Our nation today demands more from the U.S. Coast Guard, the nation’s oldest maritime force, than at any time in the service’s history. Coast Guard personnel and assets are conducting counterpiracy missions in the Gulf of Aden, protecting Iraqi petroleum pipelines and shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf, and shouldering the load in the government’s response efforts to the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, the largest oil spill in the nation’s history. The Coast Guard remains heavily engaged in all of these theatres in addition to its traditional and better-known search and rescue, drug interdiction, and port security missions.
The accelerated pace and scope of these domestic and international missions is the new norm for the Coast Guard. But if the Obama administration and Congress expect the Coast Guard to maintain its current level of operations effectively, they must begin providing the service with the commensurate leadership and resources necessary to transform and modernize the service. Failure to correct the current imbalance between responsibilities and capabilities will further erode the service’s already dwindling ability to carry out its statutory missions, and deny it the ability to protect this nation against 21st century challenges.
The Homeland Security Act was passed on November 25, 2002, combining the efforts, authorities and powers of over twenty federal agencies into a single entity. Among the agencies included are the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Customs Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and many others. All agencies combined were given federal authority to act in and among themselves as one entity to insure the safety and security of the United States borders.
The Coast Guard has long touted its unofficial motto “doing more with less.” Over the past decade, especially since the attacks of 9/11, it has become an unsustainable reality for a service with multimission responsibilities, encompassing operations that include maritime safety, security, law enforcement, and environmental stewardship. All of these responsibilities have expanded and been in greater demand since the attacks of September
. In short, our nation relies on the U.S. Coast Guard more today than ever before. According to the Coast Guard’s Master Chief Petty Officer Charles Bowen, the USCG is increasingly strained because “the men and women of the United States Coast Guard are doing more than we’ve ever asked them to do in more places than we’ve ever asked them to go.”1 Despite this increased demand, the Coast Guard has a dramatically smaller operations and acquisitions budget, as well as a much smaller number of service men and women than any other military service. By way of comparison, the Coast Guard has fewer people than the New York police force.
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