Corkonian Coast Guard
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The Royal Corkonian Coast Guard or the Corkonian Coast Guard, or just the Coast Guard, is the naval component of the Royal Corkonian Defence Forces, it comprises of a fleet air arm and a patrol fleet. The coast guard's main responsibility revolves around protecting and maintaining orders around Cork's coastline and ensuring no danger approaches shore.
The coast guard works with the navy and actively trains with them.
History
Creation
Organization
Uniform
The coast guard as of January 25th 2024 consists of two uniforms. The service dress, aka No.1s and formals aka No.2. Service dress is used for everything from PT to exercises to deployments. Formals are used on base when doing drill, general garrison or when not doing active duty.
No.1s
The No.1s camo pattern follows a blue DPM style, the camo is from the Kuwaitian navy's DPM. The uniform was adopted on the 25th January 2024 and was put into service since. Previously when the Navy was fully responsible for the patrolling of the coast, the coast guard always used naval No.8s (camos).
When wearing the No.1s the only gear attached is a DPM vest used to carry ammo, flag batch and a beret. The beret is of the wearers division, either that of patrol fleet, fleet air arm or civil arm. Only headgear the coast guard can expect to be equipped with is a beret.
The No.1s are not to be worn with a stablebelt. Only members of the Fleet Air Arm are permitted to wear jumpsuits. Berets are to be worn at all time.
When wearing the No.1s the wearer will have a rank slide on their webbing. This rank slide is mandatory.
No.2s
The No.2s aka the formals are a set of uniform that are to be used on base, on public grounds and on parade. They are not to be worn in deployment or active duty unless garrisoning under specific situations. The formals are also used in training when conducting drill/marching. They were adopted on the 25th January 2024 and were put into service, all ranks are to wear the stablebelt with the formals.
Formals are also to be worn with beret, the only two permitted gears with formals are berets and stablebelts, the rest will go against uniform guidelines.
When wearing formals the wearer will have their rank either on their sleeve or shoulder.
When in formals, no individual unless given proper authorization is permitted to carry a gun. Only such authorizations are given when on garrison, when guarding or when in hostile areas.
Headwear
The Royal Coast Guard only wear berets, of which there are three. One for each division. The blue beret with a black background is for all members of the Patrol Fleet, this beret is the second least common given it's for specific deployed personnel, mostly on ships in hostile areas or in contested waters.
The second beret is for the fleet air arm, this beret is the least common as it is only for pilots, officers, engineers and other fleet air arm specific personnel.
The third beret is the most common one, it is for the civil arm division. This is the most common one to be found on ships, bases and other installations.
All headwear use the same capbadge, the one of the coast guard.