U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Golden Gate - Flotilla 1-2

ching classes in our public education courses. Our “Area of Responsibility” or AOR includes all of Richardson’s Bay with the colorful shorelines of Tiburon, Belvedere, and Sausalito. Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed, all-volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard. The Auxiliary was created by an Act of Congress in 1939, and has grown to over 32,000 members who daily support the Coast Guard in all its non-military, and non-law-enforcement missions. We have members and units in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. Auxiliary members conduct safety patrols on local waterways, assist in search & rescue, teach boating safety classes, conduct free vessel safety checks for the public, provide boating safety literature to dealers, as well as many other activities related to recreational boating safety. The Coast Guard considers the Auxiliary its primary resource for recreational boating safety outreach and prevention, and each Coast Guard district around the nation has established a senior officer and staff to provide tight liaison and coordination between the active-duty Coast Guard and the various Auxiliary units in that district. But the Auxiliary is more than recreational boating safety. We regularly serve alongside our active-duty shipmates serving as communications watchstanders, uninspected passenger vessel inspectors, training resources for air and sea operations, numerious duties related to environmental protection and homeland security, and even as chefs! In fact, there are nearly two dozen "qualifications" open to Auxiliarists willing to put in the time and training. Collectively, Auxiliarists volunteer over 4.5 million hours per year and complete nearly 500,000 missions – a true force multiplier for the Coast Guard! Membership in the Auxiliary is open to persons 17 years of age and older. We are organized into 16 districts nationwide, comprised of 171 divisions with approximately 980 flotillas. If you would like to learn more about our local Flotilla based out of USCG Station Golden Gate in Sausalito, CA, please contact Linda J. Pfeifer, staff officer for HR, at [email protected] members should plan on attending two monthly Flotilla meetings as a guest. Our meeting schedule can be found on the left menu bar of our website, at http://wow.uscgaux.info/content.php?unit=113-01-02. Contact Linda Pfeifer and she will arrange access for you to Station Golden Gate. Welcome aboard!