You said you were in the Coast Guard in the 70's right? How did this happen? The only Coast Guardsman to die between 1928 and 1990 was Petty Officer Edgar Culbertson, who drowned while assisting the Duluth Police Department in a rescue mission to rescue three boys who were stuck on a pier in Lake Superior during a severe thunderstorm on April 30, 1967.
Current USCG issue is an M4 carbine or a MK18 CQBR, no SMGs to be found, as they too are inferior systems.Wrong dog breath. In my youth we used bow & arrows and rode buffalo into battle.
Seriously the weapons of my youth were WW2 surplus or lever actions & revolvers. I never handled a semi-auto until I joined the military and what the Coast Guard issued back in the mid-70s for boarding operations were junk. ......REDACTED.......I hear the CG is using SMGs for boarding now. A vast improvement I am sure.
I actually have an SKS promag laying around that I am putting into the bocephus boxes, lol.
Coast Guard! Isn’t that the glorified border patrol. They get the rest of the military’s hand me downs.Wrong dog breath. In my youth we used bow & arrows and rode buffalo into battle.
Seriously the weapons of my youth were WW2 surplus or lever actions & revolvers. I never handled a semi-auto until I joined the military and what the Coast Guard issued back in the mid-70s for boarding operations were junk. Even the 1911s were WW2 leftovers that rattled when you shook them. At least they always worked. The shotguns were Mossberg if I remember correctly and they were reliable too. The M-16s everyone I knew hated. I hear the CG is using SMGs for boarding now. A vast improvement I am sure.
Pretty much. Or at least it was when I was in. Luckily the drug smugglers were nowhere near as dangerous as they are now. Most times we stopped a boat with a bunch of drugs, they were busy trying to toss the drugs instead of fighting. Only one time did one fight and of course he killed one and wounded two before being shot. I was below deck and did not see what happened but was told my friend got off one shot before his rifle jammed. Might have been a bad mag or the rifle itself, I was never told. Only thing I know for sure is that a better rifle and my friend might still be alive.
That is not correct as some even died in WW2 Normady landings, and in Vietnam. I also know my friend was killed off HI when we stopped a ship smuggling drugs. I just looked, 1918 died in WW2.
