The predecessor to the United States Coast Guard was the Revenue Cutter Service. It was established in 1790 by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Its primary mission was to crack down on piracy and, while at sea doing that, to help vessels in distress. After the U. S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, the U. S. placed a tariff on harvested seals in order to help pay the $7 million cost of acquiring "Seward's Folly." Gold had not yet been discovered in Alaska. Therefore, the tax on the seal harvest was the greatest money maker at the time. Two Revenue Cutter Service ships bore the name of Treasury Secretary Richard Rush (1825 - 1829). The first one was tasked with catching seal poachers. With the Rush on the lookout, poachers would often exclaim, "Let's get there before the Rush!"

The Coast Guard is important to us because when boaters or rafters are stuck out in the middle of no where or in distress the Coast Guard are the ones that go out an save people. While the Navy, Marines, Army, and Air Force are unable to do so.

Five reasons that the atmosphere are important are that the atmosphere helps protect us from the sun, provides the oxygen we need, helps to keep all the elements we need to survive in the air close to the earth, it helps bounce harmful rays away from the planet, protects us from space debris.

I grew up in a military neighborhood, and was not aware of anyone hating the coast guard. I would not imagine this is a widely held hatred. If there are people that do, like any other emotion, everyone is going to have their own reasons. It is probably better to discuss it with the person individually.

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Old Coast Guard Station Museum was created in 1903.

They guard the coast.

The origins of the Coast Guard go back to Alexander Hamilton recommending to Congress to create an agency to protect the fledgling United States' maritime commerce from the British. American commercial vessels were heavily preyed upon by pirates and British privateers. In 1790, Congress authorized the creation of the Revenue Cutter Service and the building of about a dozen cutters. in 1848, local humanitarian effects and other private interests came together into a government agency called the United States Life Saving Service. This agency set up life saving stations throughout the country that utilized small boats and lyle guns to rescue shipwreck victims. In 1915, these two agencies were combined to create the modern day Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard was just a pirvate thing along time ago to save people when ships wrecked in storms. they used row boats and men with oars. The government decided to take over this and now we have the U.S. Coast Guard.

A coastline is important because it acts like a barrier to where we live and the sea starts and finishes. Coastal Defence protects our chalk cliffs because some cliffs aren't stable if they have roads on top of them. Also like on Kings gate Bay (edge of Thanet) has grass at the bottom of the cliffs to keep them stable. :)

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