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The active duty sailors are assisted by volunteer civilians in the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

The Auxiliary concentrates on teaching boating safety classes to the public and conducting voluntary boat inspections, he said.

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Once part of the regular armed forces, later transferred to the Department of Transportation, the Coast Guard was made part of the Department of Homeland Security, which was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Well, you could say that it is true in that during WWII, the CG was officially part of the Navy (i.e., part of the regular armed forces) and then later went to DoT. Yep, that reading would skip quite a few steps and be more than a little mis-leading, but technically true.

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Originally posted by RiverAux:
Well, you could say that it is true in that during WWII, the CG was officially part of the Navy (i.e., part of the regular armed forces) and then later went to DoT. Yep, that reading would skip quite a few steps and be more than a little mis-leading, but technically true.

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Originally posted by BobSacramano:

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Originally posted by RiverAux:
Well, you could say that it is true in that during WWII, the CG was officially part of the Navy (i.e., part of the regular armed forces) and then later went to DoT. Yep, that reading would skip quite a few steps and be more than a little mis-leading, but technically true.

Hmm....so am I to assume that we are currently part of the irregular armed forces?

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Since no one seems to grasp the concept of making a tongue-in-cheek comment, I'll try again.....technically it is also true that the Coast Guard was once part of the regular Armed Forces. The use of the word once implies that it is no longer the case, but you could also read it to mean that they were once made part of the regular Armed Forces and that they have never actually left that status. Hence, the quote would be accurate, but again misleading.