[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding That’s the thing, while the third mate was getting the pilot off the captain made two course changes by eye to get around the ice. When the 3/m returned the captain had him put a fix on the chart and then told the VTS he was going to slow down for the ice but he ha…

[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding I cannot do in the US though, so I do it here. US arrests people and sends them to Gitmo for torture, if they don’t agree with US policies. Strange democracy. I was mildly interested in what you wrote until this little closer of yours…

I was mildly interested also until he wrote that the USCG is now DHS.

[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding I was mildly interested also until he wrote that the USCG is now DHS. Yes, in the old times USCG worked with me to improve safety at sea and the protection of the marine environment. But one day USCG was part of DHS and I was considered a terrorist or similar. My…

[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding USCG is now DHS. But it’s true. No longer part of Treasury. But it can be moved to Navy… The United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) is the coastal defense and maritime law enforcement branch of the United States Armed Forces [6] and one of the country’s seven un…

[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding No longer part of Treasury. But it can be moved to Navy… It hasn’t been part of Dept. of Treasury since 1967. It was under Transportation before DHS was stood up.

[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding Dept. of Treasury since 1967. When US Coast and Geodetic Survey charts were seventy five cents… Guess that dates me. :slight_smile:

[image] Exxon Valdez Grounding It hasn’t been part of Dept. of Treasury since 1967. It was under Transportation before DHS was stood up. That is incorrect. I entered the US Customs Academy at the FLETC in Glynco, GA in October 2003 while DHS was being created and graduated as a US Customs Insp…

He was talking about USCG not CBP I’m pretty sure. And yeah, Coast Guard was DoT until DHS came along.

I see what you mean. I guess I reacted to the constant confusion I see including even the media falsely perpetuating that CBP stands for Customs and Border Patrol. The Border Patrol being a separate entity under the CBP umbrella.

[image] Lee_Shore: [image] Exxon Valdez Grounding It hasn’t been part of Dept. of Treasury since 1967. It was under Transportation before DHS was stood up. That is incorrect. It is correct. I started at the USCG in 1998, it was part of DOT.

Uscg - dod - dhs - #11 by Kennebec_Captain - Professional Mariner Forum

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