It is a great outfit. I still regret being unable to continue my career as planned. It is such a small outfit I literally always met somebody I had previously served with. Even 24 years later, in an Arizona swimming pool, the senior C.G. rescue swimmer, another former coastie and myself were connected with mutual friends. Try telling someone you loaned money to the Coast Guard Acadamy commandant on a friday night when his car ran out of gas ( teaching a local college boating sfety course) and you both pushed it into a station in full dress uniforms ( a full captain and a E2 <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> )