Coast Guard Journal

I added a link on the sidebar for the Coast Guard Journal. It was stood up by the Coast Guard in February this year and has several interesting first hand stories of Coasties throughout the fleet, but mostly focusing on the CGC Bertholf.

I'm curious as to whether the ratio of Bertholf posts as opposed to other units is due to motivation by HQ, motivation from the command of the Bertholf, or just the crew taking its own initiative to inform the rest of the service and the public about what the Coast Guard's newest cutter is like.

Whatever the case may be, it would be nice to see more posts (despite being almost six months old, the post count is still in the thirties) and to see more firsthand accounts of what life is like for a Coastie. It's great that the Coast Guard is using the internet to spread deckplate level information to the public but there's always room for improvement.