Coast Guard renames geographic operational districts

[LAflyer]

The U.S. Coast Guard is renaming its operational districts from numerical to geographic designations.

The new geographic names as follows:
District 1: USCG Northeast District
District 5: USCG East District
District 7: USCG Southeast District
District 8: USCG Heartland District
District 9: USCG Great Lakes District
District 11: USCG Southwest District
District 13: USCG Northwest District
District 14: USCG Oceania District
District 17: USCG Arctic District

 

[eorange]

At least the residents of Iowa won't be confused now 🙂

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

At least the residents of Iowa won't be confused now 🙂

They have had so few shipwrecks in Iowa I doubt they could care. Political shipwrecks? Many of those.