Radio Boat Forces
Radio Boat Forces offers essential discussions on maritime operations, professional development, open-source policy updates, and field insights from around the country. All views expressed are solely those of the hosts/guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Nevertheless, Radio Boat Forces provides exclusive content with leading experts, offering operational and leadership insights, as well as special guest interviews addressing mission-critical topics such as search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, aids to navigation, and other Coast Guard mission areas.
Whether you serve in the Coast Guard, a maritime partner agency, or consider yourself a military or maritime enthusiast, Radio Boat Forces delivers practical knowledge, historical insights, and other engaging content with a touch of light-hearted fun along the way.
Radio Boat Forces
ME-RFMC + What if We Never Left the Navy in 1946?
Outgoing ME Rating Force Master Chief Ryan Patterson sits down with us to reflect on his tour as the enlisted leader for Maritime Enforcement specialists. With approximately 7,000 certified boarding officers and boarding team members across active and reserve components, he shares lessons learned, discusses workforce evolution, and explains what it means to advocate for ME personnel at Headquarters.
Then we enter an alternate universe where the Coast Guard never left the Department of the Navy after WWII. In this speculative short story, cutters fly naval pennants, missions blur, and the service’s identity takes a sharp turn. What’s gained? What’s lost?
Half leadership insight, half speculative fiction, this episode explores where we are and where we might have gone.
This is an Unofficial Podcast. All views expressed are solely those of the hosts/guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Coast Guard.