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CommentsBack on June 23, 1939, Congress chartered the Coast Guard Auxiliary, authorizing the Coast Guard to use civilian volunteers to promote boating safety on the nation’s waterways.
Seventy years later, 30,000 people nationwide assist in guarding harbors and provide boating education and free vessel safety checks to recreational boaters.
In the past decade, according to a news release, members nationwide have:
• Saved 5,083 lives.
• Assisted 141,980 people.
• Saved $1.46 million in property.
• Taught boating safety to 1,678,946 people.
• Conducted 1,170,535 vessel safety checks.
• Spent 4,297,312 hours on safety patrols.
There are three auxiliary units in the South Sound and their Web sites:
Flotilla 35-The Narrows, a1300305.uscgaux.info; Flotilla 33-Tacoma, uscgaux33.org; and Flotilla 38-Olympia, a1300308.uscgaux.info.
The News Tribune
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