Lighthouses, Cutters and Lifeboat Stations: Life and Times of Rodger D. Dewey, Bmcm 28 Years in the United States Coast Guard

By S. Matthew Grayson

The United States Coast Guard has a saying: You have to go out; you dont have to come back. I am still looking for the person who came up with that saying (Rodger D. Dewey, retired master chief boatswains mate E-9).

Follow the twenty-eight years of memories of a seventeen-year-old young man from Denver, Colorado, who joined the United States Coast Guard in 1948 and made the United States Coast Guard his life. Follow the training, lessons learned, funny stories, and a true love of being a shallow-water sailor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524570194

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LIGHTHOUSES, CUTTERS AND LIFEBOAT STATIONS:

LIFE AND TIMES OF RODGER D. DEWEY, BMCM

28 YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD

S. Matthew Grayson

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Copyright © 2016 by S. Matthew Grayson. 748216

ISBN:   Softcover     978-1-5245-7018-7

             Hardcover   978-1-5245-7017-0

             EBook           978-1-5245-7019-4

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Rev. date: 01/31/2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.

By luck and by God, do what you can while you are there.

It was a hell of a wall of water.

Just build a fence high enough that Dewey can’t see out of so that he won’t go out and get into trouble.

It’s better to live your life joyfully than living in misery.

Do not look at the job as a seaman, but look at the job as a chief. Look at the guy walking around, holding the cup of coffee, and be happy about your job. You can have their job.

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The United States Coast Guard has a saying You have to go out, you don’t have to come back, I am still looking for the person who came up with that saying.

Rodger D. Dewey retired Master Chief Boatswain’s Mate E-9

Follow the 28 years of memories of a 17 year old, young man from Denver, Colorado who joined the United States Coast Guard, in 1948, and made the United States Coast Guard his life. Follow the training, lessons learned, funny stories, and a true love of being a, Shallow Water Sailor.

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Thank you to those who started me thinking of the many years in the United States Coast Guard and how to put it all into words. As the USCG was the main part of my life, there is not a day that goes by that I do not think of my time in the USCG. They provided me and my family with a wonderful life. I had a lot