Slightly more than 5,000 boats were registered with the Coast Guard prior to the recent passage of the state boating law.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

It is important to note the work of the United States Power Squadrons and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Division six will be headed by the Coast Guard, followed by the reserve forces of all services, five states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territories and the Canal Zone.

** Flotilla-the flotilla is the operational part of the Coast Guard, and consists of 3 vessels.

* 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service ( the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard ).

* Coast Guard Day ( U. S .)

Representatives from the agency visit the island on average once every two years, often coordinating transportation with amateur radio operators or the U. S. Coast Guard to defray the high cost of logistical support required to visit this remote atoll.

The United States Coast Guard refers to such boats as ' FRP ' ( for Fibre Reinforced Plastic ) boats.

United States Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion.

The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle, noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, much documentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangle authors.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

( US Coast Guard )

The following websites have either online material that supports the popular version of the Bermuda Triangle, or documents published from official sources as part of hearings or inquiries, such as those conducted by the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard.

* United States Coast Guard database of selected reports and inquiries

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

Additional awards of the Bronze Star Medal are denoted by oak leaf clusters in the Army and Air Force and 5 / 16 inch stars in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.

Category: Awards and decorations of the United States Coast Guard

The force has two independent branches, the Army and the Coast Guard.

The Canadian Coast Guard College is located nearby at Westmount.

* Coast Guard Intelligence, the intelligence branch of the United States Coast Guard

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

In contemporary use in the U. S. Armed Forces, the Legion of Merit is typically awarded to Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force general officers and colonels, and Navy and Coast Guard flag officers and captains occupying command or very senior staff positions in their respective services.

Military advisers from the United Kingdom and India work with the SMF, the Coast Guard, and the Police Helicopter Unit, and Mauritian police officers are trained in the United Kingdom, India, and France.

The United States provides training to Mauritian Coast Guard officers in such fields as seamanship and maritime law enforcement.

Membership is for former and present officers and enlisted personnel of the United States Coast Guard, and designated pilots of other military services and foreign governments who have piloted Coast Guard aircraft while involved in exchange programs between the Coast Guard and their respective service or government.

In the United States, swords with sabre blades are worn by Army, Navy, and Coast Guard officers.

The Director of the Marshals Service is authorized by ( authorizing Director of Marshals Service to appoint " such employees as are necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the Service ") to deputize the following individuals to perform the functions of Deputy Marshals: selected officers or employees of the Department of Justice ; federal, state or local law enforcement officers ; members of the United States Coast Guard when appropriate, private security personnel to provide courtroom security for the Federal judiciary ; and other persons designated by the Associate Attorney General ".

The Bangladesh Coast Guard's officers are transferred from the Bangladesh Navy.

Officers of Maritime Patrol Directorate General are law executors, but officers of Coast Patrol Directorate General are soldiers who have partial law-enforcement power.

The German Federal Coast Guard, known as the Küstenwache, is both a civilian service and a law enforcement organisation, staffed with both police officers and certain civilians from the various German federal agencies associated with maritime administration with responsibility for the coordination of all law enforcement activities within its jurisdiction.

Coast Guard officers carries the same equipment and similar uniforms to regular Swedish police officers.

NCOs serving in the top three enlisted grades ( E-7, E-8, and E-9 ) are termed senior noncommissioned officers ( chief petty officers in the Navy and Coast Guard ).

Pilots are also merchant marine officers and are licensed by the Coast Guard.

Category: United States Coast Guard officers

Unlike the Army and Navy, but like the Marine Corps ( throughout boot camp ) and Coast Guard ( during the first section of boot camp ), trainees are required to refer to all Airmen, enlisted and NCO's as well as commissioned and warrant officers, as " sir " or " ma ' am.

However, recruits of the United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard address both male commissioned and non-commissioned officers as " sir " in basic training, especially drill instructors ( USMC ) and company commanders ( USCG ).

This center also receives prompt reports on earthquakes from four Coast Survey stations in the Pacific which are equipped with seismographs.

Along the Gulf Coast there are seasonal runs of Tarpon, pompano, Red drum, and bonito.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

On the opposite extreme, summers in the Southern Interior valleys are hot ; for example in Osoyoos the July Maximum averages, hot weather sometimes moves towards the Coast or to the far north of the province.

The Berkeley Hills are part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, and run in a northwest – southeast alignment.

Both the terms coast and coastal are often used to describe a geographic location or region ; for example, New Zealand's West Coast, or the East and West Coasts of the United States.

Canal Estates ( commonly known as bayous ) are a form of subdivision popular in cities like Miami, Florida, Texas City, Texas and the Gold Coast, Queensland ; the Gold Coast has over 700 km of residential canals.

Colombia's most important ocean terminals are Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast and Buenaventura and Tumaco on the Pacific Coast.

In the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, the senior elected officer of the organization is the National Commodore, also there are commodores elected for the individual district commands of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

In the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary-PCGA, each of the directors in command of the 10 Coast Guard Auxiliary districts are commodores, as well as most of the Deputy National Directors ( some may be rear admirals ).

Other variants of East Coast Swing that use altered footwork forms are known as Single Swing or " Single-step Swing " ( where the triple step is replaced by a single step forming a slow, slow, quick, quick rhythm common to Foxtrot ), and Double Swing ( using a tap-step footwork pattern ).

In practice on the social dance floor, the six count steps of the East Coast Swing are often mixed with the eight count steps of Lindy Hop, Charleston, and less frequently, Balboa.

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

Ringing the Gulf Coast is the Gulf Coastal Plain which reaches from Southern Texas to the western Florida Panhandle. while the western portions of the Gulf Coast are made up of many barrier islands and peninsulas, including the Padre Island and Galveston Island located in the U. S. State of Texas.