@SkrewzLoose That's cool! There's a few unique CG things like that that are always surprising when you find one that was involved in it. Especially the Astan and Iraq groups
@Dame, that's probably a pretty good guess. The Coast Guard has never really liked (especially lately) the more militaristic side of the house. The anti-piracy and such operations are not widely talked about. It happens, but the CG public affairs people would much rather talk about the 600 bales of cocaine we fished out of the water when the Go Fast threw it overboard. They like talking about Search and Rescue. Not, "Hey! We have snipers!" Even with our boarding teams on rec vessels, its "safety checks" and the law allows us to basically be pirates and board whomever we want, under the reasoning of Safety. But the security zones, escorts, and the ATFP, and such aren't as talked about. Personally, Ive never seen an advertisement or common news source article talking about us guarding GITMO.
@Dame hits a lot of good points about Papp, hes a very nice guy, from my experiences with him, however budget cuts and such have slowly chopped away at a lot of the CG. ADM Z seems to be better, but during all hands with him it comes a cross more as a business of customer service rather than a branch of the Armed Forces.