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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the United States military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its duties. It is the largest coast guard in the world, rivaling the capabilities and size of most navies. The U.S. Coast Guard is a humanitarian and security service. It protects the United States' borders and economic and security interests abroad; and defends its sovereignty by safeguarding sea lines of communication and commerce across U.S. territorial waters and its Exclusive Economic Zone. Due to ever-expanding risk imposed by transnational threats through the maritime and cyber domains, the U.S. Coast Guard is at any given time deployed to and operating on all seven continents and in cyberspace to enforce its mission. Like its United States Navy sibling, the U.S. Coast Guard maintains a global presence with permanently-assigned personnel throughout the world and forces routinely deploying to both littoral and blue-water regions. The U.S. Coast Guard's adaptive, multi-mission "white hull" fleet is leveraged as a force of both diplomatic soft power and humanitarian and security assistance over the more overtly confrontational nature of "gray hulled" warships. As a humanitarian service, it saves tens of thousands of lives a year at sea and in U.S. waters, and provides emergency response and disaster management for a wide range of human-made and natural catastrophic incidents in the U.S. and throughout the world. The U.S. Coast Guard operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during peacetime. During times of war, it can be transferred in whole or in part to the U.S. Department of the Navy under the Department of Defense by order of the U.S. President or by act of Congress. Prior to its transfer to Homeland Security, it operated under the Department of Transportation from 1967 to 2003 and the Department of the Treasury from its inception until 1967. A congressional authority transfer to the Navy has only happened once: in 1917, during World War I. By the time the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, the U.S. Coast Guard had already been transferred to the Navy by President Franklin Roosevelt. Created by Congress as the Revenue-Marine on 4 August 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton, it is the oldest continuously operating naval service of the United States. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton headed the Revenue-Marine, whose original purpose was collecting customs duties at U.S. seaports. By the 1860s, the service was known as the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and the term Revenue-Marine gradually fell into disuse. The modern U.S. Coast Guard was formed by a merger of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915, under the Department of the Treasury. In 1939, the U.S. Lighthouse Service was also merged into the U.S. Coast Guard. As one of the country's six armed services, the U.S. Coast Guard has deployed to support and fight every major U.S. war since 1790, from the Quasi-War with France to the Global War on Terrorism. As of December 2021, the U.S. Coast Guard's authorized force strength is 44,500 active duty personnel and 7,000 reservists. The service's force strength also includes 8,577 full-time civilian federal employees and 31,000 uniformed volunteers of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. The service maintains an extensive fleet of roughly 250 coastal and ocean-going cutters, patrol ships, buoy tenders, tugs, and icebreakers; as well as nearly 2,000 small boats and specialized craft. It also maintains an aviation division consisting of more than 200 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. While the U.S. Coast Guard is the second smallest of the U.S. military service branches in terms of membership, the service by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force. Mission Role The Coast Guard carries out three basic roles, which are further subdivided into eleven statutory missions. The three roles are: Maritime safety Maritime security Maritime stewardship With a decentralized organization and much responsibility placed on even the most junior personnel, the Coast Guard is frequently lauded for its quick responsiveness and adaptability in a broad range of emergencies. In a 2005 article in Time magazine following Hurricane Katrina, the author wrote, "the Coast Guard's most valuable contribution to [a military effort when catastrophe hits] may be as a model of flexibility, and most of all, spirit." Wil Milam, a rescue swimmer from Alaska told the magazine, "In the Navy, it was all about the mission. Practicing for war, training for war. In the Coast Guard, it was, take care of our people and the mission will take care of itself." Missions The eleven statutory missions as defined by law are divided into homeland security missions and non-homeland security missions: Non-homeland security missions Ice operations, including the International Ice Patrol Living marine resources (fisheries law enforcement) Marine environmental protection Marine safety Aids to navigation Search and rescue Homeland security missions Defense readiness Maritime law enforcement Migrant interdiction Ports, waterways and coastal security (PWCS) Drug interdiction Search and rescue The U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue (CG-SAR) is one of the Coast Guard's best-known operations. 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. Both agencies maintain rescue coordination centers to coordinate this effort, and have responsibility for both military and civilian search and rescue. 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. National Response Center 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. 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 Ma.... 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The Finest Hours
Michael J. Tougias & Casey ShermanThe story behind the major motion picture from Disneystarring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleckwritten by a recognized master of the genre“a blockbuster account of tragedy a...
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The Barque of Saviors
Russell DrummThe “remarkable story” of a tall ship’s history in WWII and beyondand the sailors who have inhabited it, both German and American (Booklist). Hamburg, 1936: A splendid three...
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Crossing the Bar
M. L. BuchmanCarlos Torres agreed to guest host his aunt’s Crossing the Bar podcast on a whim. That’s how he’d run most of his life to date, so why not. Petty officer Sarah Goodwin fought...
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Christmas Over the Bar
M. L. BuchmanUS Coast Guard Rescue Pilot Sly Beaumont lives to fly. Saving lives off the treacherous Columbia River Bar rates as a really cool bonus. As are the fine ladies who flock to the uni...
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Deadliest Sea
Kalee ThompsonDeadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska...
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My Last Skirt
Lynda DurrantJennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in order to help support her impoverished Irish family with a shepherd’s wages. Then her arrival in America confirmed her belief ...
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U.S. Naval Institute on the U.S. Coast Guard
Thomas J. CutlerThe U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the...
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Fire on the Beach
David WrightFrom the Civil War to the turn of the century, this is the truelife story of the original coast guard, and one crew of African American heroes who fought storms and saved lives off...
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Hear the Wind Blow
Mary Downing HahnOn a cold, snowy night, Haswell Magruder makes a decision that will have a profound effect on his own life as well as the lives of all those he loves. A wounded Confederate soldier...
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Lifeboat Love
M. L. BuchmanAfter failing to land themselves Coast Guard husbands, local women Tabby and Suzy set off from Astoria, Oregon to find a future of their own making. Rescue Swimmer Tad and hi...
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Frozen in Time
Mitchell ZuckoffNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York...
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Navigation Rules
U.S. Coast GuardThis Navigation Rules book contains a complete copy of the Inland and International Navigation Rules as presented by the United States Coast Guard. In addition, all Notice to Marin...
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The U.S. Naval Institute on the U.S. Coast Guard
Jim DolbowAs part of the Wheel Book series, The U.S. Naval Institute on the U.S. Coast Guard provides professional sea service officers with insights into the roles, mission, and history of ...
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Blindfold Game
Dana StabenowIn Thailand, two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them, a small team of mercenaries, and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port. It's frighteningly ...
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Rescues from the Sky
Lee F. WaltersRescues from the Sky features the true stories of the US Coast Guard Aviation Medical Rescue Service as seen through the eyes of a wetbehindtheears flight surgeon fresh out of trai...
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Remembering Vera
Patricia PolaccoFrom beloved author Patricia Polacco comes the heartwarming and true story of Vera, an amazing dog who was found as a stray by the US Coast Guard, moved into the San Francisco Bay ...
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Minding the Helm
Kevin P. GilheanyAs a boy growing up in New York City, Kevin P. Gilheany had two dreams: to join the Coast Guard, and to play the bagpipes. But by the time he finished high school he was overweight...
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U.S. Coast Guard Incident Management Handbook
United States Government, US Coast GuardThis United States Coast Guard USCG Commandant Publication, COMDTPUB P3120.17B U.S. Coast Guard Incident Management Handbook, is designed to assist Coast Guard personnel in the use...
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D-Days in the Pacific With the U.S. Coast Guard
Ken WileyAn awardwinning, personal account of US amphibious operations in WWII by a veteran Coast Guardsmanillustrated with photographs and drawings.During World War II, Ken Wiley was a Coa...
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Flying Beyond the Bar
M. L. Buchmana US Coast Guard romance story US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Harvey Whitman lives to save lives. The unit’s motto, “That Others May Live”, defines his life’s goal perfectly. Helico...
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Ten Hours Until Dawn
Michael J. TougiasIn the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immedia...
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Character in Action
Donald T. Phillips & James M Loy USCG (Ret.)How does the U.S. Coast Guard create, instill, and maintain leadership throughout a 40,000 member force spread across the United States? A former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard...
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Into the Storm
Tristram Korten“An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best.”Lee ChildThe ...
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Run the Storm
George Michelsen FoyIn the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary pageturner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestsellin...
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Bull Run
Paul FleischmanWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction ALA Best Book for Young Adults ALA Notable Children's BookIn this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New Yo...
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A Pale Light in the Black
K. B. WagersThe Expanse meets the Battle Room in Ender's Game as K. B. Wagers brings us the rollicking first entry in a unique science fiction series that introduces the NearEarth Orbital Guar...
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Hold Fast Through the Fire
K. B. WagersThe NearEarth Orbital Guard (NeoG)inspired by the reallife mission of the Coast Guardpatrols and protects the solar system. Now the crew of Zuma’s Ghost must contend with personnel...
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Brainstorm
Sam PerroniBrainstorm is an amazing fiveyear probe into the mysterious death of beloved movie star Natalie Wood by a reallife criminal law authority who determinedly pursued the truth in the ...
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Into the Raging Sea
Rachel SladeWINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUSTREAD BOOKS OF THE SUMMERA NE...
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Grey Wolf of Superior
John KearnsServing a twentysixyear career in the US Coast Guard, you see things develop that you know can become volatile. Being conventional, or routine, we always conduct business as usual....
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Loyalty
AviNewbery Medalist Avi explores the American Revolution from a fresh perspective in the story of a young Loyalist turned British spy navigating patriotism and personal responsibility...
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Cave Rescue Courtship
M. L. BuchmanPetty Officer Vera Chu lives her dream of serving aboard a US Coast Guard cutter. Newly assigned to patrols of the treacherous Columbia River Bar only affirms her resolve. Lieutena...
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The Hero Workouts
Carter HenryA collection of exercise routines and inspiring stories honoring the valiant men and women who gave their lives in service to their country Bell, Gallant, Pike, Legion 8, Jenn...
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The Complete US Coast Guard
M. L. BuchmanFive tales of romance and rescue. At home, the US Coast Guard, rescues thousands of civilians up and down our coasts and inland waterways. The smallest US military service also de...