Posted on Jan 13, 2022
On the Frontline Against China, the US Coast Guard Is Taking on Missions the US Navy Can't Do
475
14
8
8
8
0
The ships and personnel of the US Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, are spending more time in the region conducting missions for which other branches aren't well suited, balancing that increasing demand with a lengthy list of other responsibilities.
"What we do, it's not big in numbers, but it's, I think, pretty significant in contribution. We get access. We can go places," Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard, said at a Navy League event in December.
Schultz singled out the cutter Munro, which in October returned from a 102-day Indo-Pacific deployment. Munro trained with allies and partners in the East and South China Seas and "exercised" a memorandum of understanding with Taiwan, Schultz said. Munro also sailed through the Taiwan Strait, which, like past transits, was condemned by China.
"What we do, it's not big in numbers, but it's, I think, pretty significant in contribution. We get access. We can go places," Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard, said at a Navy League event in December.
Schultz singled out the cutter Munro, which in October returned from a 102-day Indo-Pacific deployment. Munro trained with allies and partners in the East and South China Seas and "exercised" a memorandum of understanding with Taiwan, Schultz said. Munro also sailed through the Taiwan Strait, which, like past transits, was condemned by China.
On the Frontline Against China, the US Coast Guard Is Taking on Missions the US Navy Can't Do
Posted from military.com
Coast Guard
China
Taiwan
Edited 3 y ago
Posted 3 y ago
Responses: 3
4
4
0
Since the Coast Guard is usually involved in so many "Rescue Situations" IMHO they are considered good Ambassadors worldwide.
(4)
(0)
SCPO Bill Bowen
The Coast Guard is also tasked with helping to enforce international maritime law, eg., smuggling (drugs, arms); illegal alien migration; treaties and accords of which the US is a signatory, and other issues with which they are called upon or are directed at the request to the US of a foreign nation or DoD assets. It's a big mixed bag of federal regulations and other things tossed in. So being Semper Paratus isn't just a slogan.
(0)
(0)
MSgt Dale Johnson
SCPO Bill Bowen - All that is true, but if the Navy had signed a MOU China could have taken it as a potential Hostile action, whereas the CG is more the good ambassador.
(0)
(0)
PO1 Kevin Dougherty
The USCG has 11 statutory missions:
Ports, Waterways & Coastal Security
Drug Interdiction
Aids to Navigation (ATON: including maintaining the nation's lighthouses, buoys & VTS; --also legacy ATON missions including lightships & LORAN)
Search & Rescue (SAR)
Living Marine Resources
Marine Safety
Defense Readiness (National Security & Military Preparedness)
Migrant Interdiction
Maritime Environmental Protection
Polar, Ice & Alaska Operations (including the International Ice Patrol)
Law Enforcement (including Prohibition Enforcement History)
Ports, Waterways & Coastal Security
Drug Interdiction
Aids to Navigation (ATON: including maintaining the nation's lighthouses, buoys & VTS; --also legacy ATON missions including lightships & LORAN)
Search & Rescue (SAR)
Living Marine Resources
Marine Safety
Defense Readiness (National Security & Military Preparedness)
Migrant Interdiction
Maritime Environmental Protection
Polar, Ice & Alaska Operations (including the International Ice Patrol)
Law Enforcement (including Prohibition Enforcement History)
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
The USCG is still the Gold Standard among Coast Guards. Even China models their operations after the USCG, and uses a similar paint scheme. BTW, the USCG also has elements deployed with the 5th and 6th fleets, and likely the 4th as well.
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
Good on the coasties. The partnership has been beneficial as long as I remember. The last paragraph is the meat of the nut. This 280 vessel Navy is simply too small.
(0)
(0)
PO1 Kevin Dougherty
Well I was taught in boot camp that the USCG was the hard nut that the Navy formed around in times of war. 8-P
(1)
(0)
CWO4 Terrence Clark
PO1 Kevin Dougherty
Replaced the compression brake on the moho today. Too tired for more than a witty, "Oh, yeah?" :-))
Replaced the compression brake on the moho today. Too tired for more than a witty, "Oh, yeah?" :-))
(1)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google