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Ex-Dragoon said:The problem with letting them do maritime safety and SAR work only is sometimes they are the only platform in the area and it may take some time for armed assets to get there.
Good point. If you have to what for armed assest to get there you don't know what will happen. For example you could pull along side a fishing trawler and some fisherman decides he does not like you looking at him and uncovers a surplus .50 sitting on the bow.
Acorn said:They don't need to be militarized though, we have the Navy in the event the CCG needs support for something beyond their abilities, just as the Army has been called in to support Law Enforcement on land.
Even if they would not become part of DND as the original question asked, they should still be militarized. People tend to think differently when they have a gun pointed at them.
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McNutt