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puddlepirate
09-24-2008, 12:26 PM
Since there are a couple of service specific threads going here, I figured there would be no harm in asking if there are any other Coast Guard retired/veterans on this board.
joyjohnr
09-30-2008, 10:20 AM
Darn few of us out here. I served in the Coast Guard from 1968-1972. Did a year in Nam on board the U.S.C.G.C. Taney, now a museum in Baltimore, MD.
I was fortunate enough to make a 6 month trip from our home in Oregon last fall. We went to Maine and then all the way down the Eastern Seaboard to Florida. Our trip included a stop in Baltimore where I got to once again walk the decks of the Taney. Quite an experience nearly forty years later.
Bill, Grants Pass, Oregon
2000 Holiday Rambler Imperial
White Jeep Cherokee
oldsnipe
10-01-2008, 03:49 PM
CWO3 here with 27 years time in service as of right now. Love my RV, use it to get away from it all. Going FT upon retirement. :D
Best Regards!
Paul D
djinruskin
10-25-2008, 07:08 PM
CWO4 (Mat) 30 years service, retired 11 years ago. Have been full time for the past 7 years and have traveled extensively for the first 3 years of it. This country is just to great not to see. The economy has put a damper on the travel plans for now, but have not given it up. Have run into a couple of former shipmates on the road,
Hope to see ya.
Dave J in FL
uscgheffe
12-10-2008, 05:25 PM
Active 83-2004. Camp whenever I am not traveling (job related). Mostly use Thousand Trails- Chesapeake Bay.
We are few in number. I always look at vehicles stickers to spot Coasties in the campground. Trying to full time in 4 years.
jersan
02-16-2009, 08:21 PM
Served for 23 years, retired 1979 and am enjoying life, was travelling full time but now spend 7 months out of the year in Yuma and travel the rest of the time visiting and mooching off old Coast Guard friends.
coastie3
03-25-2009, 02:34 PM
Spent 6 years in the Army learning to fly and then 15 in The Guard. Loved it and especially enjoy flying the Coast Guard flag on Marine bases. Loved both, but am probably partial to The Guard. As I am fond of saying...........
"The fewer,......... the smarter,....The U. S. Coast guard!
whodo
05-25-2009, 09:30 AM
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including Their life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown
On this Memorial Day let us all not forget all of our Brothers & Sisters in Arms that are no longer here.
Served '60-'62 aboard the USCGC Tamaroa out of Staten Island, N.Y. Aboard during the March Storm of '62 when the Texas Tower #4 went down, Walt Disney crew aboard filming the SS United States for the movie Bon Voyage. Then transferred over to the 3rd USCG Dist, US Custom House, N.Y.C. N.Y. from '62-'64.
Got out in '64 and became a cross country truck driver and retired in 2005, started RVing that same year which my brother talked me into it. Thanked him every day since. ha
ontheroadmoore
05-20-2010, 10:36 AM
Another Coastee out here on the road full-time. 1955 to 1969, L-24 at Cape May, the Barnegat Lightship, the Firebush, COTP/MIO Phila. Have been full-time RV'ing since 1998. Safe travels to all.
mountainjack
06-06-2010, 09:49 PM
Retired from the Coast Guard in 1979 after 22 years service. In the Navy 10 years before switching over to the Coast Guard. Served on the Minnietonka, Reliance, Loran Station Hawaii, MIO Houston and MSO Galveston.
Hey 'swabbies'
Are you aware of this web site http://www.coastguardchannel.com/index.shtml ?
It lets you keep up with your ol' shipmates. You can even get your own page so others can keep in touch with you.
thomdurkin
02-20-2011, 10:19 PM
Served from 1984 to 2006. Non-rate in Cape May, aviator in Kodiak, Clearwater, Opa Locka, and Elizabeth City. Just bought a Forest River Salem and am looking forward to adventures in RVing.
spiritwomyn
10-15-2011, 09:47 PM
I myself am Past President and Past Chaplin of an American Legion Auxilary unti. But, my mother was a Marine, my dad Coast Guard, a sister in the Air Force, two brothers and a son in the Navy a brother in the Army and my grandfather was Army aircorp. But I have not served in any branch, but with all the branches covered in the family I often feel like I am sitting in a military tree. LOL