Nicklas Lacca 5/3/13Hour 2

U.S. Coast Guard

My career is the U.S. Coast Guard. I want to join the coast guard because it has a lot of my interest in it, I like to be active and I want to save people also. I also want to join the coast guard because I want to serve for the U.S. Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families. I first wanted to join this career when I was with my cousin out on the boat and we seen the coast guard helping a person that drowned.

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Introduction

Be safe self discipline Water survival and swim qualifications Marksmanship Patients

Nature of Work

Physical Outdoor On a boat a lot You stay at a base Wet environment

Working Conditions

→ no degree (low rank) → central for degree → life guarding (high school) → swimming

Training, Qualification, Advancement

33,586 people employment rate rising Honolulu, Hawaii Miami beach, Florida

Job Outlook/Employment

1,468 a month (first joining) 11,541 a month (in service for 20 years)+ $15,401 highest pay 1,468 lowest pay in service-

Earnings

be on time no degree required Be good at what sport you play $525,000 (a year)

Related Occupation

After researching this career field I found out a lot of interesting facts about the coast guard. Yes, I still want to proceed this career. On thing I am looking forward to is flying in a helicopter and helping people that need it. The on thing that I'm not looking forward to is not knowing where I might be stationed out of. One thing that that I learned is that it takes lots of training to be good at it.

Summary

Citationshttp://www.bls.gov/ooh/military/military-careers.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_coast_guard http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061114211157AAA4AoJ