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The first Congress authorized Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, to construct ten vessels, known as “revenue cutters,” to enforce tariff and trade laws, prevent smuggling, and protect the collection of federal revenue which provided as much as 90 percent of federal revenue. That fact is why the Coast Guard was originally called Revenue Marine or the Revenue Cutter Service until 1915. In that year, Congress combined it with the U.S. Life Saving Service and rechristened it the Coast Guard.

This is our bi-monthly board meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend and we invite all members of our community to come and participate.

This is our bi-monthly board meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend and we invite all members of our community to come and participate.

Our office is closed today so that our staff may celebrate Labor Day with their family and friends. Thank you for your understanding.

This is our bi-monthly board meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend and we invite all members of our community to come and participate.

On August 1, 1907, the US Army Signal Corps established a small Aeronautical Division to take “charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects”, just 4 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight.

Between 1909 and 1947, the U.S. Air Force did not exist as a separate and independent military service organization. It went through a series of designations: Aeronautical Section, Signal Corps (1909); Aviation Section, Signal Corps (1914); United States Army Air Service (1918); United States Army Air Corps (1926), and United States Army Air Forces (1941).

President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act on July 26, 1947, onboard the Presidential aircraft, a Douglas VC-54C named “Sacred Cow” which set the wheels in motion for the creation of a separate Air Force. The USAF became a separate service branch on Sept. 18, 1947, seven weeks later.

This is our bi-monthly board meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend and we invite all members of our community to come and participate.

The Second Continental Congress established a Continental Navy, which later, on October 13, 1775, became the United States Navy. When the infant Navy was first formed, it consisted of just two armed vessels and their mission was to wage raids against the ships that supplied British forces in North America.  After the war, the Continental Navy was dismantled, but pirate threats to American merchant shipping led President George Washington to establish the Naval Act of 1794, creating a permanent standing US Navy.

In 1972, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt authorized official recognition of 13 October as the birthday of the U.S. Navy.

Our office is closed today in celebration of Columbus Day. Thank you for your understanding.

This is our bi-monthly board meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend and we invite all members of our community to come and participate.

This is our bi-monthly board meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend and we invite all members of our community to come and participate.