My generally favorable appraisal of the CG is getting precarious.
The CG takes orders from Janet Napolitano, and she takes them from Zero.
It shouldn’t be. The USCG is one of the finest services that exist.
ABC news is trying to smear them with the headline.
You also need to know that their primary mission is to save lives, so boats are inspected for safety.
The mixing of their mission to save lives with an EPA instigated oil cleanup chores confuses people and makes them a target for an animosity that they do not deserve. They have been a conventient scapegoat for the last two administrations and good men, doing their duty have been forced to take the fall for oil spills caused by federal law allowing broken down chinese ships with no english speakers in their crew to talk to the pilot boat to enter our harbors and spill their fuel.
The administration is despicable for setting the Coast Guard up and then not allowing them to do the job as they need to do it.
The administration has done the same thing to our armed forces in Afghanistan, forcing them to use UN rules of engagement so they cannot win, which puts their lives into even more danger.
Any animosity you have should be pointed at the people in the government who have forced the whole mess on us with their rotten green socialist anti american anti military agenda funded by the global corporations who are out to destroy our economy in order to redistribute our wealth around the world.