This 1967 Coast Guard film ("Ngung Lai") chronicles the Coast Guard cutter patrols along the Vietnamese coast.
VIDEO HERE (26:18 minutes)
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And a look at today's Coast Guard:
Director Stuart Calcote’s High-Definition camera crew spent twelve days aboard the Mohawk as it sailed on a course from Key West, Florida, to Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Puerto Rico. Every aspect of the crew’s life and work on board the Mohawk was documented. From early morning revelry to taps at night, from high above the bridge to the depths of the engine room, this program follows the lives of the U.S.S. Mohawk’s officers and crew as they guard the shores of America.
VIDEO HERE (50:05 minutes)
". . .early morning revelry. . ." Well, that explains so much.
ReplyDeleteearly morning revelry
ReplyDeleteHeh, them coasties.
"morning revelry" ??
ReplyDeleteIs it "USS Mohawk" or "USCGC Mohawk"?
ReplyDeleteCGC Mohawk.
DeleteSweepers sweepers man your brooms...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I remember hearing revelry in the morning. Usually from still-drunk sailors. Reveille, OTOH....
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
My late BIL served in the CG there and then he had some great stories to tell. I miss him a lot, great guy.
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I have a friend from work, who was enlisted in the Coast Guard. He was a short fellow, but scrappy. Most of the work that they did was drug containment on the east and southern coast. Towards the end of his enlistment of hist time, but he did say that some of those they intercepted were real assholes. But that most of them would know that they would be out to ply their trade before they continued the messaged from their hidden places. Mostly they never did figure how they ate so well.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about living on the coast is the seriously good search and rescue, and emergency medical people. Lots of hunky life savers get 'er done 24/7/365... guys who can get an IV in you on a boat being pitched by those huge waves... and, no kidding, they make you feel like precious cargo, and not a great big old drag when they're doing it.
ReplyDelete--nines
Best manager I ever had was a Coastie. WO Mangold, You really made a difference, Semper Paratus! Bravo Zulu Boss!
ReplyDeleteMohawk? Isn't that indigenous peoples cultural appropriation?
ReplyDeleteDamn, dude, clicked your name on accident and this popped up:
Delete"Does anyone really believe Obama will relinquish the presidency next January?"
Might be time to update the top headline to something about Dimentia Joe or Emperor Poopypants or the next president McCarthy or something...