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When you look at the migration issues war ship. So I superimposed that experi- ask) who are these people? What is their now they’re yours?” (In short) there are happening today in the Mediterra- ence on what’s happening in the Aegean background? Do they pose a threat to the some policy gaps. I have offered up to nean, and all the political, the human Sea and the Mediterranean right now. United States? Are they brought back to send subject matter experts to look at the tragedy, and the maritime issues that So say it’s a U.S. Coast Guard vessel Turkey or Greece … but what if Turkey logistics behind a mass migration that, are wrapped up into this historic mi- now with 880 migrants (and you have to or Greece says, “Sorry, United States, by all indications, has no end in sight.

gration, what are your thoughts?

With my Coast Guard hat on … there was an initial request that maybe we should send Coast Guard cutters to the Aegean Sea. I look at my own expe- Drydock your riences, and at one point I was the Cap- tain of the (270-ft.) Coast Guard cutter ship here!

Harriet Lane in 1994. Much like Mariel, we had a mass exodus leaving Haiti and at one point I had 880 migrants on my ? ight deck. In fact, one of the migrants gave birth, and now we have an infant born on a war ship and we were 881.

Does the child go back to Haiti, or are they now a U.S. citizen born on a U.S.

Customer before company, employee before owner,

Average Coast Guard Day family before self, safety above all

On an average day, the Coast

Guard: • Conducts 45 search and res- detyens.com cue cases; • Saves 10 lives;

Charleston, South Carolina • Saves over $1.2M in property; • Seizes 874 pounds of cocaine and 214 pounds of marijuana • Conducts 57 waterborne patrols of maritime infrastruc- ture; • Interdicts 17 illegal migrants; • Escorts 5 high-capacity pas- senger vessels; • Conducts 24 security board- ings in and around U.S. ports; • Screens 360 merchant vessels for potential security threats prior to arrival in U.S. ports; • Conducts 14 ? sheries conser- vation boardings; • Services 82 buoys and ? xed aids to navigation; • Investigates 35 pollution inci- dents; • Completes 26 safety examina- tions on foreign vessels; • Conducts 105 marine inspec- tions; • Investigates 14 marine casual- ties involving commercial ves- sels; • Facilitates movement of $8.7B worth of goods and commodi- ties through the Nation’s Mari- time Transportation System.

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