EPME Flashcards
5 services that formed CG
Revenue Cutter Service, Lighthouse Service, Steamboat Inspection Service, Bureau of Navigation, Lifesaving Service - RLSBL
What year was CG formally created?
1915
Cutters over 180 belong to:
AREA
Cutters under 180 feet belong to:
Districts
How many units report directly to HQ?
35
____ Admirals head up districts
Rear Admirals - 2 star
____ Admirals lead Atlantic & Pacific Area
Vice Admirals - 3 star
What year was Quasi-War with France?
1798-1799
In Quasi-War, cutters captured __ prizes and assisted in capture of ___ others.
18 prizes, 2 others
Quasi-War - Cutter Pickering captured ___ prizes
10
War of 1812 with England - Cutter ______ captured the first prize of war
Jefferson
War of 1812 - battle between Cutter _____ and British frigate ______
Cutter Surveyor & British Narcissis - (Surveyor was captured)
War of 1812 - Cutter Eagle vs British brig _____
Dispatch
FIrst time steamboats were used in war?
Mexican American War
Civil War - What cutter fired first shot of civil war?
Harriet Lane
Spanish American War - Cutter _____ rescued the USS ______ after the massacre of Ensign Bagley.
USS Winslow
WWI - CG transferred to the Navy in ____
1917
WWI - How many cutters deployed to Gibraltar?
6
WWI - Cutter _____ was torpedoed by a German Submarine and all crew killed.
Cutter Tampa. 115 crew, 111 CG
WWII - Cutter _______ took the Norwegian trawler Boskoe into protective custody and captured 3 German radiomen trying to setup weather stations in Greenland
Northland
WWII - CG sank ___ German submarines. CG aircraft sank 1.
11 subs
WWII - using depth charges, Cutter _____ forced the surfacing of a German sub
Icarus
WWII - in 1943 Cutter ______ sank a submarine by ramming it
Campbell
WWII - September 27, ____ Douglas Munro rescued Marines near Matanikau River
Sep 27, 1942
WWII - CG patrol boats patrolled the __ fathom curve
50 fathom curve
WWII - 1 Medal of Honor, __ Navy Cross, __ Distinguished Service Cross
6 Navy Cross, 1 Distinguished Service Cross
VIetnam - How many 82’ cutters were deployed for Operation Market Time?
26
Desert Storm - LEDET personnel onboard USS ______ assisted in clearing 11 Iraqi oil platforms and took 23 prisoners
USS Nicholas
First time Navy ships were employed jointly under CG command?
Operation Noble Eagle, 2001
Largest number of migrants rescued from a single vessel was CGC ______ in 1995
CGC Dauntless, 578 migrants
What cutters were a part of the largest high-seas drift-net fisheries seizure?
Boutwell, Jarvis & Polar Sea
How many cutters did Alexander Hamilton start with in 1790?
10
What cutter made the first narcotics seizure in 1890?
USRC Wolcott, seized opium on the George E. Starr
In 2001, CG seized the largest maritime seizure of _____ on the Belizean F/V Svesda Maru
cocaine
What is the only CG manned lightstation in the US?
Boston Harbor
Who served 38 years at Matinicus Rock and White Head Light Stations Maine?
Abbie Burgess
Who served 39 years at Lime Rock Lighthouse? How many lives saved?
Ida Lewis, 18 lives
Who served at Cape Elizabeth Light and probably only man to get Medal of Honor and Gold Lifesaving Medal?
Marcus Hanna
Coast Guard Auxiliary was created in 19__?
1939
Title __ of US Code cites that the CG is a military service
14
Coast Guard Reserve was established in 19__?
1941
Public law ___ (#) established the Women’s Reserve as a branch of the CG (SPARs)
773
CG Auxiliary is organized into how many units?
4 - Flotilla, Division, District Regions, National
Overall supervision of CG Auxiliary is responsibility of who?
Assistant Commandant for Operations