USMC Answering Service

[SRT]

Who ya gonna call?

USMC Answering Machine – 1Funny.com

 

[vigil617]

The only thing that was left out:

"If your boat is sinking, you are drowning, you are standing on your rooftop while flood waters rise, your country is plagued by maritime smuggling of drugs, you find yourself in need of icebreaking at either Pole or the Great Lakes or your own home port, you are facing a massive oil spill, your national fisheries are being plundered, your ports need to be secured, your marine construction industry is required to be monitored for safety, your national aids to navigation need to be maintained and placed properly, your country is involved in foreign conflicts requiring vessel inspection and interdiction in coastal waters, your Navy needs to be augmented during time of war, and you need any of the above day or night, 24/7, in any and all weathers, please press 7 and you will be connected to the United States Coast Guard."

 

[Ziggy2525]

The only thing that was left out:

"If your boat is sinking, you are drowning, you are standing on your rooftop while flood waters rise, your country is plagued by maritime smuggling of drugs, you are facing a massive oil spill, your national fisheries are being plundered, your ports need to be secured, your marine construction industry is required to be monitored for safety, your national aids to navigation need to be maintained and placed properly, your country is involved in foreign conflicts requiring vessel inspection and interdiction in coastal waters, your Navy needs to be augmented during time of war, and you need any of the above day or night, 24/7, in any and all weathers, please press 7 and you will be connected to the United States Coast Guard."

In my younger days, I never had an appreciation for the Coast Guard. I wish I knew then what I know now.

Coast Guard does awesome work and definitely deserves more credit than they seem to get.

 

[deadin]

The Coasties are pretty low key... They don't toot their own horn much, they just buckle down and do their job. (And do it quite well if I may say!)

 

[Muss Muggins]

My Vietnam-era CWO4 Navy dad always told me I wasn't tall enough to be in the Coast Guard. He said you had to be at least 6'5", so you could walk ashore in the event your boat sank . . .

The only thing that was left out:

"If your boat is sinking, you are drowning, you are standing on your rooftop while flood waters rise, your country is plagued by maritime smuggling of drugs, you are facing a massive oil spill, your national fisheries are being plundered, your ports need to be secured, your marine construction industry is required to be monitored for safety, your national aids to navigation need to be maintained and placed properly, your country is involved in foreign conflicts requiring vessel inspection and interdiction in coastal waters, your Navy needs to be augmented during time of war, and you need any of the above day or night, 24/7, in any and all weathers, please press 7 and you will be connected to the United States Coast Guard."

 

[jimmyj]

Ask the Marines who U.S.C.G. Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munroe
is in reference Guadalcanal 1942

 

[vigil617]

Ask the Marines who U.S.C.G. Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munroe
is in reference Guadalcanal 1942

In fact, ask Chesty Puller himself. He was there with his Marines, and Douglas and his mates saved their bacon that fateful day. Semper Paratus and Semper Fi!

 

[vigil617]

My Vietnam-era CWO4 Navy dad always told me I wasn't tall enough to be in the Coast Guard. He said you had to be at least 6'5", so you could walk ashore in the event your boat sank . . .

He knew full well of the Coast Guard's blue-water capabilities, Muss, and the offshore fire support provided by the 327 and 311 class cutters during Vietnam in addition to the brown water patrols by the venerable 82 and 95 foot cutters -- including one that was strafed by mistake by our own guys, killing the Ltjg C.O. and another crew member.

Besides, as I always told anybody who joked about us as "shallow water sailors": "If it's deep enough to drown in, it's deep enough."

Thanks to your dad for his service. Warrant Officers are a breed unto themselves, CWO4s are the top of that breed, and I always admired them.