COAST GUARD DAY IS AUGUST FOURTH
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August 4th is celebrated as Coast Guard Day to honor the establishment of the Revenue Cutter Service, forebear of today's Coast Guard. Congress, guided by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790, authorized the building of a fleet of ten cutters, whose responsibility would be enforcement of the first tariff laws enacted by Congress under the Constitution.

The Coast Guard has been continuously at sea since its inception, although the name Coast Guard didn't come about until 1915 when the Revenue Cutter Service was merged with the Lifesaving Service. The Lighthouse Service joined the Coast Guard in 1939, followed in 1946 by the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection. Finally, after 177 years in the Treasury Department, the Coast Guard was transferred to the newly formed Department of Transportation in 1967.

Coast Guard Day is primarily an internal activity for active duty Coast Guard personnel, civilian members, reservists, retirees, auxiliarists, and dependents, but it does have a significant share of interest outside the Service.

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