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Lawrence J. Korb and Michael Conathan explain why a unified national security budget would be good news for the Coast Guard.
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Before superstorm Sandy pounded the shores of the East Coast, it had already claimed its first American victims. With the storm still a day from landfall, the U.S. Coast Guard received a distress signal from the tall ship Bounty located approximately 90 miles off the cost of North Carolina.
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