Good post. I asked Grok to detail overseas service by Coast Guard members:
The United States Coast Guard members serve overseas regularly.
- Deployments occur ongoing in regions like the Indo-Pacific and Arctic.
- Recent examples include 2025-2026 operations.
- Cutter Midgett completed a 76-day deployment in Oceania in early 2025.
- USCGC Stratton joined Quad Sail in the Pacific in July 2025.
- Forces support Indo-Pacific exercises like RIMPAC.
- Icebreakers challenge foreign vessels in the Arctic in 2025-2026.
- Personnel conduct maritime security boardings in international waters.
- The Coast Guard maintains a global presence on all seven continents.
- Last major combat deployment was during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003+).
Ongoing missions include law enforcement and international partnerships.