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USCG AUP at Florida Tech

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The USCG Auxiliary University Program at @floridatech offers opportunities to support Coast Guard missions and a pathway to earn a USCG commission!

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Happy 251st Birthday to the United States Navy @usnavy !
🎉 🎂 🎁

To our steadfast partner on the seas, here’s to 251 more! (Just remember who’s the longest continuous seaborne service 👀).

Slides 1 & 2 may be from DVIDS, but 3 & 4 are from one of our cadets at Port Canaveral watching an attack submarine come into port! (Information is well out of date). It’s always a pleasure to help welcome you home, even as Cadets doing our part.

#usnavy #happy251st #uscg #uscgaup #uscgaux by @uscgaup_floridatech

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
September 27th, 1942, a Coast Guardsman Signalman 1st Class Douglas Albert Munro performed an act of extraordinary heroism that embodied the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard.

On that day, off Guadalcanal, Munro was a part of a forward deployed base of Coast Guard personnel for ship to shore ferrying, and Search & Rescue duties. Signalman 1st Class Munro and his best friend and shipmate Raymond Evans, after dropping off over 500 Marines, led by then Lt. Col Chesty Puller, ashore, became aware of the Marines being almost cut off by Japanese troops ashore in heavy fighting. A fighting withdrawal was ordered to the shore for evacuation, landing craft were instructed to extract the Marines under fire.

Upon both Munro and Evans being asked if they would take charge of the mission, Munro answered without hesitation:

“Hell yes!”

As the boats and landing craft approached the beaches, they came under heavy fire from Japanese in the surrounding area and high ground. Munro manned a .30 caliber Lewis gun, directing covering fire, covering other vessels recovering troops and casualties alike. With the infantry continuing their withdrawal, and the Japanese advancing alike, Munro piloted his boat closer ashore to act as a shield for Marines, and closer still for a grounded vessel.

As Munro shielded others and provided covering fire, Munro was struck in the base of his skull by enemy fire and lost consciousness.

After the other craft were extracted, and beyond range of enemy fire, Munro briefly regained consciousness, his final words being:

“Did they get off?”. After seeing Evans nod their success, Munro smiled, and passed away.

For these actions above and beyond the call of duty, he became the only Coast Guardsman as of yet, to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, nominated by Lt. Colonel Puller.

Munro’s legacy did not end that day on Guadalcanal. After the war, his remains were reinterred in his hometown in Cle Elum, Washington. He is commemorated there and at Training Center Cape May every year, where every new recruit learns of his story.

He is the namesake of multiple statues, memorials, awards, scholarship by @uscgaup_floridatech

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19 days ago

This week’s schedule for Florida Tech AUP!

Our monthly flotilla meeting is this Thursday at our flotilla headquarters, and our second AUP meeting of the semester is this Friday! This upcoming meeting involves an Intro to Marine Safety and Environmental Protection presentation by our Division Commander! Interested students are able to attend and see what the AUP can offer!

Students in the @uscg_aup are able to take this course as an equivalency to the @uscg 12 week Marine Science Technician A-School! The course is ideal for AUP students, and is a requirement for the Marine Safety Ribbon.

Our flotilla meeting will review our flotilla’s actions in the last month, with the AUP as a detachment of 070-17-02, and determine the next month’s objectives.

Interested in joining the AUP? Message this account, and we’ll get you started!
#uscg #uscgaux #uscgaup #semperparatus #marinesafety by @uscgaup_floridatech

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a month ago

Not everyone can be in Sector Los Angeles or Boston, someone’s gotta hold it down in the Space Coast!

Here’s a sneak peak at our early morning operations and view of cruise liner traffic into Port Canaveral! Maritime Security and Boating Safety takes every part of responsible agencies working together to make a difference for the better. Thankfully, with the Auxiliary and the Coast Guard AUP, our cadets are able to learn how to and do make a difference right where we are.

Interested in joining Team Coast Guard? Inquire within!
@portcanaveral @uscgaux @uscg_aup @brevard_sheriff @floridatech
#semperparatus #uscg #uscgaux #spacecoast #uscgaup by @uscgaup_floridatech

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a month ago

‘What goes up…’
This weekend’s launch of the @spacex Falcon Heavy carrying the Nancy Grace Roman telescope wasn’t immediately audible at 15 miles, but the @uscgaux with @uscg_aup cadets had an excellent view from Port Canaveral while executing our Boating Safety mission!
#uscg #uscgaux #boatingsafety #spacecoast #semperparatus by @uscgaup_floridatech

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Florida Tech AUP members assisted in Space Launch Support team operations under orders at Port Canaveral this Sunday, for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman telescope!
As a part of #teamcoastguard as a force multiplier, Auxiliarists assisted the CG and OGA’s (other government agencies) on keeping recreational and other vessel traffic from entering the Restricted Area, Regulated Navigation Area, and the downrange Launch Hazard Area.
Unlike humanity’s new eye in the sky, you don’t have to be 930,000 miles away to make a big difference. Joining the AUP/the Coast Guard Auxiliary allows you to do good from right where you are!
Join today by visiting our links in bio!
#semperparatus #uscgaux #uscgaup #spacecoast taken in Port Canaveral, Florida by @uscgaup_floridatech

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a month ago

We’re gonna need a bigger boat for Panther AUP!

Interested students attended our first meeting of the semester yesterday, our ‘Boot Camp’ introduction to the Coast Guard, Auxiliary, and AUP as a program. With over 30 interested students, multiple opportunities to be introduced at any time are available! These students, and many more, are taking the plunge and seeing what the AUP has to offer! Interested? Ask away in DMs or comments!

Thinking of donating a platform or vessel? Consider the Coast Guard Auxiliary! Our charter flotilla, 070-17-02 can process your donation of cars, trucks, trailers, boats, and even aircraft for Auxiliary purposes!
#uscg #uscgaux #uscgaup #semperparatus #weregonnaneedabiggerboat
@uscgaux @uscg_au by @uscgaup_floridatech

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2 months ago

Happy National Aviation and World Photography Day! Florida Tech is proud to be the first Auxiliary University Program in the state of Florida, and who else to highlight on a day like today but the men and women of @uscg_airstation_miami !

Active Duty/Reserve aviators, and well as Auxilarists in AUXAIR, are vital in operations in the region. In keeping with the best traditions of the Coast Guard, they remain Always Ready! Bravo Zulu to all at AS Miami!

@uscg_aup cadets at Florida Tech are able to become Auxiliary Air Crew while in college, and can gain operational experience and Coast Guard mission time while in college!
Interested? Ask away in DM’s or comments!

(Photos from AUXAIR Miami website).
#uscgaux #uscgaup #uscg #semperparatus
#nationalaviationday by @uscgaup_floridatech

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2 months ago

We’re off to a great start, thanks to the 50+ students who stopped by to express interest in the AUP at today’s Student Life Event! Today’s event was a great success! We hope to bring as many students in as possible.
The next event on the 20th holds another opportunity to learn all about the AUP, and we hope to see more new faces there!
#uscgaux #uscgaup #uscg #semperparatus #floridatech
@uscgaux @uscg_aup @uscg_rcu by @uscgaup_floridatech

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2 months ago

Can you be a college student and a Coast Guard Auxiliarist? The answer is yes!

We’re starting our @floridatech_orientation recruiting early this semester, join us August 13th, 2-4 pm at the Student Life Fair at the @floridatech Clemente Center!
Come on and see the AUP at FIT! The Space Coast is the place to be!
@uscg_aup @uscgaux @uscg_rcu
#uscgaup #uscgaux #uscg #semperparatus #friendlyneighborhoodcoastguardsman by @uscgaup_floridatech

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2 months ago

On this day, August 4th, 2026, we celebrate the 236th anniversary of the founding of the oldest continual seagoing service, United States Coast Guard. It’s initial form, the Revenue Marine was founded in 1790 by Founding Father, and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, later becoming the Revenue Cutter Service, and in 1915, combined with the United States Life-Saving-Service to officially become the United States Coast Guard.

From an initial ten cutters to cover America’s tariff and customs enforcement at ports, the Revenue Marine grew into a maritime force, the largest Coast Guard in the world, of more than 41,000 Active Duty Members, 6,000 Reservists, 26,000 Auxilarists, and 9,000 Civilian Employees, (Source: USCG.mil Workforce). With two dozen air stations, hundreds of aircraft, hundreds of cutters/ships, thousands of smaller craft, and radio facilities, Team Coast Guard is ready, willing, and able to face the challenges our missions present.

For all men and women who have served in Team Coast Guard, past and present, who have heeded our nation’s call, and have remained Always Ready.

From all of us at Florida Tech AUP, Bravo Zulu!

Here’s to 23 more decades of excellence!
#semperparatus #uscgaux #uscgaup #teamcoastguard #uscg by @uscgaup_floridatech

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2 months ago

A busy July 5th off NYC with USCGC Stone, a Legend-Class, National Security Cutter! 418 ft, 4,700 tons of the highest performance a Coast Guard Cutter can offer!
One of the many ways to be an involved part of Team Coast Guard in the @uscg_aup !
#semperparatus #uscg #uscgaux #uscgaup #uscgauxiliary by @uscgaup_floridatech

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