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Posts from ‘March, 2007’

Coast Guard Academy Task Force Report Located

Thanks to Tidewater Musings here the link to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Organizational and Climate Assessment Task Force Report.
The report is sprinkled with historical quotes with my favorite being: “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Thomas Paine Common Sense, 1776

CGNewsTip: Panel Finds Troubled Mood at Coast Guard Academy

Additional information on the report at the New York Times
NEW LONDON, Conn. — The United States Coast Guard Academy has lost its way, struggling with a climate of distrust and cynicism in which nearly a quarter of the cadets say they would not report a classmate who committed sexual assault, a task force reported on [...]

Today in Coast Guard History – March 31st

1932- United States signed Whaling Convention at Geneva with 21 other countries.
1995- Coast Guard Communication Area Master Station Atlantic sent a final message by Morse Code and then signed off, officially ending more than 100 years of telegraph communication.

CGNewsTip: Report: Coast Guard Academy Lost Its Way

Surprisingly, this is the first news I’ve seen about todays report.
Full story at Yahoo! News
NEW LONDON, Conn. – The U.S. Coast Guard Academy has lost its way and is struggling with a climate of distrust and cynicism in which nearly one in four cadets say they would not report classmates who commit sexual assault, a [...]

CGNewsTip: Antique Coast Guard Cutter Damaged

Full story at The Columbian
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Ship renovators are looking for a dry dock to repair an 80-year-old Coast Guard cutter that received damage to its hull when it was untied from its moorings.
The ship Alert had been docked at the Thunderbird Hotel on Hayden Island when someone untied the cutter and set [...]

CGNewsTip: Coast Guard May Build Anti-Terrorist Shooting Range

BOURNE, Mass. –Camp Edwards on the Massachusetts Military Reservation is one of two sites being considered for new firing ranges needed to train Coast Guard anti-terrorist units, officials say.
The “shoot houses,” which would be configured to look like the inside of a ship or building, would be used by elite Coast Guard teams to train [...]

Coast Guard Responds to Vessel Taking on Water

MIAMI – Coast Guard Sector Miami responded to the motor vessel LADY K taking on water, which became unstable and dumped its cargo into the water at Baker’s Haulover Inlet early Friday morning.
At about 7:05 a.m., the Coast Guard received a notice that the motor vessel LADY K was taking on water with approximately 1,000 [...]