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Posted by: Merlin
- The US Coast Guard falls under the Department of Homeland Security and not the Department of Defense, which is why the have law enforcement powers both in and outside of the United States.
A belated response, but despite its administrative status within DHS, the Coast Guard is at all times, in peace and in war, a uniformed service branch of the US Armed Forces, and Guardsmen are subject to the UCMJ. It equally was so when it was previously administered by the Department of Transportation and before that within the Department of the Treasury. Its law enforcement powers don't draw from its administrative position within DHS (several DHS agencies and offices, such as FEMA, don't have a primary law enforcement mission), but rather from the authority granted to it by Congress in 14 USC.
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Posted: 23/03/2019 5:42 pm.







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