1) The USCG has had the highest casualty percentage rate of all services in all of the wars up to Vietnam.

2) It was Coasties that invented the VD Innoculation Badge.

3) Popeye was a Coastie.

4)The USCG has always been highly successful in wartime because we never bothered to read and learn all of those Navy Tactical Manuals, so we always do what the enemy is not expecting.

5) The USCG is the 9th largest fleet in the world with the 3rd largest seagoing Air Force.