The Commandant resently completed the 2017 State of the Coast Guard address. You can watch it here. You can read the text in pdf format here.
Chuck Hill's CG Blog
The Commandant resently completed the 2017 State of the Coast Guard address. You can watch it here. You can read the text in pdf format here.
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
Navy League picks up the cry that thttp://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20170317-StateofCG.htmlhe CG is a military branch.
We would have more credibility is we were better armed.
From USNI: https://news.usni.org/2017/03/17/zukunft-cutter-acquisition-on-track-but-uscg-still-lacks-capacity-to-meet-demand-signal
“Despite a growing signal from partner countries and combatant commanders that they want more U.S. Coast Guard presence, “there were 580 events that got a free pass” last year. The intelligence was there to investigate, Zukunft said, but there was an “issue of capacity” in available Coast Guard aircraft and ships.”