Encl (1) to COMDTINST 16010.8
Workload Data and Projected FY99 Activity Levels to Achieve
National Defense Performance Goals
defense to include mission areas that sustain the Nation's economic,
social, and environmental well-being. The Coast Guard - whether
interdicting drug smugglers, conducting Persian Gulf boardings in support
of a United Nations blockade, participating in naval warfare exercises,
stopping illegal migrants bound for the United States, or leading the
cleanup of a major oil spill - is essential to sustain the vital national
security interests of the United States.
Under 14 USC, the Coast Guard is required to "maintain a state of
readiness to function as a specialized service of the Navy in time of
war," and specifically authorized to assist the Department of Defense
(DOD) in performance of duties for which the Coast Guard is especially
qualified.
The Secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of
Transportation signed a memorandum of agreement in October 1995
acknowledging that Coast Guard active duty and reserve components provide
interception operations, environmental defense operations and deployed
port security and defense operations. These Coast Guard capabilities were
demonstrated during Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti) where Coast Guard
aircraft, cutters, and port security units played a vital role. The Coast
Guard continues to play a role supporting national interests in the
Persian Gulf. In FY97 a Coast Guard cutter conducting maritime intercept
operations to enforce the United Nations embargo against Iraq repatriated
a vessel back to Iraq for the offload of illegal oil. A similar
deployment is scheduled to occur in FY98.
The Coast Guard also plays a key role in Maritime Defense Zone (MDZ)
operations. Coast Guard field commanders conducting MDZ operations are
components of the U.S. Navy defense structure. These operations were
formalized in a March 1984 memorandum of agreement between the Secretaries
of the Department of Defense and Department of Transportation. The MDZ
mission is to provide harbor defense, port security, and coastal sea
control of littoral areas employing expeditionary forces composed of Coast
Guard and Navy active and reserve units.
The Coast Guard is one of the five armed services and a full partner on
multi-missioned ships, aircraft, and shore units bring complementary and
unique capabilities to this team. The Coast Guard's defense missions are
intertwined among its Maritime Safety, Maritime Law Enforcement, and
contribute to the Coast Guard's unique niche within the national defense
not concentrate primarily on national defense. However, the Coast Guard's
not duplicated in the Department of Defense, and therefore the Coast Guard
may be called on to conduct these normally peacetime roles in support of
the National Military Strategy.
For example, the Coast Guard's involvement in Operations Restore Democracy
and Uphold Democracy in Haiti included 1,000 personnel in multiple air,
floating, and shore units which provided search and rescue coverage for
the U.S. Army and Marine Corps helicopters transiting from the United
States to the theater. The Coast Guard coordinated theater port security
and harbor defense using 2 port security units with 185 people, 1 harbor
defense command with 19 people, 5 law enforcement detachments with 26
people, 6 marine safety officers and 3 navigation advisors. Using 5
cutters with 500 people, the Coast Guard restored and established aids to
navigation and provided logistics support. Using 7-8 cutters with 600
people, the Coast Guard conducted simultaneous alien migration
interdiction operations in Operation Able Manner off the Haitian Coast.
All five of the nation's armed services brought unique national defense
capabilities to these operations, but this is most true for the Coast
Guard. There is no substitute for Coast Guard mission capabilities within
DoD.
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