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The '''United States Coast Guard''' is one of the [[Yanks With Tanks|nation's Armed Forces]], right up there with The Army, The Navy, The Air Force, and [[Semper Fi|The Marines]]. Despite this, most people forget that it even exists. Part of that is its small size: with 42,000 active duty members, it is only slightly larger than the New York City Police Department. Another is that while it is a military organization, it's not part of the Department of Defense: depending on the era, it has been under the auspices of the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Transportation, or, most recently, the Department of Homeland Security. With about 40,000 men and women serving, the Coast Guard is something of a [[Little Miss Badass]] to the Navy's bigger, wealthier forces. And the CG is covering the whole damn country. As such, the Coast Guard has a longstanding, mostly friendly rivalry with the Navy, wherein Coast Guardsmen like to boast that they're better, tougher sailors than the Navy's denizens.
The upshot is that the other four branches get to pool their advertising budget on unified prime-time TV spots that chant, "Army! Navy! Air Force! Marines!"—while the Coast Guard is relegated to late-night TV.
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Beginning in the 1980s, the Coast Guard's role in drug interdiction took on renewed importance. Today, much of the public perceives that as the Coast Guard's main role, with the help of many other organizations and the Navy.
[http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091015130425/http://www.uscg.mil/top/about/ By law, the Coast Guard has 11 missions (listed in order of percentage of operating expenses)]:
* Ports, waterways, and coastal security
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* In a throwaway line from ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'', Marty explains away his "life preserver" vest to his future mother and grandmother by saying that he is in the Coast Guard. Later, Doc uses a mind-reading helmet to incorrectly guess that Marty is a member of the "Coast Guard Youth Auxiliary."
* The Coast Guard gets a lot of screen time in ''[[Bad Boys]] 2'', which fits with the bad-guys of the film being drug dealers. We see them at the start when a cutter loses a Go-Fast, then again later when Coast Guard helicopters stop another one. They even help secretly insert an assault team into Cuban waters.
* [[Coast Guard (film)|''Coast Guard'' (film)]], a 1939 American film starring [[Randolph Scott]], [[Frances Dee]] and [[Ralph Bellamy]]
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