William R. Wells II, a freelance historian and retired Coast Guard master chief petty officer, criticized the state of Coast Guard history in a 2019 essay. Of his many disparaging observations, one was particularly painful: Without knowledge of the past, historical errors continue as operations become lost to organizational memory. . . . as long as the Coast Guard maintains its style of comfortable conformity little will change in the study, research, and writing of forthright Coast Guard history .

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/lost-sea-teaching-studying-and-promoting-coast-guard-history

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