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Sailors Die at Sea While USCG Drone Program Remains Hard Aground

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Re: Sailors Die at Sea While USCG Drone Program Remains Hard Aground

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Post by mieseratte »

ubernostrum wrote: post #10
mieseratte wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different organizations, different budgets, different concerns. Maintaining some semblance of Rule of Law by enforcing our nations' laws is fine and should be done. Please don't use the comments to virtue signal.

Maintaining some semblance of Rule of Law by enforcing our nations' laws is fine and should be done. OK, let's start with those sanctions against Russia.

How about we do both?

Or do you only care about your specific wants because you're obviously trying your virtue signal your #Resistance allegiance?

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Post by dragonwriter »

rch wrote: post #4
sillyquiet wrote: post #3

My dad was in the United States Marine Corps, and he used to joke that the Marines were so poor equipment-acquisition-wise they got the hand-me-downs from the Army. It has been my personal experiences that the Coast Guard is even worse off as far as the funding they get versus the vitally important life saving (and you know, coast guarding) missions they are supposed to accomplish. There have been a blizzard of radar…

My impression is that the Coast Guard has been somewhat militarized in the drug war, such that any request for equipment to help "save" people has to be in quotes.

> My impression is that the Coast Guard has been somewhat militarized

The USCG is, and has always been, overtly one of the (currently) five service branches of the US armed forces. I'm not sure what it would mean to “militarize” something that is already fully military.

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Post by ebikelaw »

tastyfreeze wrote: post #8
rch wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My impression is that the Coast Guard has been somewhat militarized in the drug war, such that any request for equipment to help "save" people has to be in quotes.

USCG has been militarized since it was formed in 1915.

The Revenue Cutter service, half of what became the USCG in 1915, dates from 1790. It was an armed service from that time.
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