United States Coast Guard Reserve

Coast Guard Reserve
Seal of the Coast Guard Reserve
Active	February 19, 1941 to present
Part of	United States Coast Guard
Motto(s)	Professionalism, Patriotism, Preparedness
Anniversaries	February 19, 1941
Engagements	World War II Operation Desert Storm Operation Iraqi Freedom
Commanders
Current commander	Director of Reserve and Training, RDML Daniel R. May.

The United States Coast Guard Reserve is the reserve component of the United States Coast Guard. It is organized, trained, administered, and supplied under the direction of the Commandant of the Coast Guard through the Director of Reserve and Training.

The mission of the Coast Guard Reserve is to provide highly trained and well qualified personnel available for active duty in time of war and national emergency, and for augmentation of regular Coast Guard forces during a serious natural or man-made disaster, accident, or catastrophe.

History

The United States Coast Guard Reserve was originally established on June 23, 1939 as a civilian reserve. This civilian reserve was renamed the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary on the passage of the Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary Act of February 19, 1941.

During the Vietnam War period and shortly thereafter, the Coast Guard considered abandoning the Reserve program, but the force was instead reoriented into force augmentation.

Since September 11, 2001, over 8,500 Reservists have been activated and 400 Reservists are currently on active duty. All the Coast Guard's Port Security Units and most of its Naval Coastal Warfare units are Reserve-only units.

Organization

The reserves normally train two days a month and may perform up to 15 days of Active Duty for Training a year. The Coast Guard Reserve has about 8,000 men and women in service, most of them integrated directly with Coast Guard units.

External links

• US Coast Guard Reserve
• The Coast Guard Reservist magazine