL. there seems to be no shame in what people will call a distress call/911 call for these days. I had to call the Fire department once , Once , and there really was a fire and I had already used the fire extinguisher I had and I still felt bad for having to call.
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Coast guard update
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Any idiot can sail a ship in deep water, but it takes skill to navigate in shallow water. You don't get out much do ya ?? I’ll venture to say, you’ve seen more idiots in shallow water than in deep water.
Who is John Galt?
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Re: Coast guard update
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I had 27 years of duty with the Coast Guard. If you call them with a non threatening request, no injury to people or property, they must offer private assistance. They have to avoid competition with private business. Same for disaster response. They may deploy boom around an oil spill to help contain it, but a private business will be called to clean it up. I remember in the 60s and 70s we did all types of good sanitarian deeds, even giving away fuel and dewatering pumps. Not now. Budgets are tight and non compete rules are strict. Ships and aircraft are expensive. Search and rescue is still a major duty, as is drug interdiction, port safety, vessel inspections, certifications, and many more.
I retired in 94. At the beginning of Desert Storm, we had to inspect private vessels and mothball fleet vessels before they could carry supplies and munitions to Kuwait. You would not believe the condition of ships that showed up in major ports. You would never suspect that the Army would have no idea how to put their equipment on a vessel. Neither did the Navy.
As for the rolls of chiefs, senior chiefs, and master chiefs, they are mostly administrative and training billets. Warrant and Commissioned Officers are almost entirely admin and leadership jobs. I erred 10 years as enlisted and 17 with a Commission.
I’ll be glad to discuss CG issues with anyone on here.
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