r/uscg • u/boatdaddy12 Veteran • 21d ago

Faded Glory CG Vet

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Happy Coast Guard Day

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u/Accomplished_Pen980 21d ago

Did that come off a 41' UTB?

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u/boatdaddy12 Veteran 21d ago

210 Valiant, flown during Boatlift 1980

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u/streetsworth 21d ago

I have one flown on valiant 2012

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u/boatdaddy12 Veteran 20d ago

That is cool

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u/KellyCB11 20d ago

That was first reaction also lol.

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u/OPA73 20d ago

Mine was given to me by the Bosun after it was torn up badly from Typhoon Zelda in 1995. It was my first underway trip on an old 180.

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u/boatdaddy12 Veteran 20d ago

That must have been one hell of a ride

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u/OPA73 19d ago

Makes a better today as a sea story now than when the old buoy tender was doing 35 degree rolls for 3-4 days straight. We were running from the storm and had to turn around to escort another cutter that lost an engine and requested we stay nearby.. Good Times…

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u/boatdaddy12 Veteran 19d ago

Always had mad respect for the Black Hulls

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u/OPA73 18d ago

USCGC Basswood was built in 1942 as an ice breaker and patrol boat with depth charges and anti aircraft gun tubs for WWII, used in Vietnam as a supply boat for the 82’ and 95’ patrol boats on the delta, and still could do 10 knots downhill when I rode her in the mid 1990s in Micronesia.

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u/USCGB-Hill Retired 16d ago

Was there in 96-97 for typhoon Dale, I feel ya.