Coast guard

Question 1

Coast Guard Ethos

Answer 1

In service to our Nation
With honor, respect, and devotion to duty
We protect
We defend
We save
We are Semper Paratus
We are the United States Coast Guard

Question 2

What is accountability?

Answer 2

on the sea there is a tradition older even than the traditions of the country itself. It is the tradition that with responsibility goes authority and with them both goes accountability.

Question 3

What is Honor?

Answer 3

Integrity is our standard. We demonstrate uncompromising ethical conduct and moral behavior in all of our personal actions. We are loyal and accountable to the public trust

Question 4

What is Respect?

Answer 4

We value our diverse work force. We treat each other with fairness, dignity, and compassion. We encourage individual opportunity and growth. We encourage creativity through empowerment. We work as a team

Question 5

What is Devotion to Duty?

Answer 5

We are professionals, military and civilian, who seek responsibility, accept accountability, and are committed to the successful achievement of our organizational goals. We exist to serve. We serve with pride.

Question 6

Who is the Father of the Coast Guard?

Answer 6

the Father of the Coast Guard is
Alexander Hamilton. Congress passed Alexander Hamilton’s Revenue Cutter Bill which provided for the construction often armed cutters to protect and ensure revenue collection.

Question 7

What are the original ten cutters of the Revenue Cutter Service?

Answer 7

the original ten cutters of the Revenue Cutter Service were the EAGLE
SCAMMEL
ACTIVE
MASSACHUSETTS
VIRGINIA
ARGUS
DILIGENCE
VIGILANT
SOUTH CAROLINA
GENERAL GREENE

Question 8

Who was Hopley Yeaton?

Answer 8

President George
Washington commissioned Hopley Yeaton as the first officer of the Revenue Cutter Service

Question 9

Who is the most celebrated life-saver in the world?

Answer 9

Joshua James is the most celebrated life-saver in the world! He began at the age of 15 and continued his service through his death at 74. As a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, he is credited with saving over 600 lives.

Question 10

What are the roots of the Coast Guard?

Answer 10

the roots of the Coast Guard were the:
Life-Saving Service
Lighthouse Service
Revenue Cutter Service
Bureau of Navigation, and the
Steamboat Inspection Service

Question 11

What is the Coast Guard’s pride and joy?

Answer 11

the Coast Guard’s pride and joy is the Barque EAGLE.
She is a 295 foot barque training vessel home ported in New London, Connecticut. She was built in 1936 in Germany and acquired as a war prize at the end of WWII

Question 12

Who was the father of CG aviation?

Answer 12

the father of Coast Guard Aviation is Commander Elmer Stone, who was appointed as Coast Guard Aviator No. I on April 10th, 1917

Question 13

Who was Douglas Munro?

Answer 13

September 27, 1942 at Point Cruz on Guadalcanal, Signalman l/c Munro led the rescue of a detachment of Marines trapped on the beach by the attacking Japanese. Using his vessel as a shield from the enemy, four other Higgins boats loaded the Marines. Munro, fatally wounded, was awarded the Medal of Honor

Question 14

What is the CUYAHOGA?

Answer 14

the CGC CUYAHOGA was an officer candidate training vessel. On the night of 20 October 1978, she collided with the SANTA CRUZ II in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac River. She sank quickly and eleven shipmates were lost

Question 15

What are the Coast Guard missions?

Answer 15

the eleven statutory missions of the Coast Guard are, ports, waterways, and coastal security, drug interdiction, aids to navigation, search and rescue, living marine resources, marine safety, defense readiness, migrant interdiction, marine environmental protection, ice operations, and other law enforcement missions

Question 16

What are the five authorities of the Sector Commander?

Answer 16

the five authorities of the Sector Commander include, Captain of the Port, Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, Federal On-Scene Coordinator, Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, and Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator

Question 17

Who is the COTP?

Answer 17

the Captain of the Port is the senior Coast Guard official responsible for the enforcement of commercial vessel safety, port safety & security, and marine environmental protection in a given port

Question 18

Who is the FMSC?

Answer 18

the Federal Maritime Security Coordinator is responsible for establishing, convening, and directing the Area Maritime Security Committee and the development and maintenance of the Area Maritime Security Plan

Question 19

Who is the FOSC?

Answer 19

the Federal Maritime Security Coordinator is responsible for establishing, convening, and directing the Area Maritime Security Committee and the development and maintenance of the Area Maritime Security Plan

Question 20

Who is the FOSC?

Answer 20

the Federal On-Scene Coordinator is responsible for coordinating on scene Federal activities during a pollution incident

Question 21

Who is the OCMI?

Answer 21

the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection administers the Coast Guard’s marine safety “field” activities within a marine inspection zone

Question 22

Who is the SMC?

Answer 22

the Search and Rescue (SAR) Mission Coordinator coordinates and manages the overall response to a given SAR incident

Question 23

What is Datum?

Answer 23

Datum is the most probable location of the search object, corrected for movement over time

Question 24

What is the Coast Guard’s Use of Force Policy?

Answer 24

the Coast Guard’s Use of Force Policy is only that force reasonably necessary under the circumstances may be used

Question 25

What do you see?

Answer 25

I see lights. Red over green sailing machine; green over white, trawling at night; red over white, fishing boat in sight; white over red, pilot ahead; and red over red, captain is dead

Question 26

What do you hear?

Answer 26

I hear whistles!

International and in sight:
One short blast, I am altering course to starboard.
Two short blasts, I am altering course to port.
Three short blasts, I am operating astern propulsion.

Low visibility, both International and Inland:
One prolonged blast, power-driven vessel making way.
Two prolonged blasts, powerdriven vessel underway but not making way. One prolonged and three short blasts, the last vessel of a tow, if manned

Question 27

What is a head-on situation?

Answer 27

when two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal courses so as to involve the risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each shall pass on the port side of the other

Question 28

What is a crossing situation?

Answer 28

when two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve the risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way, and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel

Question 29

What are your responsibilities when overtaking?

Answer 29

at sea any vessel overtaking any other shall keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken. Ashore any junior should salute, ask “by your leave’’, and pass to the left of the senior’s shirt sleeve

Question 30

What are your actions to avoid collision?

Answer 30

any action taken to avoid collision shall, if the circumstances for the case admit, be positive, made in ample time and with due regard to the observance of good seamanship

Question 31

What is Spindrift?

Answer 31

the definition of Spindrift is spray blown from a rough sea or surf

Question 32

How long have you been in the Coast Guard?

Answer 32

all me bloomin’ life. My father was King Neptune and my mother was a mermaid. I was born on the crest of a wave and rocked in the cradle of the deep. My eyes r’ stars, my teeth r ‘ spars, my hair is hemp n’ seaweed. And when I spits, I spits tar. I’s tough I is, I am, I are

Question 33

Drill Down

Answer 33

muzzle, front sight, barrel, upper-hand guard, balance, operating rod handle, receiver, stock, heel of the butt, toe of the butt, sling, trigger, and stacking swivel

Question 34

Semper Paratus

Answer 34

From Aztec Shore to Arctic Zone,
To Europe and Far East,
The Flag is carried by our ships,
In time of war and peace;
And never have we struck it yet,
In spite of foemen’s might,
Who cheered our crews and cheered again,
For showing how to fight.

-CHORUS-
We’re always ready for the call,
We place our trust in thee.
Through surf and storm and howling gale,
High shall our purpose be.
“Semper Paratus” is our guide,
Our fame, our glory, too,
To fight to save or fight and die!
Aye! Coast Guard, we are for you.

SURVEYOR and NARCISSUS,
The EAGLE and DISPATCH,
The HUDSON and the TAMPA,
The names are hard to match;
From Barrow’s shores to Paraguay,
Great Lakes or ocean’s wave,
The Coast Guard fought through storms and winds,
To punish or to save. (CHORUS)

Aye, we’ve been “Always Ready”,
To do, to fight or die!
Write glory to the shields we wear,
In letters to the sky.
To sink the foe or save the maimed,
Our mission and our pride,
We’ll carry on ‘til Kingdom come
Ideals for which we’ve died. (CHORUS)