Talk:History of the United States Coast Guard

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U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office should be mentioned not only as a extnal link... -- Scriberius 21:20, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

This article is missing the Coast Guards role in World War I. I will be working on this in the next few months to see if I can remedy this situation. Cuprum17 (talk) 00:08, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I noticed that this article always uses "Revenue Cutter Service" which was not the official name until 1894. You would never know that it was the "Revenue Marine". The wiki article for "Revenue Cutter Service" is careful to keep this straight, but not this article or the main Coast Guard article. Why is this? Jmosman (talk) 19:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Under the "1980s" heading, I think a mention of the Libyan SCUD missile attack on LORAN Station Lampedusa needs to be mentioned. This was the only direct attack on US military personnel by the Libyan government after the US military strike there in 1986. It was a pretty big deal, not only that it was a direct attack on the US Coast Guard, but also in the way it was handled and how the Italians were left out in the proverbial "rain". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.97.88 (talk) 21:05, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

involvement in iraq an Afghanistan
i would like to make a recommendation on the coast guards involvement in iraq an Afghanistan.--Nrpf22pr (talk) 15:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

System of Cutters
The "system of cutters" was the first designation of what is now USCG. Use of this designation preceded U.S. Revenue Marine Service. Here are two of many references: Semper Paratus Tjlynnjr (talk) 12:38, 15 June 2014 (UTC).
 * USCG Historian's Office http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/USRC_Photo_Index.asp Retrieved 11 June 2014.
 * USCG Historian's Office http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/Policy_Changes.asp Retrieved 15 June 2014.

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"The rescue of men from the bow of Fort Mercer was nearly as spectacular as the Pendleton rescue, though often overshadowed by the Pendleton rescue."

This sentence is unneccessarily funny as the caption of the chapter is only "Pendleton rescue" while describing both rescues ... I kindly suggest this to be corrected and the chapter renamed to "Pendleton & Fort Mercer rescues" (or so). Going by temporal sequence or number of rescued persons it might even be correct to put Mercer first, but who would dare to do that ? JB. --92.195.67.181 (talk) 04:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

9/11 details
The little note under 2000s that reads "For details on the Coast Guard's response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, see Missions of the United States Coast Guard above." is totally unclear and apparently never linked anywhere where such details can be found TMV943 (talk) 05:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

new section added
added new section, Marine Electric sinking. --Sm8900 (talk) 16:11, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Taney
Please discuss questions about the accuracy of claims made about Taney and the attack on Pearl Harbor on the Taney talk page.--Mox La Push (talk) 07:44, 2 July 2020 (UTC)--Mox La Push (talk) 08:12, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, check the Taney talk page. I am deleting your "Dubious" here as well. If you had checked the cites at Taney before tagging you'd have found the long standing National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, done by a professional historian and fully cited, supporting the claim. The historian cited the Action Report, December 7-20, 1941, Com. L. B. Olsen to Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, At Sea, Pacific Ocean, 22 Dec. 1941,” and “USCGC Taney (WPG-37) History Data;” p. 1 Public Information Div., USCG HQ, copies in Taney File, USCG HQ. Palmeira (talk) 17:00, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

kurdika incident begins with incomplete sentence
the first sentence of this section is:

On 23 November 1970, Simonas "Simas" Kudirka, a Soviet seaman of Lithuanian nationality, leapt from the 400-foot (120 m) mother ship Sovetskaya Litva, anchored in American waters (near Aquinnah, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard Island), aboard the USCGC Vigilant, sailing from New Bedford.

so the soviet sailor leapt from the litva anchored in marthas vineyard, aboard the uscgc vigilant... either someone deleted something from this sentence or rephrased it and forgot to complete the thought. i am guessing "aboard" was intended to be "and boarded" or "then came aboard" the uscgc vigilant. just saying "aboard the uscgc vigilant" after the dependent clause explaining where the litva was anchored, is stating the litva was aboard the vigilant or marthas vineyard was aboard the vigilant. kurdika boarded the vigilant, correct? the soviets were then allowed to board vigilant to retrieve him? Christo1234 (talk) 12:50, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that this is a parenthetical phrase:
 * from the 400-foot (120 m) mother ship Sovetskaya Litva, anchored in American waters (near Aquinnah, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard Island)
 * but the comma that should mark the beginning of the parenthetical phrase is missing.
 * The basic sentence without any of its encumbering phrases is:
 * Simonas "Simas" Kudirka leapt aboard the USCGC Vigilant.
 * With this one parenthetical phrase added and properly bracketed by commas, the sentence becomes:
 * Simonas "Simas" Kudirka leapt, from the 400-foot (120 m) mother ship Sovetskaya Litva, anchored in American waters (near Aquinnah, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard Island), aboard the USCGC Vigilant.
 * but you are right, the sentence is hard to parse. How about this:
 * On 23 November 1970, Simonas "Simas" Kudirka leapt from the Soviet mother ship Sovetskaya Litva onto the USCGC Vigilant. The 400-foot (120 m) Sovetskaya Litva was anchored in American waters near Martha's Vineyard Island. Kudirka was a Soviet seaman of Lithuanian nationality.
 * We can leave out Aquinnah and New Bedford as details which do not contribute to the narrative.
 * Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 03:18, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * In the absence of any objections, I made the change I suggested above.
 * Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 04:29, 7 January 2023 (UTC)