The Navy League’s Seapower Magazine has published their “Coast Guard” issue. It is available on line.
Despite their name the Navy League has a strong association with the Coast Guard. In some places, it seems that the Coast Guard has succeeded in co-opting the organization, and it would be more accurate to call it the Coast Guard League.
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A big thank you to the Pacific Southwest region, Palm Springs and Imperial Valley Councils of the NL for their recent adoption of CGC BOUTWELL and CGC SHERMAN. This carries on a great relationship established between these councils and the cutters HAMILTON and CHASE in recent years.
Among other things, the councils recognize our Sailor of the Quarter/Sailor of the Year programs.
The link below takes you to local news coverage of the Change in Homport ceremony conducted July 29th. NL not mentioned, but during they keynoted the ceremony for us with the adoption of the cutters.
http://www.uscgsandiego.com/go/doc/830/1151107/
Navy League has also been huge supporters of not only our current cutters in commission, but also the commissioning ceremonies of BERTHOLF and WAESCHE the past few years.
Not to mention those great parties the Pueto Vallarta chapter hosts for us during SOUTHPAT portcalls. 😉
I was going to mention Puerto Vallarta 😀 Made several patrol breaks there ’92-’95 and they were always on the pier waiting for us and hooking us up with good deals, parties and information on activities.
There was a time when the Navy League was not so cooperative. A group of Coast Guard officers began their own, but short-lived, Coast Guard League. This was not new. In the 1890s, the RCS officers created an officer benevolent association that soon turned political. In the late 1890s, it became known as the Alexander Hamilton Society. There were regional RCS associations in the 1830s and 1840s. One group of New England officers filed a petition to get rid of the gray uniform in 1835 and were successful.
The purpose of the associations then was to promote a retirement system and benefits for the RCS officers. It helped lobby of things such as RCS officers and men being burial authorization in national cemeteries. The RCS was the last service to be allowed, behind Army nurses.
I have to wonder if the Navy League’s interest is flagging membership. Even the Coast Guard Foundation began allowing enlisted people and its function was to support the CGA.
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