Are the Coast Guard the only branch that really defends America today?
>>28306987
Someone's gotta prevent us for those scary Mexicans
>>28306987
what is the national guard
>>28306987
>interdict <2% of drugs to give politicians photo-ops
>defends America
lolno
They rescue people and stop drugs from coming in. I wouldn't count that as defending America.
> law enforcement =/= defending America.
When they go back to the dod then we'll talk.
>>28307021
>conduct thousands of rescue operations a year
>interdict more taco smugglers than any other group (looking at you DEA, fucking 70 odd thousand lbs of coke to the USCGs 147,000. Fucking useless)
>Remove taco from the US waters
God bless the US Coast Guard
>>28307060
>not defending America in any way
chris costa pls go
>>28307060
>conduct thousands of rescue operations a year
Do you have a source on that? Thousands just seem a lot.
>>28307460
I do, in 2014 the USCG responded to over 17,000 Search and Rescue cases, saved over 3,000 lives.
Also interdicted over 7000 tacos trying to cross the border in boats.
Warning, Google link also PDF. Apologies for shit link, on phone.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.uscg.mil/top/about/doc/uscg_snapshot.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiJ2KCfuvXJAhUD6iYKHR61CL8QFgguMAE&usg=AFQjCNFxAd3Ig3SBxe8xgFAjQ6BZB6UO9Q&sig2=Gd2T4valHwxCNnguNQJ5cw
>>28307086
>stop drug smugglers
>stop drugs
>stop illegal immigrants
Not defending America how?
>>28307530
rescue swimmers literally have balls of steel
>>28307530
Very impressive. I didn't know they did so much in rescue work.
>tfw your vision is shit and you will never be a rescue swimmer in Alaska
This is a heavy feel
The coast guard is the only military service that actually protects Americans since the 40s. Everything else is just a tool of the government to kill Arabs.
>>28307586
If you've ever read a USCG bio from before the war on drugs that's all they did.
Friends with USCG lifer, was in for about 10 years before war on drugs, says that the saddest day in his life was when he got put on a cutter doing interdiction work.
>>28307628
See if uncle Sam or insurance will pay for corrective surgery. Fair warning, anything for less than... 500 an eye has good odds of fucking up or relapsing in 5 years.
>>28307012
>what is the national guard
mostly? American soldiers on tour in Bumfuckistan.
>>28306987
USCG fag here
2014 stats
Responded to over 17,000 Search and Rescue cases, saved 3,430 lives and more than $47 million in property.
Removed 90,997 kilograms of cocaine and 108,535 pounds of marijuana bound toward the U.S. via the Transit Zone; worth over an estimated $3 billion dollars in wholesale value.
Continued the deployment of six Patrol Boats and 400 personnel to protect Iraqi critical maritime oil infrastructure and train Iraqi naval forces.
Conducted 189 escorts and patrols to support 67 domestic U.S. military cargo out-loads.
Conducted 25,393 container inspections, 3,643 facility safety and marine pollution related inspections, and 1,366 cargo transfer monitors to ensure safety and environmental stewardship of the maritime domain.
Conducted 623 boardings of high interest vessels designated as posing a greater-than-normal risk to the United States.
Interdicted more than 7,747 undocumented migrants attempting to illegally enter the United States.
Conducted 4,891 safety and security exams on vessels operating on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
Completed over 8,200 Safety of Life At Sea safety exams on foreign vessels.
Conducted 5,856 investigations for reportable marine casualties involving commercial vessels.
Conducted over 43,700 recreational vessel boardings, issued over 11,000 citations, and visited 426 recreational boat manufacturers to provide education and ensure compliance
>>28307954
Conducted over 5,928 fisheries conservation boardings, encountering 149 significant fishery violations
Conducted 102 boardings of foreign vessels to suppress IUU fishing on the high seas and in the EEZs of partner nations.
Facilitated, with the Canadian Coast Guard, the safe movement of 30 million tons of dry bulk (iron ore, coal, stone, cement) and 7,960,000 BBLs of liquid (gasoline, diesel, heating oil) cargoes during the ice season.
Responded to 8,905 pollution incident reports.
Managed 400 federal cleanup projects under the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund (OSLTF) and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) fund, totaling $25 million.
Assessed the effectiveness of anti-terrorism measures in over 169 port facilities in 57 of our maritime trading partners.
Screened over 212,000 vessels, including over 126,000 commercial vessels and 30 million crewmembers and passengers prior to arrival in U.S. ports.
Issued 51 permits for bridge projects valued at $10.3 billion.
CGC POLAR STAR conducted the first deployment to McMurdo, Antarctica in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) in seven years. POLAR STAR escorted one tanker and one cargo resupply ship through Antarctic ice. In addition, the cutter assisted in the resupply of the aviation fuel depot at Marble Point, Antarctica.
Identified 1,546 icebergs and assisted North Atlantic mariners make more than 2,200 commercial transits around iceberg laden waters during an above average ice year.
Maintained over 49,000 aids to navigation, including over 15,000 unlighted buoys marking the US Western Rivers System. Serviced 15,125 aids and responded to and corrected over 7,600 discrepancies providing a 98.2% Aid Availability Rate to ensure the safe transit of $3.2T worth of commerce transiting over 25,000 miles of U. S. waterways.
Established 52 Automatic Identification System (AIS) aids to navigation (ATON).
>>28307541
because none of those things threaten the country other than in the feverish minds of politicians and their toadies
>>28307954
>literally a copy paste of the info posted above
Be more of a faggot
>>28307733
Hey they brought law and order back after L.A, Baltimore, Ferguson riots and Katira
>>28306987
Also the Navy is the most critical and is defending is even when it's peacetime. The carrot and stick strategy we use with the rest of the world over shipping lanes is fantastic. Sure we'll pay more in taxes but it keeps us from ever being challenged
>>28308344
I didn't check that link out, and I took the extra step to actually post the info instead of provide a link.
>Be more of a sperg
>>28307993
>illegals
Trump will have his way with you soon juan.
they need more icebreakers desu
>>28308673
>Implying we'll need icebreakers at this point Merry July on Christmas /pol/
