Foot Guards

1. The United States Coast Guard is an organization with a rich history, heritage, and traditions. As we venture further into the future, we continue to make necessary changes and improvements to move forward. The strong leaders throughout Coast Guard history have paved the way to make us the premiere maritime service that we are today. It remains that in all of our best efforts to equip the junior enlisted ranks with leadership tools we fail to focus on our very own strong leaders and events…

words. It pleases me to say that peering back on my past I can discern the effect my father 's words had on shaping me into the person that I am today. A girl who overcame obstacles and persevered. My father has served in the United States Coast Guard for twenty years, which makes me a military child. I, like many military children didn 't get to choose this lifestyle. We were merely born into a world of separation…

Introduction Today is a day like no other that we live in. There are constant threats to our country, our way of life and to our allies. When faced with the threats today, most people automatically think of Al Qaeda and or ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/Islamic State of Iraq and Levant). This is who we are fighting on the bigger scale today. There are other threats as well and they are Lone Wolf Terrorist acting in the name of Islam here in our country, concerned attacks that could…

There were many things that surprised me when watching the film. I was surprised that for being a city under sea level, and for being a place that has a high risk of hurricanes that there was no plan for a catastrophic event like Hurricane Katrina. Another thing that surprised me was the amount of time it took the Federal Government to come and send help to those affected by the storm. All of the dead bodies, all of the people that were struggling to find a way to survive, and the destruction…

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is made up of a combination of three different United States’ programs. The first program was the U.S. Lighthouse Service. The second was the U.S. Revenue Marine (Cutter) Service. The third and final program was the U.S. Lifesaving Service. All three were combined in 1913 creating the USCG we know today. I will now discuss each of the three U.S. programs that helped create the USCG. The earliest beginnings of the USCG happened in 1789 when the Department of…

Abstract Stephen Flynn believes that there are goals of homeland security that are crucial to America’s bureaucracies and he senses that the country is wasting the chance to really protect the United States. Stephen discusses two crucial mistakes that he feels America has made and the first mistake is that he discusses is how homeland security is separated from national security. The two key intelligence agencies are not communicating. The second issue, he discusses is how our infrastructure is…

Initially, when the Department of Homeland Security was created I, along with many Americans believed its sole function was to assist in the prevention and management of future terrorist incidents. However, as time progressed, and the department became more established and reorganized it began to emphasize on; preparation, prevention and mitigation of a much wider scope of hazards (Haddow, Bullock, & Cappola, 2014). Some of that wider scope contains natural disasters in addition to the threat…

The United States Coast Guard describes the undertaking as “...one of the greatest in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard (“Bernard C. Webber, USCG”, 1).” The United States Coast Guard is a merger of five Federal agencies that were once independent, but with overlapping responsibilities. These agencies are the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service ("U.S. Coast Guard History", 1). Since this is the…

The U.S. Customs & Border Protection is responsible for maintaining border security. Their primary duty is keeping terrorists and their weapons away from the U.S. homeland. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services only responsibility is overseeing lawful immigration into the United States. The issuance of visa’s and passport is not part of their duty, but remains a responsibility of the U.S. Department of State. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also known as ICE is responsible for…

The Department of Homeland Security is an appropriate organizational design for several essential elements which are transferring immigration and naturalization service, border patrol, U.S. customs service, animal and plant health inspection service, U.S. Coastguard, and transportation security administration. The intelligence community mission is to supply the homeland security enterprise with timely intelligence information that is needed to protect, safe, resilient, and secure the United…