The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is the service academy of the United States Coast Guard, founded in 1876 and located in New London, Connecticut. It is the smallest of the five federal service academies and provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of eight major fields of study.
The gall bladder is a small sac that holds bile, a digestive juice produced by the liver that is used in the breakdown of dietary fats. The gall bladder extracts water from its store of bile until the liquid becomes highly concentrated.
Liver and Gall Bladder. The liver produces a greenish juice called bile, which is stored and concentrated by the gall bladder. After a high-fat meal, such as one containing cheese, cream or bacon, the fats from the food tend to stick together to form large fat spheres. These are too big to be absorbed by the body.