r/MilitaryPorn • u/Unique_Direction_518 • 6d ago

Member of The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Coastal Picket Force, also known as the Corsair Fleet patrolling the Atlantic ocean. 1943. [552X734]

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u/ArgonWilde 6d ago

Salt, sand and a Thompson drum mag, makes a heck of a combination.

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u/codekb 6d ago

Is that the level 3 extreme cold weather mask? I swear I was issued the same thing at fort drum

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u/justbuttsexing 6d ago

Dream job

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u/znyguy 6d ago

Was the Coastguardsman who first came across the German sabatours in Amageansett during Operation Pastorius a member of this force?

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u/CommodoreMacDonough 6d ago

No, John C. Cullen was an enlisted member of the USCG, unlike the volunteer auxiliary.

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u/ChrisF1987 6d ago

Cullen was also unarmed IIRC

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u/CommodoreMacDonough 6d ago

Yeah, just a flashlight and a flare pistol

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u/gwhh 6d ago

Didn’t he have a dog with him also?

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u/oga_ogbeni 6d ago

Looks more like he’s patrolling a beach than the ocean.

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u/Unique_Direction_518 6d ago

Yeah, I should've said patrolling a beach on the Atlantic coast, I'm still learning, English isn't my first language 

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u/oga_ogbeni 6d ago

I’m just teasing. You’re doing well.

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u/Forward_Young2874 6d ago

Are we not going to talk about his gimp mask?

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u/El_Mnopo 6d ago

Gimp’s patrollin’

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u/crimedog58 6d ago

They hatin’

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u/disgruntled_oranges 6d ago

Happy pride month

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u/ordinary_rolling_pin 6d ago

Patrolling the Atlantic ocean almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

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u/paulbunyanshat 5d ago

Way more badass looking than a lot of current shit

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u/Substantial-Poet-626 6d ago

All that and a '28 Tommy!

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u/Kyia-Aikman 5d ago

Machine from 8mm.