The Coast Guard Years Podcast

Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:8 Lost Uniforms & The State Trooper Who Let Me Get Away

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:00:00 GMT

COMDAC School comes to an end, and now Gonzo is headed to NAVMACS school...sort of.....

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:7 Beach Trips

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:01:00 GMT

Going to COMDAC School in Portsmouth, might as well go to the beach, morale van to the rescue. Just not the beach you think it is.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:6 COMDAC and some Chiefs

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Heading to another Coast Guard electronics school in Portsmouth, VA.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:5 The Shower and the Fan

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Yes, we're talking about the same shower from ET school, well sort of talking about the shower.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:4 RADAR School and a Cat Club.wav

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Heading off to RADAR School, and life just wouldn't be "normal" for me if there wasn't something unexpected didn't happen.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:3 New Bedford and The Canoe

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Heading to New Bedford and doing a little bit of canoeing.

Written and Produced by Tim Gonzalez

Intro and Outro by Nicholas Gonzalez

Music by by Tim Gonzalez

Production by Mislaid Productions

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:2 Learning the ropes and PMs

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:01:00 GMT

This episode, Gonzo starts to do ET stuff and learns a Southern saying.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boston Episode:1 The North End and an Old Friend

Tue, 27 May 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Headed to Boston and another cab ride, what could possibly go wrong?

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years New York EP:6 Boot Camps and Graduation

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:01:16 GMT

The time in Govenors Island is almost over. Just a few more things to button up.

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Season 3 Gonzo the Coast Guard Years New York EP:5 Static electricity and Duty Assignments

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:01:08 GMT

Gonzo, the Coast Guard Years, New York, Episode 5: Static electricity and Duty Assignments

One of the things we learned in ET school, was just that. Static electricity, although not in the way I thought it probably was meant to be taught.

Oh and we went to a baseball game too.

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Season 3 Gonzo the Coast Guard Years New York EP:4 The Flush Protocol

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:23:34 GMT

Sort of a tour of the bathroom...sort of.

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Season 3 Gonzo the Coast Guard Years New York EP:3 Pizza and The USO

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:01:13 GMT

Pizza Runs and going to the USO....sort of.

Season 3 Gonzo the Coast Guard Years New York EP:3 Pizza and The USO

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Season 3 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years New York EP2: Governors Island

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:01:17 GMT

Gonzo finally arrives at Coast Electronics "A" school at Governors Island, NY.

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Season 3 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years New York EP1: Take a Cab They Said

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:44:52 GMT

Whoa! Heading to New York City for Electronics School.

Season 3 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years New York EP1: Take a Cab They Said

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Season 2 Gonzo The CG Years, Key West: EP13 Going to the Academy and Thanksgiving

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 05:30:21 GMT

So it's off to the Coast Guard Academy. Yes, I went to the Academy.....sort of that is.

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Season 2 Gonzo The CG Years, Key West: EP12 Dry Dock and Bus Juice

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 04:01:12 GMT

We go into dry dock, whatever that is.

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Season 2 Gonzo The CG Years, Key West: EP11 Deck Apes and Gunners Mates

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 03:05:00 GMT

So finally made it to the ship yards. a little bit about Deck Apes and Gunnermates.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Key West episode 10 Egress and Frozen Fish

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:09:00 GMT

Gonzo recalls life in the Coast Guard. Well at least how he remembers it.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Key West Episode 9 Fire Watch and Tobacco

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:09:14 GMT

Spend some time talking about the shipyard workers and getting to know my new shipmates onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis 910.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Key West episode 8 Whats a Thetis

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 04:05:00 GMT

Alright so it's more Thetis, sort of. I know you're wondering what a Thetis is, I mean like who isn't wondering.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Key West episode 7 Why Did Hey Say that and a Thetis

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 04:00:00 GMT

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Key West: Episode 6 Open The Door and The Gym

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 04:00:00 GMT

My Coast Guard Experience really took a weird turn

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Key West Episode 5 New Years and Boots

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:27:14 GMT

As if my first day on the job didn't suck enough, but I got to do more "seaman" type stuff....sort of.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years, Key West: Episode 4 Cruising and Christmas

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 05:00:00 GMT

I get introduced to Cruising and my first Christmas away from Virginia.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years, Key West: Episode 3 First Day On The Job

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 04:10:00 GMT

Okay SO finally my first real day on the job, it's so NOT what I expected.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years, Key West: Episode 2 Duval Street and a Sunset

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:10:00 GMT

Still my first day in Key West, FL. It's time to explore a little.

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Season 2 Gonzo The Coast Guard Years, Key West: Episode 1 Permissive Orders and Where am I

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 04:10:00 GMT

Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Season 2: Key West, Permissive Orders and Where am I

On to my first duty assignment, and of course it doesn't go smooth

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 10: “What do these look like, and Graduation”

Mon, 13 May 2019 04:32:16 GMT

Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 10: “What do these look like, and Graduation”

Season Finale: We will be back in August

Off to the Range, and I get to meet another Company Commander and her company.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 9: “Range Day & A Wolf Pack”

Mon, 06 May 2019 05:01:00 GMT

Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 8: “Range Day & A Wolf Pack”

It’s time to go to the range, and Gonzo, that’s me runs into a Wolf Pack on Cape May.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 8: “Week Six and Duty Stations”

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 05:01:00 GMT

Week 6 Physical Fitness tests, where I try to rack up as many points as I can, and time to pick my first duty station assuming I survive boot camp

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 7: “White Belts-Black Belts & Sir You’re Wrong Sir”

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:01:00 GMT

Sometimes people don’t make it through boot camp, what happens to them, and also the day I totally lost my mind and said something I clearly shouldn’t have said.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years Boot Camp, Episode 6: “Inspections and Pdua Jacks”

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:01:00 GMT

The day we came back to the squad bay only to find that our racks had been tossed. I also learned a new phrase, Puda Jacks. I really could have done without learning it.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard years: Boot Camp, Episode 5: “Sink or Swim”

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 05:01:00 GMT

We’re in week two of boot camp and this is where things sort of start to take shape.

We get to do our first Coast Guard Swim test.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard years: Boot Camp Episode 4: "How I Met my CC"

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 06:01:00 GMT

Forming company is over, we meet our Company Commander (CC). We have a company name now, Victor 126

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Boot Camp Episode 3: "Uniforms and Vaccinations"

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 05:01:00 GMT

It’s the first week of boot camp, known as Forming Company. It’s here where all the “boring” stuff is taken care of, and now it’s Uniforms and Vaccinations

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Boot Camp Episode 2: “Haircuts and Drug Tests”

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 05:01:00 GMT

Forming Company Week “Haircuts and Drug Tests”

It’s the first week of boot camp, known as Forming Company. It’s here where all the “boring” stuff is taken care of.

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Gonzo The Coast Guard Years: Boot Camp Episode 1 “I Broke The Toilet”

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 05:05:00 GMT

Day 1 of Coast Guard Boot Camp

My Trip from the airport to CG Boot camp and my first night there.

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Introduction To Gonzo The Coast Guard Years

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 03:26:36 GMT

The Coast Guard Years Podcast Introduction:

Hi and welcome to Gonzo, The Coast Guard Years Podcast. My name is Nicholas Gonzalez, and my Dad, Tim Gonzalez, well he’s Gonzo, at least that’s what his Coast Guard friends that I met call him. Seems that nicknames stuck for life. This Podcast is about my Dad’s, time in the Coast Guard from October 1987 to May 1992.

The hope of this podcast is to shed a little light on what it was like to be in the US Coast Guard, prior to 9/11. It’s not a recruiting tool, nor a pitch to join up or even an attempt to glamorize it at all.

Although if you find that you’re interested in knowing more about the Coast Guard, feel free to put a question in the comments section. We will do our best to respond.

Hopefully you will find this both entertaining and informative, the stories you’re going to hear are not usually spoken about publicly, or at least not outside of your local Coast Guard Watering hole.

Please keep in my mind that these “tales” are being told from my Dad’s point of view, and not everyone will share his views but maybe relate, just a little bit.

“OH, and some of the names you’re going to hear along the way, well they’ve been changed, not so much to protect the innocent. Just the story that they are in may end up being a little embarrassing and they wouldn’t necessarily want anyone else to know about their involvement.

If you enjoy this podcast, please be sure to click the subscribe button and be sure to leave any comments below.

And now let me welcome you again, to Gonzo, The Coast Guard Years.

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