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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is responsible a branch of the American US military and as such like other coast guards also for the maritime law, ship support or search and saving us missions. Beyond that it is as one of the sieved university-formed authorities of the US Government their avowed goal of protecting both the public order and the environment as well as of interspersing the penetration economical like safetypolitical interests of the USA in all waters of the earth, even if necessarily in international waters or in American ports, coastal regions or water routes inland. For it specific belongs to it also the maintenance of all Navigationseinrichtungen on the seas (assistance tons of navigation, ATON).
Approximately 40,150 men and women stand in the service of the American coast guard.
Even if the coast guard takes over primarily civilian tasks, like police, cleaning of developed environmental damage or, it plays maintenance of routes of transportation in this connection an important role in the preservation of regional tradition of the USA and 1 is in times of peace since that. March 2003 part of the US preservation of regional tradition Ministry. Up to then it had been subordinated since 1967 the US traffic Ministry. Before it it was part of the navy of the USA, whose direct command the Coast Guard can be subordinated only in the Kriegsfall, with Kriegsgefahr or with national state of emergency on instruction of the US president. The Wahlspruch of the United States Coast Guard is Semper paratus (lat.: "All time ready ").
Commander of the Coast Guard is at present admiral Thomas H. Collins.
The United States Coast Guard - USCG (coast guard of the USA) became on 28 January 1915 by the pool of Revenue Cutter service - revenue cutter service and Life Saving service - distress emergency service in an educated manner. The revenue cutter service was set up 1780 on resolution of the congress of the USA as Revenue navy - to tariff navy to the fight against smugglers and Piraten at the American east coast. After establishment of the US Navy in the year 1789 the Revenue navy was resumed as Revenue Cutter service.
The first instruction of the USCG was first with the entrance of the USA into the First World War in the year 1917 the case. 15 ships and 5,200 men of the Coast Guard participated in the First World War and were among other things for tasks of escort and assigned with the submarine hunt. After the war it was a major task of the American coast guard to fight the liquor smuggling during the Prohibition in the USA from 1920 to 1933. In addition it received speedboats and the US Navy made available 25 destroyers. In the year 1939 the Lighthouse service - lighthouse service and the office OF navy Inspection and navigation - supervision, control and admission authority for the handels and fishery shipping of the Coast Guard were transferred. Thus all maritime authorities of the USA under a roof were together calm.
In the Second World War the coast guard was subordinated to the US Navy starting from 1941 again and participated in the fights in the Atlantic and Pacific. The ship existence increased during the war on 802 units over 21 m length. The personnel status became larger on about 171,200 men. The Coast Guard made personnel available for 351 war and auxiliary ships of the US Navy as well as for 288 landing and cargo boats of the US-Army. To the task of the Coast Guard the escort protection belonged in the Atlantic and at the American east coast. Twelve German submarines were sunk by it, but them suffered also own loss after 1945 notice the coast guard again all sea-police and tariff-technical tasks in the territorial waters, ports and lakes of the USA. In addition it controls the adherence to of the environmental and fishery protection. It operates the Betonnung of waters, the beacons and the ice-breaker service. It is responsible for sea-weather service, distress rescue, salvage assistance, ice control and ice warning service. With all it examines newly built ships the safety devices. Further emphasis is at present the fight against drug smuggling, the terrorism and the illegal immigration.
In the Korea war the Coast Guard was just as used as in the Viet Nam war, where as well as she was involved with 31 units in the monitoring of the vietnamesischen coast logistic and took over tasks of transportation. the US Department of Defense and the US traffic Ministry an agreement, which already merges the coast guard in peace times more strongly into the territorial defense, signed 1984. Them are now responsibly for submarine and mine countermeasures as well as the escort protection and the port and Reedesicherung in the 200 nautical miles (about 370 km) spread maritime Defence Zones - maritime Verteidigungs-Zonen. The coast guard participates also in maneuvers of the US Navy and its allied ones, which the ships into the Karibik and the Baltic Sea lead. Since March 2003 it belongs to the department OF Homeland Security. In the course of the increasing foreign trade deficit as well as the rising indebtedness of the USA the American coast guard comes under rising costses. An urgently needed renewal program, which still this year (2005) starts, was stretched by two years until 2009. It is thus the only US armed service, which did not profit so far from the risen defense budget since assumption of office of the acting US president George W. Bush.
To the equipment also airplanes and helicopters belong to the coast guard beside ships and boats of different sizes. For the training of the officers and NCOs it maintains own mechanisms, as for example with '' the "Eagle" '' (eagle) also the only sail school ship of the USA in full swing.
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