Yeah, Coasties do some pretty cool shit. If you're not into rescuing people, they have jobs that involve [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/USCG_TACLET_Airborne_Use_of_Force.jpg]blasting drug smugglers with .50 caliber rifles (from a helicopter)[/url] or [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Drugsub-Coast_Guard.jpg]finding and sinking narco-submarines.[/url] Plus, unless you're DOG you're not spending a year in buttfuck Afghanistan.

Plus they have the sexy nautical uniforms without the buffoonery of the Navy and their seventy uniform variations.