The mission of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is to contribute to the safety and security of our citizens, ports, waterways and coastal regions, as directed by the United States Coast Guard. We will balance our missions in Recreational Boating Safety, Coast Guard Support with Maritime Homeland Security and other challenges that emerge as a result of our growing understanding of changes required in the post-9/11 era.

Description:
Speak Russian? Japanese? Spanish? Multilingual Auxiliarists provide a interpreter service to the active duty Coast Guard whether it is an injured seaman on a ship from another country or other situations that need someone to bridge the language barrier. Some have served for as long as 30 days and traveled to foreign countries at the request of the Coast Guard.

Auxiliarists are there to answer the call. Sept. 11 was no exception. Within hours of the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Auxiliarists across the nation were responding to calls for support from the Coast Guard. They took over jobs that reservists had been doing, freeing them for activation. They helped set up communications operations supporting emergency response to the disaster.

By Dec. 21, more than 14 weeks after 9-11, the Auxiliary had logged more than 144,405 volunteer hours for Operation Noble Eagle. That is 36,595 hours more than the overall total for the whole year 2000 for similar areas or categories of effort. For the week ending Dec. 21 more than 1,500 Auxiliarists logged nearly 15,000 hours in patrols, patrol standby, Commcen/Opcen and other watch standing and administrative and logistics support for an individual average of 10 hours each

On An Average Day the Coast Guard Auxiliary will

Complete 62.5 safety patrols
Complete 6.2 regatta patrols
Perform 10.2 vessel assists
Assist 28 people
Save 1 life
Save $341,290 in property
Participate in 100 operational support missions
Participate in 48.7 administrative support missions
Complete 13.4 recruiting support missions
Educate 369 people on boating safety
Perform 299 vessel safety checks
Attend 70 public affairs functions
US Coast Guard Auxiliary Resources (year 2005)

Operational Vessels 4,758
Aircraft 272
Communications Stations 2,757
Members 30,083
Personal Watercraft Facilities 263
US Coast Guard Auxiliary Mission Hours (year 2005)

Public Affairs 24,939
Safety Patrol Hours 85,505
Air Patrol Hours 6,779
Support of Coast Guard Missions 25,381
Hours of Public Education 22,550
Hours of Member Training 38,654
Auxiliary Qualified Team Members (year 2005)

Boat Crew 5,054
Auxiliary Coxswains 3,854
Air Observers 565
Pilots 266
Navigation Aids Verifiers 3,214
Instructors 6,669
Personal Watercraft Operators 223

History:
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed volunteer component of Team Coast Guard. Founded in 1939 by an Act of Congress as the US Coast Guard Reserves and re-designated the Auxiliary in 1941. The 31,000 volunteer members (men and women) donate thousands of hours in support of Coast Guard missions.
2004 – The year’s hurricane season proved the mostly costly in the U.S. to that date, $42 billion, as 15 tropical storms and 9 hurricanes, 6 of which were major, emerged from the Atlantic Ocean. In total, 9 hurricanes hit the U.S. coastlines and winds extended from Texas to New Jersey. (See www.ndcd.noaa.gov for analysis)

6 – District 7 Auxiliarists conduct security patrols and perform other support missions for international G-8 economic summit, held on Sea Island, Georgia.

8 – New York region Auxiliarists assist in providing security for Republican National Convention held in New York City.

8, 9 – Florida Auxiliarists become victims and rescuers during unprecedented four hurricanes that hit Florida: Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne.

2005 – The most extensive hurricane damage in the U.S. , estimated at $100 billion, resulted from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that hit Florida and the Gulf Coast in August and September. Katrina clocked winds of 125 mph at landfall. Heavy rain, surge waters, and winds created in breaks in levees in New Orleans, putting 80 percent of city underwater on 31 August. Death toll has yet to be finalized; will be in hundreds. Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama suffered severe surge waves of 20-30 feet causing extensive destruction and flooding. A Category 3 Hurricane, Rita hit the Texas-Louisiana border in early September. Hurricane Wilma, also a Category 3, hit Florida in October. Auxiliary units nation-wide responded to disasters.

1. 1991-David E.Weber, 17th Dist. On the night of November 26, 1991, in driving snow and marginal sea conditions, Mr. Weber took his boat,. Quanah P, into Cook Inlet, Alaska, to rescue two survivors from the pleasure boat Amanda B. He found the boat adrift sixteen miles offshore. Several Coast Guardsmen were on board Quanah P. to serve as crew; they managed to pass a towline. The two people on board Amanda B. were transferred, and the Quanah P., with the Amanda B. in tow, took them to the small boat harbor.
   
   
2. 1990 - Jean Colby, 9th District. On May 18, 1990, Mrs. Colby and her husband, Robert, were on patrol when they picked up a distress call regarding two men alongside a capsized boat on Saginaw Bay. Using extreme skill, Mrs. Colby entered the water and approached one 300-pound man who initially was tied to the bow of the boat and unconscious. When Mrs. Colby untied the line, he became alert and tried to climb up her, submerging her. She forced him away from her and was able to get a life ring between them. The man then calmed and she pulled him to the boat. The crew of a Coast Guard boat rescued the other man. (Mr. and Mrs. Colby both received Gold

Contact person: Clark Edwards, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

1 Washington Ave Philadelphia, PA 19147 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.cgaux276.org/

Miscellaneous Information

Are court referrals welcomed?
	No