225th Birthday

Aug 4, 2015 — Comic #29

Anniversary infographic: “The Coast Guard celebrates 225 years! What have we been up to since 1790?” Items include being confused for mailmen, painting red and blue stripes on everything, a caped vigilante “getting revenge on Aaron Burr,” changing our name a bunch of times (with joke names like “Ninja Awesome Fleet” crossed out), and changing our department a bunch of times. It ends with a helicopter hoisting a chain of people: “Oh, and literally saving over a million lives.”

Happy 225th birthday to the U.S. Coast Guard! That may seem like a long time, but it’s only about 3 times the age of our oldest serving cutter…

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The Coast Guard celebrates 225 years! What have we been up to since 1790? / Being confused for mailmen / …Seriously? / Painting red and blue stripes on everything / Getting revenge on Aaron Burr / A System of Revenue Cutters / The Revenue-Marine / The Revenue Cutter Service / Ninja Awesome Fleet / U.S. Coast Guard / Changing our name a bunch of times / Department of the Treasury / Department of War / Coast Justice League / Department of Transportation / Department of Homeland Security / Changing our department a bunch of times / Oh, and literally saving over a million lives

coast guard day anniversary history infographic

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