Happy birthday to America's oldest continuously operating sea going military service

[Freda'sMom]

Happy birthday to the United States Coast Guard.

 

[THParent]

For 228 years, the Coast Guard has been tasked with protecting waterways, saving lives, and enforcing laws in the United States and abroad.
A very “Happy Birthday” to the Coast Guard!


Ah yes. "Continuously". I see what you did there. (The U.S. Navy was disbanded after the Revolutionary War).

 

[Capt MJ]

Happy Birthday, sister sea service!

 

[AF6872]

They go out when everyone else goes in. Happy Birthday.

 

[THParent]

"Well, Mr. Stello, in the Coast Guard they say you gotta go out. But they don't say you gotta come back ..."

Maybe The Finest Hours wasn't entirely accurate (how many movies are?), but it succeeded in being pretty darned good.

 

[Jcleppe]

Semper Paratus