Coast Guard Medal Groupings in your Collection?

[TheMariner]

I have acquired a number of them over the years I am always on the hunt! Maybe I will dig them out and post at some point! Some great stuff in this thread!

[jmpmstr]

Heres one I missed unattributed

[jmpmstr]

One more from our dear friend Garth RIP

[TheCrustyBosun]

Both of my grandfathers served in the USCG during WWII. My father’s dad served in the Pacific aboard a CG manned US Army ocean going tug. They moved fuel barges all over.
 

My mother’s dad served aboard USCGC Bonham (125’) and the USCGC Cyane (165’) and both were stationed in Alaska. His name was Myron “Mike” C. Hoyer and he was a BM2. The ribbons shown below are the ones he wore on his blues when he married my grandmother in 1944. I’m sure he ended up with a few more, but he didn’t keep much of his stuff. Also shown is a CG ensign that he got/took from CGC Bonham.  I framed it 25 years ago myself. 

[PaulR]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful family group!!  Are there any other CG medal groups out there?

[BeansEnHay]

No medals in this group, but I was  able to attribute the items from the named card that came with it, and a newspaper article found online. Richard J. Morris was a native of Springfield, Mass. born in 1938. He joined the Coast Guard in 1956 participating in countless rescues in the Northeast and East Coast in driving wind and churning seas. His shipmates remembered Morris being the only one who never got seasick even in the worst conditions.

 

Sometime prior to 1968 he went to Vietnam and spent his tour assisting the Navy repelling and blocking  enemy shipping.  He also assisted the Secret Service guard the home of George Bush in the wake of the assasination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981.  He sailed to every continent and served on many Cutters including the Acushnet, the polar icebreaker Eastwind and the buoy tender Spar.

 

Morris served 26 years retiring as a Master Chief. After retirement he worked at the Portsmouth Naval shipyard in Kittery, Maine. He had a 10 foot anchor  as a lawn ornament in front of his home in New Hampshire.  He was married with 2 kids.

the card indicates Morris was a Senior Chief Boatswain Mate by 1972.
in the last photo, Morris is the 1st Class Petty Officer on the left.
 

 

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