On Oct 3, 5:00 am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:16:52 -0700, Tim wrote:
On Oct 2, 7:08 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

National Defense: Defend the nation as one of the five U.S. armed services.

"one of the five U.S. armed services?"

But technically are they an "armed service"?

Yes.

Read up on the history.

OK.

Wondering because they fall under the Dept. of the Treasury, and not
the Dept. of Defense.

Neither. Homeland Security.

The USCG has been pased around and has worn many hats, I forgot that
they had been trasfered out of the USDOT and now to Homeland Security
just 5 years ago.

In the cold war days I asked a Navy recruiter a hypothetical question
sort of like the days of Red October

"OK, supposingly a soviet sub was found in the mouth of the
Mississippi Delta, then would the Coast Guard fall under the Dept of
the Navy?

he said: "I would certianly hope so!"

The above was stated in about 1978 well before the 2003 transfer

My Dad was USCG right before WWII and when it began, all assets were
transferred to the Navy as I understood it.

Thanks for his service!