Cmdr - First off, thank you for participating. I'm curious about a couple things. Is there a particular reason why some pictures are posted to Flickr but most are posted to CGVI? Why not post them all to both?

Also, related to Flickr, I notice that all pictures in the photostream are marked as copyright with all rights reserved. Since these pictures were taken by government employees on government time, are they not then in the public domain? Shouldn't they be released under a creative commons Attribution License?

Welcome aboard Commander. I look forward to your insight. It seems we are gathering a very diverse group here. Officers, enlisted, Regular, Reserve, Auxiliary, Civilian, Active, Retired and former members.

But did you notice on the last page, before the application, where it said "REMBER PEARL HARBOR

Must have at least 20 teeth, no glasses, no veneral diseases, no history of syphillis, can't be color blind and at leas an 8th grade education. Some interesting requirements, looking at it by todays standards. Thanks for posting it Sean.

It's Neither. It's because so many people want to join the Coast Guard.

Back in the early 80's when I was recruiting, our office was in a downtown complex with recruiting offices from all the other services. Our monthly quota was normally, not always obviously, but normally as much as the other 4 combined. In other words, if each of them needed 2 guys, we needed 8 or 9.

When I left, in '83 we had a 12 month waiting list and except for the fact that their physicals were only good for a year, we could have had an even longer list.

Busch cars are a lot cheaper to sponsor than Cup cars, but it's still not a great use of the advertising budget. As much as I'd like to see Coast Guard car out there competing against the Army, when you've got a 6 month waiting list in a lot of recruiting offices, it is sort of a waste of money.

Last year there were a couple of Guardians who were involved in stock car racing on the local level and were advertising the CG on their cars. Haven't heard anything this year, but then again, local short tracks in most parts of the country are a long way from reopening.

I think the key was the question Blitzer ask. [So, said Blitzer, "the Coast Guard is doing exercises and they are worried about this?"] In response, ["The Coast Guard is doing exercises," Napolitano replied.].

Not the Coast Guard is worried and doing exercises, just that they are doing exercises. I don't think the Coast Guard is worried about it happening. Concerned? I think so. If they weren't concerned they wouldn't be doing exercises and planning for different scenarios. I'm sure that if if happened tomorrow, the Coast Guard would be ready.

By the way, what kind of English is that opening statement? New Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano got asked today...... GOT asked? I think she WAS asked.

Interesting that they issued a press release when he was charged but not after he was convicted.

I am an old guy. - Not enough sea time to be an old salt.

I meant to mention also that Air Station Traverse City, where I took my entrance physical back in 1975, was even then using the motto Guardians of the Great Lakes. Both CGAS TC and D9 are still using it 34 years later.