>> >> Are the nuclear missile capable subs under Navy?
>> > All ships come under the Navy.  Other than the Coast Guard, which is
>> > under the Treasury Dept.   Except in war time.  I think the last time that
>> > happened was in WWII.
>> So the joint xchiefs essentially conscript the Coast Guard into active
> service
>> Otherwise it's more a domestic defense service, as the FBI vs CIA? (only one
> i
>> allowed to operate in-country & only one can operate internationally?)
> Back in the time he is referring to, the Coast Guard also used to escort
> marine traffic beyond the US Coast.  As Joe pointed out, that changed
> sometime during or after WWII and may have only been a war-time thing.
> Early in that war, we lost some Coast Guard vessels in the North Atlantic
> to enemy fire (U-boats, I think).

Something like this happened in Canada, too -- the Navy did the full escorting  of suypply vessels, but our domestic coat guard expanded their purviewfarther  away from land than they'd normally be -- more as an early waerning system than as an actual fighting unit.  I don't recall reading of any that were sunk --  just RCNavy ships, by, likewise, uboats.

War just plain sucks, even when necessary (as a few were)

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