{"id":373445,"date":"2022-08-03T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=373445"},"modified":"2022-08-03T06:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:05:02","slug":"amata-celebrates-us-coast-guards-232nd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/amata-celebrates-us-coast-guards-232nd-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Amata celebrates US Coast Guard\u2019s 232nd birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_373446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373446\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Aumua-Amata-pix-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"612\" class=\"size-full wp-image-373446\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Samoa Delegate Aumua Amata speaks last week with Adm. Linda L. Fagan, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, notably the first woman to head up a branch of the Armed Forces. Amata attended her change of command ceremony in recent weeks. (Contributed Photo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American samoa Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata\u00a0released the following statement celebrating the 232nd birthday of the U.S. Coast Guard, which is Aug. 4:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish a very happy birthday to the U.S. Coast Guard, which is celebrating 232 years of active service to the nation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the southernmost extension of the United States, American Samoa has a special relationship with the Coast Guard. Many American Samoans have answered the call to serve with the Coast Guard and proudly embody their motto \u2018Semper Paratus\u2019\u2014Always Ready. True to their word, the Coast Guard, and the Guardsmen that fill their proud ranks, are always the first to arrive after a natural disaster. They help protect the integrity of our waters so that our sea-based industries can flourish, and they do the same for our neighboring islands. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank every person who has worn that uniform for all they have done for this country and our territory. I hope that our islands will one day soon be home for Coast Guard cutters, which would be a strong signal to our regional partners of U.S. commitment in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn American Samoa, the Coast Guard will always find a welcome, and people grateful for their service.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American samoa Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata\u00a0released the following statement celebrating the 232nd birthday of the U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":373447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}