[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13685-13686]
[From the U.S. 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 
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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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