Did you know?

Each day, the men and women of the 41,000 plus active duty Coast Guard, over 7,000 Reservists, and 26,000 Auxiliarists provide services over 3.4 million square miles of Exclusive Economic Zones.

In a single year, the Coast Guard:

• responded to 6,705 Search and Rescue cases, saved 5,220 lives, assisted 19,437 people and saved or assisted more than $1.02 billion in property;
• removed 231 metric tons of cocaine bound toward the U.S. via the Transit Zone;
• stopped 231 narco-terrorists;
• conducted 16,012 facility inspections;
  
• conducted 1,424 boardings of high interest vessels designated as posing a greater-than-normal risk to the United States;
  
• conducted 33,370 vessel inspections;
• deterred and/or transported over 11,000 illegal aliens;
• seized over 100,000 pounds of narcotics;
• maintained 50,000 aids to navigation nationwide;
• facilitated the movement of more than 1.8 billion tons of cargo through U.S. waters (projected $5.4 trillion in goods).

What else happens during an average day?

• conducts 45 search and rescue cases;
• saves 10 lives;
• saves over $1.2M in property;
• seizes 874 pounds of cocaine and 214 pounds of marijuana;
• conducts 57 waterborne patrols of critical maritime infrastructure;
• interdicts 17 illegal aliens;
• escorts 5 high-capacity passenger vessels;.
• conducts 24 security boardings in and around U.S. ports;
• screens 360 merchant vessels for potential security threats prior to arrival in U.S. ports;
• conducts 14 fisheries conservation boardings;
• services 82 buoys and fixed aids to navigation;
• investigates 35 pollution incidents;
• completes 26 safety examinations on foreign vessels;
• conducts 105 marine inspections;
• investigates 14 marine casualties involving commercial vessels;
• facilitates movement of $8.7B worth of goods and commodities through the Nations Maritime Transportation System.

Data Source: U.S. Coast Guard (2025).