US Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States.

The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization within the Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the U.S. military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission (with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters) and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its mission set. It was created by Congress on 4 August 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton as the ''Revenue Marine as the oldest continuous seagoing service of the United States. The Coast Guard was formed from the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915, as an organization under the U.S. Department of the Treasury.