Coast Guard Station Burlington VT is staffed with approximately 25 enlisted men and women. The Station provides the Lake Champlain area with Search and Rescue, Law Enforcement and Ice Rescue services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It also maintains the buoys and other Aids to Navigation located on the Lake. Station Burlington assists about 1,000 boaters each year. Burlington's area of responsibility includes all 125 miles of Lake Champlain, Coast Guard Auxillary co-ordination for Lake George and Lake Scanadaga, and aids to navigation on Lake Memphramagog in northern Vermont. I know many are concern about the r**e victim from this unit. I was not around in 2006 and am very sadden to hear that a woman who was r**ed had to endure not being believed and further punished for reporting the assault. I have spoken to many who served with her and were sworn to continue the victim-blaming game to protect the reputation of the Coast Guard. However most of those folks are no longer serving with us. I speak for many of my shipmates and we support her and are very thankful for all that she has done to help make the Coast Guard a better place for us. We have vowed as a station to continue helping her protect our shipmates while we also help her heal. Many of us are in constant communication with the victim and committed to helping her make the Coast Guard a safer place for all of us to serve.. We are honored to call her our shipmate. Please keep this wall free of further talk about the sexual assault victim.
