On Oct 3, 5:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
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.

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

Neither. Homeland Security.

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!"

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

It also was part of the Navy during Viet Nam- Hide quoted text -

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Didn't realize that, Reg.

Thanks!