PATFORSWA: Guardians of the Arabian Gulf
Posted by PA2 Connie Terrell, Monday, August 22, 2016
As the Coast Guard has now crossed into our 226th year of proudly serving America, we will highlight our long history of ensuring national security throughout the entire month of August. This blog is part four of our history series which will be featured every Monday in August. Join the celebration on social media by using hashtags: #HappyBdayUSCG, #CheersUSCG and #CGhistory.
The sun sets behind an oil terminal as the Coast Guard Cutter Maui (WPB 1304) conducts security patrols in the North Arabian Gulf, Sept. 27. Maui is conducting Maritime Security Operations (MSO) in the gulf as apart of Combined Task Force 158. MSO help set the conditions for security and stability in the North Arabian Gulf and protect Iraq’s sea-based infrastructure to help provide the Iraqi people the opportunity for self-determination. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt j.g. Peter Lang.
Written by Lt. Eric D. Nielsen
All who enter Coast Guard boot camp are asked a seemingly innocuous indoctrination question: “What is the Coast Guard?” To which the appropriate response is: “The Coast Guard is the hard nucleus about which the Navy forms in times of war, sir!”
Coast Guard Boatswain’s Mate 1st class Brandon Hines, a member of USCGC ADAK’s (WPB 1333) boarding team, conducting an approach on USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG-68) in the Arabian Gulf during USCG/USN war fighter training. (photo by Boatswain’s Mate 2nd class Andrew Vardakis)
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st class Brandon Hines, a member of Coast Guard Cutter Adak’s boarding team, conducts an approach to the USS The Sullivans in the Arabian Gulf during war fighter training. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd class Andrew Vardakis.
There is some truth to that seemingly silly answer; for 226 years, the U.S. Coast Guard has served the nation as one of the five Armed Forces, and has served in every major American conflict since its founding as the Revenue Marine in 1790. After the Continental Navy was disbanded in 1785, the first federal Congress formed “the system of cutters” under Alexander Hamilton. From the Quasi-War with France in 1798, through the Civil War, the World Wars, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Global War on Terror, the Coast Guard (and our predecessor services) have participated in U.S. naval battles around the world
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