Coast Guard Special Operations: You Won’t BELIEVE What They Do!

The United States Coast Guard is home to a variety of special operations units that many people are not aware of. U.S. Coast Guard Special Operations, officially known as the Deployable Specialized Forces, are a group of highly trained operators and Coast Guardsmen who are the tip of the spear in the fight against maritime threats.

The Coast Guard Deployable Specialized Forces consist of the Maritime Safety Response Teams (MSRT), Maritime Safety and Security Teams (MSST), Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACLET), Port Security Units (PSU), and National Strike Force (NSF).

If you want to learn more about U.S. Coast Guard Special Operations, as well as what these various units do, watch this video!

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[GeneralDischarge]

Tell us, were you aware of how cool Coast Guard Special Operations were?

[maddg]

People joke about the Coast Guard, but they are savages in their field. Can't hate the underdog.

[azcountry]

My oldest son was USMC FAST for four years. He told me if he worked for a unit outside the Corps, it would be with Coast Guard MSRT/MSST/PSU. He said he loved working with them in training and said they were outstanding.

[Rogamonsu]

Active duty Coast Guard serving at MSRT; excellent video and exposure! Thanks for showing some love!

[cabledad]

It's pretty impressive, considering the size of the USCG is on par with the NYPD. The NYPD covers one city. The USCG covers a large percentage of the world with 53, 000 personnel.

[teufelhund]

Thanks for revisiting the Coast Guard and giving it attention. There's definitely cool career opportunities and even without going the route of any of these special units you'll be seeing action and can be doing drug interdictions because the Coast Guard is so small and always busy.

[Bravo-Too-Much]

What people fail to recognize is the Coast Guard is the PREMIERE rescue force in the United States and their search and rescue SOP/SOGs do not list a single “no go” situation. For example, normal Air Medical services in the US(CareFlite/Air Evac/PHI/etc) will not fly in even mildly inclement weather or if mild weather is forecasted. The Coast Guard does not have those kinds of no fly or no go situations, they will fly out, boat out, jump out, swim out, rope out and so on during Hurricane conditions. That’s some scary shit. That is pretty incredible if you aren’t familiar with search and rescue services. If they are called, they will go. They have many of the most incredible rescue stories you’ll ever hear. They have more rescues each year than every other branch combined, including PJs and SARCs during two decades of war time. They are responsible for all watercraft operating in American waters and have more seaborne raids on ships than all SEAL Teams combined. We never hear about them, but they average 2 or more armed ship/vessel boardings and takeovers every month.

No one takes them seriously because they are always compared up against the other military branches when they really have very different mission sets. They are more similar to police and fire department technical rescue teams than military units in regards to what they actually do and respond too.

If you actually want to do in real life what you are trained for, the Coast Guard is likely your best bet. If you want to go to war, join a different branch.

[kodiakkeith]

I retired from the USCG 25 years ago. When I joined we were the red-headed step child of the armed forces. My first cutter was out of PR and we had no training beyond some periodic weapons training that we got from the navy at Roosevelt Roads. On my cutter if you didn't stand watches you were automatically boarding crew. Our weapons were burned out M16s from the marines, old 1911s or vintage Winchester Model 12 shotguns. The weapons training quickly showed us that the M16s were completely unreliable, so I always grabbed an M12. We didn't even have shell holders, so you just stuffed your jacket pockets with reloads. We had a list called Omega and if the vessel was on that list you knew before boarding that it was a drug boat. If it wasn't on the list it still might be drug boat. We had an RHI that would zoom up and we'd board from there, just four guys. We had no strategy other than (depending on the layout of the boat) simply sweeping the crew fore or aft where one guy would watch them. The ensign or jg in charge would go to the bridge and take the conn, while two other guys went below and searched for drugs. Luckily, none of those boardings I was on ever resulted in a shoot-out because we were ill-prepared and poorly trained. I'm glad the CG is finally getting proper training.

[brianledet]

I was stationed at PACTACLET for 6 years. 1999 - 2005. 4 trips to Iraq and was unfortunately there when Nate Bruckenthal, our brother, gave his life for his country. I went to a MSRT after TACLET but carried a injury that I would never recover from while fast roping. I thought I would have knee surgery and recover but I also had a spinal injury that got worse and I ended up with one surgery after another so I took a Instructor job at the Law Enforcement training team and barely made my 20 because of all the injuries. I would do it all again though. PACTACLET was the best 6 years of my life. Running all over the globe seizing over 50 tons of drugs and many successful trips to the Middle East. The Coast Guard has many jobs for the adrenaline junkies like myself, although the LE field is extremely hard to get into at the moment because the schools have over a 4 year wait list as my Nephew found out unfortunately. Semper Paratus!!

[tjjanicke]

There are some coasties that are navy seals but the program was terminated so there are only a few Coast Guard Navy Seals left. The program was only active for two years

[Aromatize]

Great video I was in a MSST you were spot on with this video except there are multiple divisions with them .thank you for putting the spot light on us. A lot of people don't know about this side of the coast guard.

[kingkarl]

Great video highlighting some of the great stuff us guardsmen get to do! I think being a helicopter precision marksmen (sniper) at HITRON is the coolest job in the Coast Guard. Other branches do 99% training and 1% operational missions whereas the Coast Guard is fighting wars and saving lives year round.

[RifRafJonesy]

Having been one of the early TACLET's, I'll start with wow, how did you get all of this so correct? Nice video. Most people know nothing about us.

[genkali]

Coasties are out there working 24/7. Pretty awesome peacetime gig for a uniformed service.

[tjboylan]

My high school Chemistry teacher was a TacLet dude was crazy, he told a few stories that were just so crazy that we couldn’t believe that it actually happened. But we knew for damn sure that he definitely had done it

[joegibson]

For those interested, Coast Guard Tactical Law Enforcement Teams were established around 1984. Back then the rates included BM, MK, GM and occasionally some of the other ratings. That was before the ME rate was created.

[DJVertigo]

Phenomenal! Thank you for shining a spotlight on this underrated and under-appreciated community!

[LanceCorporalRookie]

Would love to see something about the Department of Energys Office of Secure Transportation

[rowdyron]

Excellent presentation. Coast Guard kicking some ass! Thanks!

[SovActual]

thanks for making the video regarding the Coast Guard, they are good at what they do.