"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message thlink.net...

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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The Coast Guard also maintains that they were present as an armed force
in the pre-revolutionary times before the Army and the Navy.


Hmmm.... I don't see how, the USCG wasn't formed until sometime in the
1920s, I believe.

According to the USGS propaganda, they trace back to the "revenue marine" and
predates the Navy by 8 years. The "Coast Guard" name came in 1915 from the
consolidation of the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life Saving Service.