{"id":6500,"date":"2000-10-17T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2000-10-17T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2013-11-15T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T14:15:41","slug":"coast-guard-part-of-national-readiness-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/coast-guard-part-of-national-readiness-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Part of National Readiness Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Issue Brief<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On Sept. 27, the House Armed Services Committee held hearings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ascertain the state of military readiness. Absent from the hearings was a representative of the Coast Guard. Even though the service is part of the Transportation Department rather than the Defense Department, the Coast Guard is a key part of our national security, a point highlighted by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) in a statement on the floor of the House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether it is interdicting drugs and illegal immigrants along our nation&#8217;s shore or serving with our naval forces in the Balkans and the [Persian] Gulf, the Coast Guard is a vital part of our overall national-security policy,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>But although the Coast Guard is the world&#8217;s seventh largest navy, it is ranked nearly last in the relative age of its vessels. Of the world&#8217;s 41 recognized navies, only Mexico and the Philippines have older fleets. Years of underfunding &#8212; and ever-increasing numbers of missions &#8212; have resulted in a Coast Guard with outdated equipment and a chronic shortage of spare parts, both in the air and at sea. These shortages have occurred even as the nation&#8217;s enemies, particularly drug smugglers, invest huge sums of money in the latest equipment designed to counter the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The disconnect between missions and money &#8212; the service recently was unable to buy enough fuel to sustain its equipment &#8212; forced the Coast Guard to cut back its operations by 10% in all but lifesaving missions. The scaled-back operations, such as environmental enforcement, drug seizures, migrant interdiction and &#8220;cooperative engagement&#8221; missions overseas, are as much a part of national security as the activities of the other services. For that reason, the Coast Guard deserves to be part of the nation&#8217;s military readiness debate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 27, the House Armed Services Committee held hearings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ascertain the state of military readiness. 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