sorry, coast guard was an arm of the treasury (customs) and responsible for
interdicting smuggling and attending lighthouses and other duties

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The Coast Guard also maintains that they were present as an armed force
in the pre-revolutionary times before the Army and the Navy.


Hmmm.... I don't see how, the USCG wasn't formed until sometime in the
1920s, I believe.