U.S. COAST GUARD- 

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

For over two centuries the U.S. Coast Guard has safeguarded our Nation’s maritime interests in the heartland, in the ports, at sea, and around the globe. We protect the maritime economy and the environment, we defend our maritime borders, and we save those in peril. This history has forged our character and purpose as America’s Maritime Guardian — Always Ready for all hazards and all threats.

Today’s U.S. Coast Guard, with nearly 42,000 men and women on active duty, is a unique force that carries out an array of civil and military responsibilities touching almost every facet of the U.S. maritime environment.

Missions

By law, the Coast Guard has 11 missions:

• Ports, waterways, and coastal security
• Drug interdiction
• Aids to navigation
• Search and rescue
• Living marine resources
• Marine safety
• Defense readiness
• Migrant interdiction
• Marine environmental protection
• Ice operations
• Other law enforcement

(listed in order of percentage of operating expenses)

Thus, we are military, multi-mission, and maritime.

CG22165A  Crewmen from the Spencer (WPG-36) picking up survivors from a Nazi U-boat just before it sank.

CG22155     Duane WPG-33      327' Treasury Class Cutters - Surface broadside view of the Duane underway in rough North Atlantic waters.

CG22164A  Spencer (WPG-36) German prisoners from a sunken U-boat in the North Atlantic enjoying the food on the Spencer.

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