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Originally Posted by ScottC
Yes you are, the Coast guard are specifically trained to guard borders
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No they are specifically trained for Seaport and Harbor Security (I Underlined and Bolded for your Selective reading Pleasure)
On 29 January 2003, General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was asked, "The Coast Guard announced today [it is] sending eight cutters, 600 people, to the Persian Gulf, which I understand is the first time they have been dispatched to a combat zone since the Vietnam War. What's the thinking behind that, and what's their mission going to be?" General Myers answered,
"For the Coast Guard, primarily for port and harbor and waterway security. That's what they do best."
This also from the US Coast Guard Web Site...its there Mission Statement
"The United States Coast Guard is a military, multi-mission, maritime service and one of the nation’s five Armed Services. Its mission is to protect the public, the environment, and U.S. economic interests –
in the nation’s ports and waterways, along the coast, on international waters, or in any maritime region as required to support national security."
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Originally Posted by ScottC
You take the CG and have them train the National guard currently deployed in Iraq to protect out borders on land.
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And this here makes sense take a unit that is specifically trained to operate on the Water and have THEM train the troops that were already trained to work on the ground. HAHAHAHAHAA!!
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Originally Posted by ScottC
And I guess you don;t think drugs come through our southern borders right! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
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Drugs come into this country by Air, Sea, and Land. Weakening one area to strengthen another does absolutely no good.