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Happy Birthday, Coast Guard
| 题名： | Happy Birthday, Coast Guard |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | The United States Coast Guard celebrated its 231st birthday August 4. On that date in 1790, the first Congress authorized Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to build 10 revenue cutters to combat smuggling and enforce tariff laws. The Coast Guard was the United States' only armed maritime force for the next eight years, until the Navy was established in 1798. Revenue enforcement was very important, especially in those early years, when tariff revenues made up 90 percent of the U.S. budget. That was why the Coast Guard was known as the Revenue Cutter Service until 1915, when Congress renamed it the Coast Guard after combining it with the U.S. Life Saving Service. The Coast Guard has always had a close connection with revenues. It was under the Treasury Departments jurisdiction until 1967; then it was transferred to the Department of Transportation. It was given responsibility for lighthouses by President Roosevelt in 1939. The Coast Guard's university, the Coast Guard Academy, was founded in 1876 as the Revenue Cutter School of Instruction. Since 1932, it has been located in New London, Conn. The Coast Guard is the only military branch exempt from the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the military from engaging in law enforcement activities. That's because it is responsible for enforcing many domestic laws; interdicting drug smuggling is only the best-known of these domestic duties. During peacetime, it is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 19 |
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