United States Coast Guard
The mission of the United States Coast Guard is to ensure our Nation's maritime safety, security and stewardship. We will serve our Nation through the selfless performance of our missions. We will honor our duty to protect those we serve and those who serve with us.
What is United States Coast Guard?
The United States Coast Guard is one of our nation's five military services, and is one of the oldest organizations of the federal government. The Coast Guard operates on America’s maritime front lines, and has done so since Alexander Hamilton petitioned President George Washington to build a fleet of ten sea-going cutters in 1790.
The Coast Guard served as the nation's only armed force on the sea until Congress launched the Navy Department eight years later. Since then, the Coast Guard has protected the United States throughout its long history and served proudly in every one of the nation's conflicts.
The Coast Guard has many important jobs. Coast Guard members patrol our coasts and protect our ports, harbors, and waterways. Coast Guard members protect marine resources and the people who live, work, or just have fun on the water.
Coast Guard members enforce the law and stop terrorists, criminals, and drug dealers from entering the country from the nation’s coasts.
The Coast Guard keeps boaters safe by teaching maritime safety and by rescuing people who have problems in the water. Coast Guard members operate big boats that break up ice so that those waterways are clear for travel and commerce.
What Service Does the United States Coast Guard provide?
Search and rescue
The U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue (CG-SAR) is one of the Coast Guard's best-known operations.[22] The National Search and Rescue Plan designates the Coast Guard as the federal agency responsible for maritime SAR operations, and the United States Air Force as the federal agency responsible for inland SAR.[23] Both agencies maintain rescue coordination centers to coordinate this effort, and have responsibility for both military and civilian search and rescue.[24] The two services jointly provide instructor staff for the National Search and Rescue School that trains SAR mission planners and coordinators. Previously located on Governors Island, New York, the school is now located at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown at Yorktown, Virginia.[25]
National Response Centre
An NRC FEMA First Team truck being loaded onto a Coast Guard plane for flight to Puerto Rico
Operated by the Coast Guard, the National Response Center (NRC) is the sole U.S. Government point of contact for reporting all oil, chemical, radiological, biological, and etiological spills and discharges into the environment, anywhere in the United States and its territories.[26] In addition to gathering and distributing spill/incident information for Federal On Scene Coordinators and serving as the communications and operations center for the National Response Team, the NRC maintains agreements with a variety of federal entities to make additional notifications regarding incidents meeting established trigger criteria. The NRC also takes Maritime Suspicious Activity and Security Breach Reports. Details on the NRC organization and specific responsibilities can be found in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan.[27] The Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement (MISLE) database system is managed and used by the Coast Guard for tracking pollution and safety incidents in the nation's ports.[28][29][30]
National Maritime Centre
The National Maritime Center (NMC) is the merchant mariner credentialing authority for the USCG under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security. To ensure a safe, secure, and environmentally sound marine transportation system, the mission of the NMC is to issue credentials to fully qualified mariners in the United States maritime jurisdiction.[31]
What does the average day look like?
- conducts 45 search and rescue cases;
- saves 10 lives;
- saves over $1.2M in property;
- seizes 874 pounds of cocaine and 214 pounds of marijuana;
- conducts 57 waterborne patrols of critical maritime infrastructure;
- interdicts 17 illegal migrants;
- escorts 5 high-capacity passenger vessels;
- conducts 24 security boardings in and around U.S. ports;
- screens 360 merchant vessels for potential security threats prior to arrival in U.S. ports;
- conducts 14 fisheries conservation boardings;
- services 82 buoys and fixed aids to navigation;
- investigates 35 pollution incidents;
- completes 26 safety examinations on foreign vessels;
- conducts 105 marine inspections;
- investigates 14 marine casualties involving commercial vessels;
- facilitates movement of $8.7B worth of goods and commodities through the Nation’s Maritime Transportation System.
“We do this job because every once in a while someone is out there without hope, desperately praying for their life, and we get to be the answer.”
― Coast Guard (U.S.)
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