Our Value to the Nation

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  The Coast Guard conducts the full range of statutory missions to deliver results, focused on achieving four paramount mission objectives across four operational domains that make up the U.S. homeland.

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  Facilitate commerce vital to economic security and strategic mobility through operations to control, secure, and defend ports, waterways, and shipping in the physical and cyber domains, and to restore U.S. maritime dominance.

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  Successfully respond to a crisis or contingency that may come with little or no warning by sustaining readiness.

Operational Impact

We conduct our statutory missions to achieve the following four paramount national outcomes:

• We save lives

• We control, secure, and defend the U.S. border and maritime approaches far at sea.

• We ensure the safe and secure flow of commerce that relies on our ports, waterways, shipping, and merchant mariners-vital to America's economic prosperity and national security, and to rebuilding the nation's maritime might.

• We respond to crisis or contingencies that may come with little or no warning.

Operational Domains

We conduct these missions in the U.S. homeland and its approaches far at sea across four major operational domains. Our paramount focus will remain:

• In the U.S. mainland, from the inland navigable waterways and Great Lakes, along the U.S. border and its approaches, throughout the Caribbean and western hemisphere, including the two U.S. territories in the Caribbean.

• In Alaska and its approaches, including the Arctic.

• In Hawaii and the three U.S. territories across the Pacific and their approaches, including remote areas of U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in Oceania.

• In cyberspace, which converges the physical realm with the logical and digital realms.