{"id":17665,"date":"2010-02-25T10:26:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2010-02-25T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:26:47","slug":"coast-guard-chief-wants-to-slash-homeland-security-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17665","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Chief wants to slash Homeland Security role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when they moved the Coast Guard to the Homeland Security Department from the Transportation Department to more accurately reflect their role in the war against terror and bring them under the control of a central authority that could utilize them properly? Well, Obama’s pick to lead the Coast Guard wants to slash funding for incidentals like Guarding Our Coast and Training to Guard Our Coast, according to a memo the Associated Press<\/a> got in their grubby little hands.<\/p>\n

An internal memo from Vice Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., Obama’s nominee to become Coast Guard commandant, says that starting in 2012, he would slash funding for programs in the agency’s homeland security plan, including patrols and training exercises.<\/p>\n

The memo, marked “sensitive – for internal Coast Guard use only,” was obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Papp’s outline is significant because it could mean major changes for the more than 200-year-old agency that took on substantial homeland security duties after Sept. 11, 2001. Obama’s 2011 proposed budget cuts for the Coast Guard have already caused outrage from some lawmakers.<\/p>\n

According to Papp’s memo, he would scale back the Coast Guard’s counterterrorism priorities in favor of running traditional search-and-rescue operations that save people in imminent danger on the water and maintaining the maritime transportation system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I’m guessing the War on Terror has ended and no one told us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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