U.S. Coast Guard Organizational History
General Overviews
- Coast Guard: "Our History of Reorganization"; a Power-Point Presentation historical overview, 2008.
- Major Policy Changes/Historical Events that Influenced the Missions of the Coast Guard and its Predecessor Services."
- "Transfer of the Coast Guard to the Navy": Congressional Hearings, 66th Congress, May, 1920 (courtesy of Google Books)
- 1948 Study of U.S. Coast Guard by Ebasco Services, Inc., "A Summary" of the official report dated 21 January 1948.
- 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.
- Rear Admiral Thomas F. Atkin's Oral History: RADM Atkin was the first operational commander of the Deployable Operations Group.
- "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.
Official Publications
Misc
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Last Modified 1/26/2012