Thoughts on the US Coast Guard?

Thoughts on the US Coast Guard?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Epic and 76mm-pilled

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What USCG ships are using 76mm? I know all their recent shit is 57mm

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The Legare uses one

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yea the Famous-class are the only ones to use it, and it's only because they salvaged the weapons off of various decommissioned OHP-class frigates which happened to have 76mm guns. If the OHPs had 57mm guns the Famous-class would be using those.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I love the 76mm gun

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I can tell, just letting you know the coast guard uses it because it saved them $30M not squad they actually wanted 76mm specifically.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >squad
                Cause

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah but it's an epic gun it shoots good ammo. Big boom.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, but all future boats look like they're using 57mm bofors.
                The currently planned Heritage-class is expected to replace the Famous-class by the 2040s, and the Heritage-class is using the 57mm bofors gun.

                sorry friend.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                But big he with good fuze better than smol he with costlier fuze 🙁

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                How do you know it's costlier?

                Both the 76mm gun and 57mm gun are in the process of developing new low-cost guided munitions.

                I don't think anyone knows the full cost of either yet.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >57mm bofors
                >bofors

                Is that specific to the swedish company-made guns, or any type of bigly-fast gun where the penis flares at the end? It feels like the brand became synonymous with the item, at least for naval cannons where the dakka is quick. There's a marketing/business term for this, but I don't recall it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                From the looks of it it's an actual bofors.

                >term for it
                I think what you're thinking of is generic trademark, like kleenex and jell-o

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >There's a marketing/business term for this
                genericising
                classic examples: "hand me a kleenex" or "xerox this for me" (zoomers wouldn't get that one)
                no, the USN 57mm IS actually a Bofors

                >bigly-fast gun
                it's called an autocannon

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >tank has a designated poop chute
                Based swedes.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Orange and white is a GOAT color scheme.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    anyone have that video of Obama at a military thingy and he's like "is there army here" and the army people cheer and he does the same for Air Force and navy, and then he says coast guard and it's quiet then people laugh?

    can't find it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Obummer was too stupid to realize the coasties were under DOT not DOS so they would not be there.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        USCG hasn't been DoT for 21 years. They're not there because they're a tiny branch.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only branch actually protecting america

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >helping the CIA import drugs
      >protecting
      LAMO

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        CIA import with planes that landed at AFB in Alabama

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >he thinks drugs are the things destroying this country
        and that's why this ship is fricking sinking

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Surprisingly international for a coast guard.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wait until you hear about the National Guard

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Best food, best command, best career, best resume builder, gets no respect

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you spend your day-to-day actually saving people from live threatening situations instead of bombing children in some fricking desert you don't need to be constantly jerked off by everyone to feel good about yourself.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I grew up on the beach surfing, fishing, diving; all that shit. They’re the best, kinda like firefighters. Hearing the chopper fly over on hurricane days is pretty comforting tbh

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >flying helos and C130s through hurricane force winds looking for lost sailors
    >sniping drug smuggler engines from a helicopter
    >actually protecting America
    >immediately recognizable color scheme
    >tiny budget compared to other branches
    Incredibly based

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only people who actually defend this shithole country and are worth thanking for their service.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What the US police force wishes it was.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is exactly why I'd reorganize police forces into first responder departments. They would be first response officers that do police, fire, medical, and search/rescue. The PR would be ideal. As it stands now we have a corrupt EMS system and firefighters who are EMS trained, have ambulances, but for some reason don't transport people and sit around the firehouse all day jacking each other off. Cut the fat and integrate all the services into one bureau.

      There are nuances such as responder aids handling things like traffic accidents and being EMT trained for minor calls, different specialties, and different assignment days where you're focusing on medical or fire prevention this week, and on investigations the next week. It would work, I have experience and degrees in this field and don't see any errors.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >cross-train literally everyone
        Ah yes, one of those "why can't every soldier be trained to drive a tank and fly an F-15" morons

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Coast Guard, for pussies who are also homosexual homosexuals but somehow still too weak to join the US Navy
    There that's what I think.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Coast Guard, for pussies who are also homosexual homosexuals but somehow still too weak to join the US Navy
      They require higher standards to join compared to the navy, and are extremely active in a low intensity drug war and search and rescue operations, while performing all of the same policing of international waters that the Navy does.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      back to call of duty, timmy.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >While the U.S. Coast Guard is the second smallest of the U.S. military service branches in terms of membership, the service by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force.

    I think that's pretty neat

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Say what you want about the US armed forces but the sheer size of their navy never ceases to impress me.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty neat. They guard the coast and doesn't afraid of anything. Their ships are pretty.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've read that their bootcamp has some of the more aggressive hazing/smoking in the armed services via the whole RAMP reversion thing.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They have beautiful ships. Much more pleasing to the eyes than those soulless grey boxes the navy sails.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Forgot image

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I love em. Only branch of the military I give a single frick about.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    legend-class would be a better littoral combat ship than the current lcs

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The proposed "Patrol Frigate 4921" based on the Legend-class would actually be what we want.

      > Patrol Frigate 4921 is a more radical redesign with a crew of 141, adding weapons and sensors at the expense of reducing range from 12,000 to 8,000 nautical miles (22,000 to 15,000 km). It adds a 12-cell Mk 56 VLS launcher for ESSM air-defense missiles, just behind the main gun, which is upgraded from 57mm to a 76 mm Super Rapid. Two quad launchers for Harpoon antiship missiles and a triple launcher for torpedoes are added to the stern. It retains the SeaRAM/Phalanx CIWS and 6 machine guns of other NSC variants. The stern is closed in and houses a towed-array sonar; a hull sonar is installed for mine countermeasures and an ESM suite.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's 2.5-3.5x what LCS boats have for crew size though, so would need a few thousand more sailors for the same number of ships.

        Offensive capabilities look great though.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't go to Kodiak.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    GlowBlack person Navy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >helping the CIA import drugs
      >protecting
      LAMO

      no one likes you

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can the coast guards beat the Russian Navy?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      probably not unless they spent a few years installing equipment that the ships are built for but not with.

      The ships were often designed for larger and more weapons than were originally installed and in some cases extra sensors, space for torpedos or missile launchers, etc. So if you spent the time and money needed to install all of those systems to bring the USCG fleet up to "war" standard, then MAYBE. But they still are missing out on naval air power and subs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Russian Navy might be bad, but the Coast Guard isn’t really equipped to deal with a force that large.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When I was touring a coastie facility in Pensacola they told us a story.
    >Rescue stranded sailor and a couple babes who broke down
    >He invited them to a party on a yacht
    >Have fun
    >Next day they find out he was a wanted drug smuggler

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    my dad was uscg. he kept trying to get me to be a cook for them lol.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Absolute trash
    >Ex-coastie saying so.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They soon getting new Icebreakers for running speed chinese cargo vessels in the year 2027 in the arctic

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People jumping ship due to shit leadership and decisions.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >mandatory pronoun training
    >Secret police within the CG who's specific job is to stalk members social media and frick them for anything possible
    >You went to a party, and some stranger smoked weed in the backyard? You get kicked out for drug usage.
    >Show up hung over because you were called in on your weekend off? Kicked out.
    >Chief or higher officer rapes you? You get kicked out and they retire.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      police within the CG who's specific job is to stalk members social media and frick them for anything possible
      Its funny because these have been around since I joined in 2007. My old XO got discharged because he argued with someone on MySpace back in the day.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >because he argued with someone on MySpace
        back then it was usually just some bored HR exec randomly googling employee names
        >t. my mum

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bigger ships and bigger guns than the average navy

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