[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 30, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H7108]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING THE 138th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES 
                          COAST GUARD ACADEMY

  (Mr. COURTNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 138th 
anniversary of the founding of the Revenue Cutter School of 
Instruction, the predecessor of today's Coast Guard Academy, on July 
31, 1876.
  On that day, the Academy's first training exercise was held aboard 
the two-masted topsail schooner Dobbin, with a class of nine cadets. 
The class boarded the Dobbin in Baltimore, Maryland, for a 2-year 
training mission led by Captain John Henriques. Training aboard the 
ship emphasized seamanship and navigation, as it still does each summer 
when cadets still sail onboard the Coast Guard Barque Eagle.
  Today, the Coast Guard Academy, located in New London, Connecticut, 
since 1910, is the home to a corps of nearly 1,000 cadets, 200 of whom 
graduate each year.
  The Coast Guard Academy produces almost half of the service's corps 
of commissioned officers and has graduated distinguished leaders such 
as Thad Allen, Bob Papp, and the present commandant of the Coast Guard, 
Admiral Paul Zukunft, who lead our Coast Guard and serve the Nation. 
Today, it is led by the first woman officer to lead a United States 
military academy, Admiral Sandra Stosz.
  As a cochair of the Congressional Coast Guard Caucus and the 
representative of Connecticut's Second District, home to the Coast 
Guard Academy, I am honored to recognize its distinguished beginnings 
and the longstanding traditions of leadership and excellence which 
continue to serve our country.

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