U.S. Coast Guard Day
U.S. Coast Guard Day is held on August 4. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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Becoming a Coast Guard rescue swimmer is exceptionally difficult. The U.S. Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and the only military organization within the Department of Homeland Security. Coast Guard Day is held every August 4 to commemorate the founding of the United States Coast Guard as the Revenue Marine on August 4, 1790, by then-Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
Alex Haley, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Roots, was the Coast Guard’s first journalist. After graduating high school at age 15, Haley enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1939 at the age of just 18 as a Mess Attendant Third Class, one of the only two ratings available to Black service members at the time.
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