21st Century Complete Guide to the U.S. Coast Guard: Current Events, News, Homeland Security, Immigration, Vessels, Aircraft, Lighthouses, Polar Icebreaking, History, At War, and Safety [CD-ROM]

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Book Description

Publication Date: February 18, 2002

This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the complete story of the U.S Coast Guard, covering both the present and past operations of the USCG and its predecessor services, featuring thousands of pages of USCG history plus complete coverage of current USCG operations. Major current USCG official documents are reproduced as well as many historic documents. The thousands of pages of historical material include vessel histories for active and retired USCG ships with photographs. The U.S. Coast Guard: A Historical Overview highlights the historic coverage followed by a wealth of historic subject articles.

Featured are USCG Cutter and Boat datasheet descriptions include Aid-to-Navigation Boats, Coastal Buoy Tenders, Coastal Patrol Boats, Deployable Pursuit Boats, High Endurance Cutters, Icebreaking Tugs, Inland Buoy Tenders, Inland Construction Tenders, Inland Icebreakers, Medium Endurance Cutters (featuring the Alex Haley), Motor Lifeboats, Patrol Boats (82 to 110 feet), River Buoy Tenders, Small Boats (16 to 47 feet, including utility boats), Polar Class Icebreakers, Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats, Seagoing Buoy Tenders, Small Harbor Tugs, the Training Barque Eagle, Transportable Port Security Boats, and Utility Boats, each accompanied by color photography. Special coverage is included on the Polar Sea and Polar Star icebreakers and the Healy, the new polar research icebreaking vessel. USCG Aircraft datasheet descriptions of airplanes and helicopters include the HC-130 Hercules, HH-60 Jayhawk, HH-65 Dolphin, and HU-25 Guardian, each accompanied by color photography. Color Photographic coverage of Sail Boston 2000 highlights the USCG participation. Images of Line Art Drawings of Vessels, Insignias, Logos, Ratings and Ranks are reproduced. The full range of USCG roles and responsibilities are covered: Anti-Drug Smuggling efforts, Environmental Protection, Fisheries Conservation and Enforcement, Homeland Security, Icebreaking and Polar Services, Law Enforcement, Life-Saving Services, Living Marine Resources, Search and Rescue (SAR). This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for military or ship enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 23533 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Management; 1 edition (February 18, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 1931828202
• ISBN-13: 978-1931828208
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,008,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money, use the website instead, June 29, 2003

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Harry Mueller (NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 21st Century Complete Guide to the U.S. Coast Guard: Current Events, News, Homeland Security, Immigration, Vessels, Aircraft, Lighthouses, Polar Icebreaking, History, At War, and Safety (CD-ROM)

Reading the description this sounded like a wonderful reference. Unfortunately once I started delving into it I found that this publication was basically a download of the Coast Guard website...that had been turned into a PDF file. It was full of missing images, extremely poor page layout, broken links, and some of the information was years out of date. It even included web pages saying that the requested pages were not available. Hardly a complete guide and definitely not a useful reference.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless Waste of Money, August 2, 2003

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This review is from: 21st Century Complete Guide to the U.S. Coast Guard: Current Events, News, Homeland Security, Immigration, Vessels, Aircraft, Lighthouses, Polar Icebreaking, History, At War, and Safety (CD-ROM)

This "book" is nothing more than a CD-ROM of U.S. Coast Guard website information - - much of it with missing images and informaton. Everything in this CD is publicly available on the Coast Guard website and it is much easier to access and read via the website than it is here. This CD is utterly and completely worthless in my view given that the information is free and available [on a website].

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 21st century complete guide to the U.S. Coast Guard, March 6, 2005

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Renee J. Christ "straycat" (california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 21st Century Complete Guide to the U.S. Coast Guard: Current Events, News, Homeland Security, Immigration, Vessels, Aircraft, Lighthouses, Polar Icebreaking, History, At War, and Safety (CD-ROM)

Serves me right for not reading the reviews before buying. This is a [...] and should be taken off the market. I would think the Coast Guard out raged to find this "book" for sale. I returned mine with in an hour of down loading it. All the information is high-jacked from the website [...] I hope I get a full refund.