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   > > Back in the time he is referring to, the Coast Guard also used to escort   
   > > marine traffic beyond the US Coast.  As Joe pointed out, that changed   
   > > sometime during or after WWII and may have only been a war-time thing.   
   > > Early in that war, we lost some Coast Guard vessels in the North Atlantic   
   > > to enemy fire (U-boats, I think).   
      
   > Something like this happened in Canada, too -- the Navy did the full   
   escorting   
   > of suypply vessels, but our domestic coat guard expanded their purviewfarther   
   > way from land than they'd normally be -- more as an early waerning system   
   than   
   > s an actual fighting unit.  I don't recall reading of any that were sunk --    
   j   
   > t RCNavy ships, by, likewise, uboats.   
      
   I expanded my knowledge of the US Coast Guard, and also the Canadian armed   
   forces, while touring the Great Lakes.  I have forgotten much (I need to go   
   back and read my notes), but that is where I learned that our Coast Guard   
   was not always restricted to domestic operations in the past.  There are a   
   few memorials/historical markers dedicated to Coast Guard units lost during   
   the early days of WWII on the lakes.   
      
   > War just plain sucks, even when necessary (as a few were)   
      
   Yes indeed it does.  Most serious conflict, whether it be large wars or   
   small, interpersonal conflicts, plain suck.   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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