Hurricane Party--bring your swim suit and a towel!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is what we definitely DON'T want to see!



(Not sure if the Coast Guard is technically considered "armed" forces, but it was the closest tag I could find. I guess they do carry some weaponry.)

ETA: Regardless of whether the Coast Guard is armed forced, military or whatever, they're out there risking their asses to save some of ours:

 

Comments

[jasonbeast.livejournal.com]

Coast Guard is under Department of Transportation unless war is declared, at which point it is temporarily moved to Department of Defense. So ... government-controlled and armed, but not military, if that helps.

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

They're now part of Homeland Security, evidently.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

What isn't?

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

Seriously! We'll protect your freedom by taking big chunks of it away. I was about to draw an analogy between the Coast Guard on the Water and the National Guard on land, both being armed but generally home guard non-combatants, but that doesn't hold so true with NG being pressed unprecedentedly into foreign service when demands on our 'all volunteer' (for a while at least it was not so easy to leave when you thought your time was up) forces were insufficient for two simultaneous wars.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Back in the day if you were serving as a Coastie you couldn't be drafted, I know.

/dad served in the Coast Guard

/to avoid Vietnam

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter now. He served. That's what matters. Just posted the video of the CG rescuing the HMS Bounty survivors off the North Carolina coast. That's some badass stuff and better them than me!

[meleth.livejournal.com]

We used to live in Grand Forks, ND, and we've got some good pictures of my mom helping Coast Guard members pile up sandbags. My 5'1" mother.