USCG commandant outlines Arctic strategy

The Coast Guard’s mission off Alaska’s northern coast is the same as its mission off the Florida Keys: making sure that laws are enforced in the U.S. economic exclusion zone, as well as providing services such as search and rescue, Admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, told the U.S....

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