Talk:Lighthouse

CNIC/Coast Guard

Hi All!

Danny here. Anyone else remember how the CNIC acts as the (CPFW) USA Coast Guard? Anyone else remember how the (real life) USA's Coastie's act as keepers? Mhmmm. Shall we have a EBUL Officer who also is a member of the CNIC run it? Also, the TCP Lighthouse actually has a FOURTH ORDER FRESNEL Lens, not a so called "Not Special" Lens.

Sorry about the useless Light House facts, just visited my family's cottage on Lake Huron, Michigan across a small bay from a Light House.

--Dan (Talk/Blog/Contributions) 21:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

In times of old and long-gone, lighthouse keepers had no military affliations. They might have owned the lighthouse or were hired to work it. In fact, only ONE lighthouse in the United States has a flesh-and-blood keeper. All other lighthouses are mechanized and maintained entirely or motly by computers! You're confusing a lighthouse keeper with lighthouse maintenence.

Plus, legally speaking, the CNIC isn't the disignated coast gaurd. That'd make it a military branch, which it isn't. REMEMBER: the laws that authorized it permitted it to excercise all of the duties of the AIA, PSA, and EPF on water. It consolidates those three on the high seas. None of those three groups are military. They are civillian espionage/intelligence agencies that gather intelligence and enforce the law. None of them are military, but you COULD say they are paramilitary, meaning they have army-like duties and/or help soldiers directly (they do).

If only the Coast Gaurd can maintain lighthouses, then the CNIC has no power there, because the CNIC is not the Coast Gaurd: it's water espionage and admiralty police (it "maintains order on the High Seas"). The CNIC could be called "the PSA of the oceans", so to speak.

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P.S.: The last civillian (true) keeper died in 2003.

P.S.S.: That keeper's lighthouse is called "Boston Light". The lighthouse was automated in 1998, but the keeper still works there full-time. Since the automation, the position of Keeper transitioned to a ceremonial, technical, volunteer, and tourism post.

United States of Antarctica Coast Guard --Dan (Talk/Blog/Contributions) 03:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)