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1. Steven Huffstutler

   

   11 posts
   
   8/4/2013 3:08 PM

   August 4th is Coast Guard Day. The service celebrates its 223rd birthday today. Semper Paratus and Bravo Zulu!
   
   http://www.military.com/coast-guard-birthday
   
   
   Regards,
   Steve Huffstutler, CGCS, BMC, USCG (Ret)

   
   
   
   
2. Keith Lamb

   

   3 posts
   
   8/4/2013 5:08 PM

   Funny, you look much younger.
   
   Happy Birthday USCG - Semper Paratus
   
   Signed, son of former USCG member.

   
   
   
   
3. Kenneth Ingram

   

   18 posts
   
   8/5/2013 6:08 AM

   I just re-read Arnold Palmer's biography A Golfers Life. He spent a lot of time writing about his time in the Coast Guard so you know it meant a lot to him. Happy Birthday. Kenneth Ingram, UMD.

   
   
   
   
4. Larry Allan

   

   0 posts
   
   8/5/2013 8:08 AM

   The extent of what I know about what people on the water do...but happy birthday
   
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5. Sandy Clark

   

   0 posts
   
   8/5/2013 9:08 AM

   Happy Coast Guard day to you Steve, my fellow Coastie! You actually did real active duty time though, I was just a reservist. I think a career ranks a little higher on the thank you for your service scale than 6 months of active duty and 5.5 years of meetings and summer camps!

   
   
   
   
6. Steven Huffstutler

   

   11 posts
   
   8/5/2013 4:08 PM

   Hey Sandy. Regardless of the branch or the time in service, if you served honorably then I honor your service and your commitment. The thing that I liked most about being in the Coast Guard was being one of the people who, when things looked the worst for someone and no one else would come, we would go regardless of the situation. Our mottos back then were "You gotta go out, you don't gotta come back" and " Can't never did a damn thing, try always did".
   
   Semper Paratus
   
   Steve
   
   
   By the way, Lar, McHale was in the Navy.

   
   
   
   
7. Sandy Clark

   

   0 posts
   
   8/6/2013 9:08 AM

   I do regret my decision to not stay in the reserves when my 6 years were completed. That was definitely a decision of someone 24 years old not thinking long=term!