How Coast Guard Boot Camp Turns Recruits Into Coasties

As a soldier I worked with the coast guards tactical law enforcement team and MSRT while on deployment and they were honestly super badass. Learned a lot from them

As a 1970 s Coastie (MK2) I always resent when we are forgotten. People name Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines but always forget the Coast Guard. Not the people of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina of us someone said "if there are Angels on earth they wear the uniform of the United States Coast Guard" can't improve on that.

I’ve been in the Army a little over 14 years, and I’ve met several coasties during that time period . They all seem to pretty solid ppl. You gotta have tough skin to be in the CG, cause all the other branches let you have it lol..but it’s outta brotherly love . And I agree..someone dropped the ball on the “guardians” thing

The thing I love about the CG the most is you get to choose what you want to do, and other branches have so many people that they do one very specific thing and that’s it, I’m an Aviation Maintenance Technician, and I work on everything on the MH-60, we go to schools to learn with other branches and they are baffled that we work on every part not just one specific thing. Not only do I work on them but I fly in them and go on rescue cases as well, so give us all the shit you want but y’all have 20 men to do the same job as one coastie 😂 happy coast guard day

Training hard right now to join. It's my calling, I am 23 and getting in the best shape of my life I love to run, I love to lift and I love to swim. I saw the affects of Hurricane Katrina personally as a kid. I am testing far above the requirements right now. still studying though. And am about to dedicate the next three months of my life to train specifically for it. I'm going for it.

That breathe of hesitation and exhale of saying Guardians😂

Coasties are tougher than airmen , pass it on.

Served in the Coast Guard in the early 2000s. Was stationed in NOLA, New Orleans, La.....One of the best experiences of my life. Hooorraaahhhh~~! Would absolutely do it all over again.... Much respect to those still serving!

A former coworker of mine used to be in USCG. He did maritime law enforcement and was a medic on a helicopter. A real badass and an awesome dude. He joked that the CG motto "Semper Paratus" was really "Semper Forgotus" or "Simply Forgot Us" since almost nobody mentions them in the same breath as the other service branches, lol! Anyhow, I saw his photo album full of cool stuff he did (boarding ships for inspections, drug busts, medical stuff, etc.).

LOL...thanks for the trip down memory lane! 😎Back in the "day", (1976), there were actually two CG boot camps...one in Cape May, NJ and one in Alameda, CA, where I went (Golf 108 and Oscar company, which was the band and the honor guard). I can remember arriving there, a cocky, fresh-faced, probably-too-full-of-myself "joe jockstrap", fresh out of high school. Didn't take long for me (as well as most of the other recruits) to find ourselves thinking, "OMG! WHAT have we done!". Even Marines that we would talk to said that CG boot camp was second only to Marine boot camp in difficulty...perhaps not physically, but certainly pyschologicially. We heard all kinds of horror stories about how if you screwed the pooch REALLY bad, you might end up at "TI"...Treausre Island. During boot, we lost one recruit to a ruptured spleen and another to a severely fractured ankle...the latter occurred after our lovely DI, Mr. Gray, broke open a roll of pennies over an open (and FULL) dumpster, telling us, "No one sleeps until ALL the pennies are found!" To ensure no one snuck in any extra pennies, we did the search in our t-shirts and skivvies...😆Right across from boot base was a bread factory and we'd be out on the grinder doing PT at o-dark-thirty. The factory would fire up, the smell of fresh-baked bread would drift across te bay and even the roughest, toughest lads were thinking of home and perhaps mumbling, "Mommmmmmmyyyy" under their breath. But...we made it...I went in a boy and came out a man. I learned discipline, self-respect, honest work ethic and how to effectively work as a team. Went to Alexandria, VA (just outside DC) for 18 months, the USCG Presidential Ceremonial Honor Guard, as Class 'A' engineering school was booked up for a bit and I didn't want to "strike" (do 'on the job training') at a station. Later, four months of MK (engineering, "snipe" or MK school) in Yorktown, VA. They gave me 10 days travel time from VA to the OR coast, Sta Tillamook Bay...a friend and I drove it in just under three days. Balance of time was rockin' and rollin' on a 44' motor lifeboat (since replaced by the newer 47' MLBs) and one of the last working 36' double-enders. Boarding Officer School and EMT training. At the end of four years, did my "dream sheet" for possible reenlistment; was considering being a career Coastie. Best they could do was a 378' cutter in the Gulf of Alaska...I would have been lost on a cutter after running small boats and my high school sweetheart and I got married my last year in and we didn't want to be apart. Would I recommend the Coast Guard to a high schooler? Oh, you betcha! I have and always will...the sign over our boat house said it best: "You have to go out...but that doesn't always mean you'll be coming back". Semper Paratus...former MK3, 1976-1980.

When I was in the US Navy 1964-1968, the old salts used to say that to qualify for the US Coast guard you had to be 6 ft. tall. Then if your boat capsized you could wade to shore.

We trained on the Sig P229 in Boot in 2009. Not sure if it was mandatory to graduate, but I earned my expert pistol ribbon. Will never forget my time with Bravo 182. Semper Paratus!

The United States Coast Guard ( U. S. Department of Homeland Security, 04 August 1790 AD) is a Branch of the Armed Forces and a Military Service at all times, In Accordance With ( IAW) Titles 10 and 14, United States Code. Semper Paratus, Coasties, from this Prior Service USMC and US Army Veteran!!🇺🇸🇺🇲🦅🌎⚓😈🐕🪖💣💥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇲

My company India-198 is in this video!!!! So proud to call myself a Coastie and be a part of these incredibly and diversely talented group of men and women. Semper P!

Ay much respect to the men and women of the Coast Guard! They signed up to serve there country and be a part of something bigger than themselves. Pretty cool 😎

Just graduated yesterday. I’m prior Air Force… CG boot sucks. It’s so hard

I joined the Coast Guard in 1996 right out of high school, I got out in 2003 and my last unit was TACLET SOUTH, from there became a cop in Texas and now l'm a security contractor overseas for the last 12 years. Tango 149.

Omg this is exactly what I was looking for. I've been recovering from a distal radias fracture on my wrist and been deciding between the different branches. Now that I'm physically able again I'm working on joining the coast guard!

Are those toy rifles that they’re drilling with? 😂😂😂😂😂 Too funny!!!

Another great video , it's good to see the Coast Gard are geting some RESPECT often not givin to them.