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See National Search and Rescue Committee Search and Rescue emblem of U.S. Coast Guard. Search and Rescue (SAR) is one of the Coast Guard's oldest missions. The National Search and Rescue Plan [2] designates the United States Coast Guard as the federal agency responsible for maritime SAR operations in U.S. and international waters, and the United States Air Force as the federal agency ...
The Coast Guard CW Operators Association (CGCWOA) is a membership organization comprising primarily former members of the United States Coast Guard who held the enlisted rating of Radioman (RM) or Telecommunications Specialist (TC), and who employed International Morse Code (CW) in their routine communications duties on Coast Guard cutters and ...
Austin has held several commands including Fifth District Commander; Sector Delaware Bay, executing the Coast Guard’s 11 statutory missions along the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania; the Pacific Strike Team and the National Strike Force, responding to oil and hazardous substance spills and threats from Weapons of Mass ...
USCGC George Cobb (WLM-564) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard.Launched in 1999, she is home-ported in San Pedro, California.Her primary mission is maintaining over 178 floating aids to navigation on the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego.
The Polar Security Cutter Program is a program to recapitalize the United States Coast Guard's aging fleet of icebreakers, currently consisting of the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star and the medium icebreaker USCGC Healy, with three new multi-mission vessels referred to as Polar Security Cutters (PSC).
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCGAUX, CGAux, or USCG Aux) is the uniformed, non-military volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard. [3] [4] [5] Congress established the unit on 23 June 1939, as the United States Coast Guard Reserve.
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A Coast Guard Maritime Security Response team executing a boarding action from an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. The Coast Guard has six major operational mission programs, through which it executes its 11 statutory missions: [211] Maritime law enforcement; Maritime response; Maritime prevention; Maritime transport system management; Maritime ...