Breaking Faith with America's Coast Guard
Proceedings Magazine - January 2019 Vol.
By Admiral Paul Zukunft, U.S. Coast Guard
(Retired)
For more than 45 years I had the distinct honor of wearing the uniform of a Coast Guardsman. My career culminated in serving for every man and woman—active, reserve, civilian, auxiliary, and their family members—as the 25th Commandant of the Coast Guard. Over 35 of those years were spent on the front lines of Coast Guard operations including eight commands at a time when my service was obliged to operate under the mantra of “doing more with less.†“Doing more with less†are appropriate words for a martyr, and the one certainty of being a martyr is inevitable death. Thus, during my tenure, I set out to rid the Coast Guard of this lexicon and am deeply indebted to my senior leadership team, the Department of Homeland Security, and the 114th and 115th Congresses for the largest appropriation in Coast Guard history.
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