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   >> >> 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)   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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