• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The fact the Coast Guard spent four million dollars per recruit on a NASCAR campaign is unreal. Yet after they’ve served they’ll be lucky to get a free massage.

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      3 months ago

      It was National Guard not Coast Guard, Coast Guard doesn’t have that kind of budget. Never had, never will.

      • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I think I read somewhere that the number of active duty Coast Guard is less than the number of New York City police officers.

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          Coast Guard has something like 50k active, reserve and civilian workforce and NYPD is like 55k