The United States Coast Guard is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the country's eight uniformed services. Th
A USCG HH-65 Dolphin helicopter flies overhead as the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute steams near Deepwater Horizon spill site, July 4, 2010.
USCG helicopter, Rescue swimmers conduct search and rescue after Hurricane Irma
A member of USCG Maritime Security Response Team West trains for a simulated terrorist threat aboard the motor vessel
Maritime Safety and Security Team conduct operations in the Gulf of Aden Sept. 8, 2009 part of Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counterpiracy operations off the coast of Somalia.
The United States Department of Homeland Security is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, comparable to interior ministries abroad. Its missions involve anti-terroris
Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington D.C.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer addresses Vice President Dick Cheney (center); Saxby Chambliss (center right), a U.S. Senator from Georgia; and Michael Chertoff (far right), the second head of the DHS; in 2005
President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2004 on October 1, 2003.
U.S. CBP Office of Field Operations officer checking the authenticity of a travel document at an international airport using a stereo microscope