U.S. Coast Guard
Organizational & Administrative History
General Overviews
- "Our History of Reorganization"; a Power-Point historical overview, 2008.
- Economy and Efficiency in the Government Service: Message of the President of the United States Transmitting Reports of the Commission on Economy and Efficiency: Revenue-Cutter Service, Document No. 670 (Washington, DC: USGPO, 4 April 1912). The document from President William Howard Taft regarding the Revenue Cutter Service that led directly to the creation of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915.
- "Functions, Duties, and Organization of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service," as printed in the service's Fiscal Year 1913 Annual Report, pp. 67-83. This report gives a detailed overview of the service's history up until 1913, its organizational structure, its missions or "duties", a complete breakdown of the RCS's personnel, and a detailed description of each cutter that was in commission at the time of the report.
- General Order No. 1: the official order that created the Coast Guard on 28 January 1915
- United States Coast Guard 1919: An official illustrated publication that provides an overview of the Coast Guard in 1919.
- "Transfer of the Coast Guard to the Navy": Congressional Hearings, 66th Congress, May, 1920 (courtesy of Google Books)
- Study of U.S. Coast Guard by Ebasco Services, Inc., "A Summary" of the official report dated 21 January 1948.
- "New Office and New Divisions Created by Re-organization" & "Major Headquarters Organization Changes," as published in Commandant's Bulletin, 41-80 (1980), p. 5.
- Realignment 1987: The New Structure and How We Got There," a Commandant's Bulletin article (#13-87, 26 June 1987) on the development of a new support and management functions by RADM Marshall E. Gilbert, then-Chief, Coast Guard Office of Research and Development.
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"Establishing a New Normalcy": Activities Baltimore, Before and After 11 September 2001; The Recollections of Captain Roger B. Peoples, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.) Commanding Officer, Activities Baltimore. An important oral history that explained the introduction and subsequent development of the "Sector" organization.
Predecessor Agencies
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Organization and Methods of the United States Life-Saving Service, (a paper "read before the Committee on Life-Saving Systems and Devices, International Marine Conference, November 22, 1889" by Sumner I. Kimball, General Superintendent of the Service, and published on 5 January 1894 "for the information of officers and employees of the Service and others interested." Washington: GPO, 1894).
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The United States Lighthouse Service: 1915. This report report gives an overview of the service's history up until 1915, its organizational structure, its missions or "duties", budget, a breakdown of the Lighthouse Service's personnel, and a description of the equipment and stations used by the service.
DHS Formation
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Admiral Thad Allen's 2008 speech to the DHS Fellows Program in which he discusses the formation and early history of DHS.
- Rear Admiral Thomas F. Atkin's Oral History: RADM Atkin was the first operational commander of the Deployable Operations Group.
Deployable Assets
- Rear Admiral Thomas F. Atkin's Oral History: RADM Atkin was the first operational commander of the Deployable Operations Group.
Miscellaneous
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