I just got done watching the Guardian. While it wasn't the best movie I've ever watched it did make me appreciate the Coast Guard even more. So thanks all in the CG and as I just joined the Aux I hope I can help out as well and maybe even some day work on base or at a station as a civilian .

Thanks!!!
-Kim

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Originally posted by girlwhoboards:
I just got done watching the Guardian. While it wasn't the best movie I've ever watched it did make me appreciate the Coast Guard even more.
Thanks!!!
-Kim

"The Guardian" showed the Air Crews, now you need to check out the movie, "The Perfect Storm" or watch the opening scene of "Clear and Present Danger" to watch the cutter folks.

Take care,

Don

thanks. i read the Perfect Storm in 3 days and watched the movie 3 times. i loved that one. i really liked the Guardian i just couldn't take Ashton too seriously or some of the social scenes. the training and SAR was good though and especially the extended commentary. i would also recommend reading the Cape Hatteras trilogy by Theodore Taylor or anything else by him as he's one of my favorite authors. reading, even fiction, about the early CG and thier work is very inspiring to me.
-Kim

girlwhoboards,

i agree with 21yrsUSCGUSCS; we folks that are/were in the aviation community are just one part of the big coast guard picture. the small boat/cutter folks play a very big role; we aviation types might have a friendly rivalry with them, but when it's "game time" we depend on their expertise to help get the job done.
in fact, they often take care of business well before we even arrive onscene. bottom line - we're all on the same team and there's quite a few different teammates you should read up on.

good luck!

this is true and so noted . every branch of the military and every faction of the world for that matter has it's rivals. but we are all on one team...of human existance. now within that, some agree and some don't...hence why we have wars and other conflicts. so i just try to side with doing good in the world, getting along and understanding as much as possible...especially with those i don't see eye to eye on. in this case yes, no one person can succeed without the whole team behind him or her. i play soccer so i know. so good job team CG and all the military folk out there doing what they do for us at home .
-Kim

Anyone who thinks there is truly a rivalry between small boat and aviation stations has never served in either. Now rivalry between aviation/small boat stations and everyone else, well they might have a point.

The truth is we all have our strong points and capabilities that are critical to getting the job done. Aviation can go out when surface can't and vice versa.

I actually thought the guardian was a pretty good movie despite some Hollywood hoopla thrown in. Hopefully there will be more movies about the CG because of it.

tankkllr,
Just for the record, and trying not to sound smug or better than anyone else. (because I'm not) I'm sure that if you ask any of the Surfmen from the 60s, 70s and 80s they would tell you the same thing. Out of my 28 yrs, 23 of which were here in the 13th Dist. stations as a Surfman, I have never seen a bar that we couldnt, and didnt cross. Now getting back in is a different story. I have spent many nights circling the whistler. In those days you would have been laughed out of the Lifeboat community if you said it was too rough to go out.
I do realize our resources are different now. Taking nothing away from todays men and women. They do a hell of a job. I have nothing but admiration and respect for them. Just setting the record straight. Dave

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I have spent many nights circling the whistler

Me too, but that was the CO's policy, not mine... I did have a talk with him, and we changed things....

Wray...

"Circling The Whistler" HA HA HA sounds like a sexual position. Sorry im always the one that goes there.
EM1

You all are forgetting the only CG movie that truely defines a specific rate/ job...Onionhead.

just my thoughts...
Dacook

Can't ever forget the WPB in the 1987 movie, "Overboard" with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093693/

Don

As we have seen "The Guardian". And others that have an apperance of the Coast Guard. You hear about all the long range rescues by aircraft in the news all the time. I'm sure SOS Coast Guard would have ground to a halt if not for the aviation community. Hardley anything about the boats/ships. This story is one that will make you sit back and say "holly crap. What could it have been like onboard the 47 for the crew). 4 hrs going out getting the crap beat out of you, then over 7 hours coming back. The 41's had to turn back as they were at the sea state max (almost) so a 47 had to go. This is the stuff that makes the Coast Guard what it is. Bet there were some sore crewmembers the next day.. Great job guys. You do us proud.

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If you're looking for something about the early CG, check out 'The Lightkeeper's Son' by Homer Hickham (author of 'Rocket Boys'). It's about the Coastwatchers and boat crews during WWII.
Parts of it are kind of cheesy- there's a love story blended in- but the action is pretty good.
I guess a sequal came out this summer, but I haven't been able to find it.

Thanks, that book looks good so I'll check it out. I watched the Guardian again and liked it the second time better as I tried to block out the Hollywood side and see it for the CG side of operations more. I just joined the Aux so I'm excited to be part of the team as much as I can and look for opportunities where i can work directly with the Gold and maybe as a Civie someday .
-Kim

Another Homer Hickam book, non-fiction, is "Torpedo Junction". Lots of excellent info about the CG off the east coast in the early days of WW II. I think there is some stuff in there about the Aux as well.

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Originally posted by Ex_CG_GM:
Another Homer Hickam book, non-fiction, is "Torpedo Junction". Lots of excellent info about the CG off the east coast in the early days of WW II. I think there is some stuff in there about the Aux as well.

I heard about that one but can't find it at my library.... I think it's time for a Barnes and Noble trip.

I ran across my copy (paperback) in a used bookstore.

Check Amazon.com. They have EVERYTHING.

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Originally posted by tc1uscg:
As we have seen "The Guardian". And others that have an apperance of the Coast Guard. You hear about all the long range rescues by aircraft in the news all the time. I'm sure SOS Coast Guard would have ground to a halt if not for the aviation community. Hardley anything about the boats/ships. This story is one that will make you sit back and say "holly crap. What could it have been like onboard the 47 for the crew). 4 hrs going out getting the crap beat out of you, then over 7 hours coming back. The 41's had to turn back as they were at the sea state max (almost) so a 47 had to go. This is the stuff that makes the Coast Guard what it is. Bet there were some sore crewmembers the next day.. Great job guys. You do us proud.

"Holy Cr@p" is right!
just imagining what that would have been like in a 47 ft'r... wow.
*hoisting a beer to all 47 crews.. heck, all of us for that matter. Why not a group 'atta boy' because neither of our 'Guards would be what they are without all the different factions (Shore stns, cutters, air stns, radio, etc)*
Cheers
Brad

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Originally posted by Ex_CG_GM:
Another Homer Hickam book, non-fiction, is "Torpedo Junction". Lots of excellent info about the CG off the east coast in the early days of WW II. I think there is some stuff in there about the Aux as well.

I heard about that one but can't find it at my library.... I think it's time for a Barnes and Noble trip.

Here's the link to Torpedo Junction on Amazon.

...gjd

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Originally posted by geejaydee:

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Originally posted by boarder19:

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Originally posted by Ex_CG_GM:
Another Homer Hickam book, non-fiction, is "Torpedo Junction". Lots of excellent info about the CG off the east coast in the early days of WW II. I think there is some stuff in there about the Aux as well.

I heard about that one but can't find it at my library.... I think it's time for a Barnes and Noble trip.

Here's the link to Torpedo Junction on Amazon.

...gjd

Thanks, that looks really good.
b19