US Coast Guard - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Coast Guard Index / Organizations Transcripts Tommy Vietor ...effort, dispatch the military, dispatch the Coast Guard , whatever resources were at ou... Ben LaBolt ...the Department of Homeland Security to the Coast Guard . You know, the Pentagon runs a prett... Jane Lute ...the immediate response role, both with the Coast Guard and more broadly, in coordinating th... ...possible. Now, what we know is that the Coast Guard 's standing response to major oi... ...Customs Enforcement] doing its job, or the Coast Guard , or FEMA [Federal Emergency Managemen... ...Everybody has got rivers. They love the Coast Guard . Writing the first-ever white pape... ...white paper in the history of the Coast Guard —the first-ever white paper in th... ...white paper in the history of the Coast Guard since the 1790s. We did that. I said t... ...I said, “Why does the country pay for the Coast Guard ?” He said, “Well, we have eleve... ...up with a sentence: “The purpose of the Coast Guard is to ensure the safety, security, an... Show more... Samuel Locklear ...and in the Air Force, and a big part in the Coast Guard as well, just because of the amount w... Esther Brimmer ...the United States Coast Guard, because the Coast Guard actually provides search and rescue an... Janice Langbehn ...up. So there was a formal card that the Coast Guard officer gave us with our names. An... Craig Fugate ...there that this should be all under the Coast Guard , including the hurricanes. And I'... ...be in charge of the oil spill. That's the Coast Guard . But there's a lot of other thing... ...every day that could have supported the Coast Guard , freeing them up to focus on the spil... Jon Carson ...was so interesting because, to me, the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers—the... ...one level, it was just amazing to watch the Coast Guard spring into action and deal with this... ...issue and quickly recognized that the Coast Guard was doing a great job. They were doin... ...saw the incredible response from the Coast Guard and other parts of the federa... Ken Salazar ...it was a shared responsibility because the Coast Guard , since it was a maritime incident, ha... ...point because Homeland Security and the Coast Guard were the lead on the incident response... Related Topics go to the Education Education go to the Science Science go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Public Health Public Health