Coast Guard Day 2019
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I was fine on active duty but really slacked off during my Reserve time.
All-in-all I was more than ready to get out at discharge.
I think this may have disappointed my father, who had an illustrious and stellar career but no sons who chose to follow in his footsteps.
I have a friend at work who is in the Coast Guard doing Reserve time.
She is a Chief Petty Officer, a rank to which I never aspired in the Navy.
She does her Reserve time in Virginia and dutifully travels there each and every time she is scheduled to do so.
While we both do computer work in our civilian lives she works in technology in the military as well.
We rather hit it off and have been compadres in adjacent offices of late.
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which is not something I've really been used to in the present environment.
We also indulge a spot of EmergenC frequently to stave off the various ills which may strike at us in the office while we mill about with the less health conscious.
Today is Coast Guard Day.
It is held every August 4 in commemoration of the founding of the United States Coast Guard as the Revenue Marine on August 4, 1790 Alexander Hamilton who was Secretary of the Treasury at that time.
It was then that the Congress of the US authorized the building of a fleet of the first ten Revenue Service cutters to enforce the tariff laws enacted by the Congress under the Constitution of the United States.
So Chief ... this is your day. Happy Coast Guard Day to you.