No Coast Guard that far away from US waters. Iran SEIZED our two small, PT-style boats from INTERNATIONAL waters and kidnapped the crew, in a BOLD demonstration of pure POWER over the Wimp of the White House. Read the 2nd comment, by Matt Bracken, linked below:
http://bit.ly/1nf3vTw
“The timeline said that last Tuesday, the crews were taking two riverine command boats, or R.C.B.s, which are typically used to patrol shallow waterways, from Kuwait to Bahrain. The boats departed Kuwait at 12:23 p.m. local time and were supposed to refuel from a Coast Guard cutter in the Persian Gulf at 5 p.m.”
Many cutters have been deployed to the Persian gulf.