DISCOVERING OUR MISSIONS
Semper Paratus - Always Ready.
That is your Coast Guard's motto.
When an average day includes saving 15 lives, assisting 114 people in distress, seizing $2.4 million worth of illegal drugs, conducting 122 security boardings and guiding 2,557 ships in and out of port - you'd better believe we are ready for anything. We are a military service whose usual theater of operation is the United States, but we'll go anywhere we are needed to defend our nation's freedoms at sea and on land. We operate during times of peace and times of war.
Our five primary missions are:
NATIONAL DEFENSEPROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES
MARITIME SAFETY
MARITIME SECURITY
MARITIME MOBILITY
