The overarching mission of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is to contribute to the safety and security of our citizens, ports, waterways and coastal regions. We must balance our missions of Recreational Boating Safety, Coast Guard Support and Maritime Homeland Security.

The Coast Guard Auxiliary is a volunteer civilian, non-military component of the United States Coast Guard. The Auxiliary is a service organization, over 30,000 strong providing: the public with safe boating and seamanship education; the public with free vessel safety examinations to assure their boats have all of the safety equipment the law requires; boat and aircraft Operations to assist the Coast Guard and other government agencies with search and rescue events, regatta patrols, boat parades and similar events; and provides operational support to allow local Coast Guard units to release facilities to address disasters or emergencies. Coast Guard Auxiliarists volunteer over 2,000,000 hours annually in support of these missions.

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