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===U.S. Coast Guard===
{{main|United States Coast Guard}}
[[File:USCG cutters Hamilton and Flores -c.jpg|right|thumb| {{USCGC|Hamilton|WMSL-753}} sailing alongside the {{USCGC|William Flores|WPC-1103}}]]

The [[United States Coast Guard]] (USCG) is the United States Armed Forces' [[maritime security]], maritime [[search and rescue]], and [[maritime law enforcement]] force. It was first established in 1790 as the [[United States Revenue Cutter Service|United States Revenue-Marine]] and consists of the Regular Coast Guard and the [[United States Coast Guard Reserve|Coast Guard Reserve]].

Although it has always been one of the six military branches, the Coast Guard is organized under the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] under the leadership of the [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|secretary of Homeland Security]] and the [[United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security|deputy secretary of Homeland Security]]. During times of war, the U.S. Coast Guard can be transferred to the [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/14/103|title=14 U.S. Code § 103 – Department in which the Coast Guard operates|website=LII / Legal Information Institute}}</ref> The Coast Guard itself is led by the [[commandant of the Coast Guard]] and [[Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard|vice commandant of the Coast Guard]], both [[admiral (United States)|admiral]]s advised by the [[master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uscg.mil/alwaysready/|title=United States Coast Guard – Always Ready|website=www.uscg.mil}}</ref>

[[File:U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Security Response Team USNS Sisler 2006.jpg|thumb|A Coast Guard [[Maritime Safety and Security Team|Maritime Security Response team]] executing a boarding action from an [[MH-60 Jayhawk]] helicopter]]

The Coast Guard has six major operational mission programs, through which it executes its 11 statutory missions:<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.uscg.mil/About/Missions/|title=About U.S. Coast Guard Missions|website=Uscg.mil}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
* Maritime law enforcement
* Maritime response
* Maritime prevention
* Maritime transport system management
* Maritime security operations
* Defense operations

[[Maritime law enforcement]] operations focus on protecting the United States maritime borders and assuring its maritime sovereignty. The Coast Guard conducts operations to suppress violations of U.S. law at sea, including counter-illegal migration and transnational organized crime operations. Codified missions executed under the maritime law enforcement program include drug interdiction, migrant interdiction, living marine resources, and other law enforcement.<ref name="auto2"/>

Maritime response operations see the Coast Guard conducting search-and-rescue operations and rescuing mariners responding to maritime disasters. Codified missions include search and rescue and marine environmental protection (response activities).<ref name="auto2"/>

[[File:221697.jpg|thumb|upright|Coast Guard aviation [[MH-60 Jayhawk]] helicopter with a rescue swimmer]]

Maritime prevention operations prevent marine casualties and property losses, minimize security risks, and protect the marine environment. The Coast Guard does so by developing and enforcing federal regulations, conducting safety and security inspections, and analyzing port security risk assessments. Codified missions include ports, waterways, and coastal security, marine safety, and marine environmental protection (protection activities).<ref name="auto2"/>

Maritime transport system management ensures a safe, secure, and environmentally sound waterways system. Codified missions include maintaining aids to navigation and ice operations.<ref name="auto2" />

Maritime security operations include activities to detect, deter, prevent, and disrupt terrorist attacks, and other criminal acts in the U.S. maritime domain. This includes the execution of anti-terrorism, response, and select recovery operations. This mission performs the operational element of the Coast Guard's Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security mission and complements its Maritime Response and Prevention efforts. Codified missions include ports, waterways, and coastal security (response activities).<ref name="auto2"/>

Coast Guard Defense Operations deploy the Coast Guard globally under the Department of Defense's unified combatant commands, where it operates under the joint force maritime component commands. Codified missions include defense readiness.<ref name="auto2"/>

====Coast Guard commands====
The U.S. Coast Guard is organized into two area commands that cover the entire globe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uscg.mil/Units/Organization/#cyber|title=United States Coast Guard > Units > Organization|website=www.uscg.mil}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable"
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!colspan=2|Name
!Mission
!Headquarters
|-
|[[File:USCG - Commandant's Staff Badge.png|75px]]
|[[Commandant of the Coast Guard|Coast Guard Headquarters]] (USCG HQ) 
| Coast Guard service headquarters led by the [[commandant of the Coast Guard]]. 
|[[Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building]], Washington D.C.
|-
!colspan=4| Operating forces
|-
|[[File:Commander Atlantic Area Crest.png|75px]]
|[[Coast Guard Atlantic Area]] (LANTAREA)
|Conducts Coast Guard operations east of the Rocky Mountains, to include the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
|Coast Guard Station Portsmouth, Virginia
|-
|[[File:USCG Pacarea.png|75px]]
|[[Coast Guard Pacific Area]] (PACAREA)
|Conducts Coast Guard operations west of the Rocky Mountains, to include the Indo-Pacific region.
|[[Coast Guard Island|Coast Guard Base Alameda]], California
|-
|[[File:Coast Guard Cyber Command.png|75px]]
|[[Coast Guard Cyber Command]] (CGCYBER)
|Conducts Coast Guard cyber operations and collaborates with [[United States Cyber Command]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cybercom.mil/Media/News/Article/3247521/cyber-101-us-coast-guard-cyber-command-cgcyber/https://www.cybercom.mil/Media/News/Article/3247521/cyber-101-us-coast-guard-cyber-command-cgcyber/|title=CYBER 101: US Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER)|website=U.S. Cyber Command}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|Washington D.C.
|-
|[[File:Seal of the United States Coast Guard Reserve.svg|75px]]
|[[United States Coast Guard Reserve|U.S. Coast Guard Reserve]] (USCGR)
|Oversees and maintains Coast Guard reserve forces
|[[Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building]], Washington D.C.
|}