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Just a quick technical note: Coast Guard cutters don't have gun "turrets", the have gun "mounts". The difference is that turrets are built down through the structure of the ship, have armored barbets, have a separate below deck magazine & powder handling room & are part of the internal framing of the ship where a mount is basically already assembled & lowered into place & bolted down with a below deck ammo feed system.

Those are Command Excellence or Effectiveness Awards. Red E on the stack is for Engineering excellence. Red DC for Damage Control. Larger cutters with gun turrets may display a black E on the gun turret. Here's a link to the U.S. Navy ship awards (USCG is similar) https://www.navysite.de/what/bridgewing.htm

I was wondering what the letters on the bridge wings and super structure of US Coast Guard ships represented? Usually E, H, DC, inspection marks? DC=Damage control?