Flash back Friday. This was the funeral for the last surviving member of Station Pea Island. It was the first black living saving in the Coast Guard. Which guy is me? . Read below: . Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the country to have an all-black crew, and it was the first in the nation to have a black man, Richard Etheridge, as commanding officer.[1] On August 3, 2012, the second of the Coast Guard's 154-foot Sentinel-Class Cutters, USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102), was commissioned in his honor. #peaisland #uscg #uscghonorguard #uscgcutter #gocoastguard #militaryhonors #21gunsalute (at Fayetteville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4niGEknZGo/?igshid=3evr2v2zyeae
