Coast Guard Mission Statement

The Coast Guard is the principal Federal agency responsible for maritime safety, security, and environmental stewardship in U.S. ports and waterways. In this capacity, the Coast Guard protects and defends more than 100,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways, and safeguards an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) encompassing 4.5 million square miles stretching from North of the Arctic Circle to South of the equator, from Puerto Rico to Guam, encompassing nine time zones – the largest EEZ in the world (USCG, 2017). This attack was not the first, and probably will not be the last on U.S. soil. Sixty years prior the attack on Pearl Harbor was similar to the devastation of what happened on 9/11. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, over 500

306. Strategic plans,” “(1) a comprehensive mission statement covering the major functions and operations of the agency.” While considering proposing a revised mission statement Commander Englebert must keep a couple factors in mind. First, there are three components that create and provide the social justification, mandates, mission, and values, which ultimately leads to public value. Clarifying missions can help gain benefits to focus, gain purpose, effective leadership, and leaders attention to important values and philosophy. A Mission statement tells everyone what your purpose is. According to Bryson, it essential to ask six key questions. With this Commander Englebert can propose a revised mission

But before September 11, that role had mainly dealt with ensuring safety on costal waters, preventing illegal smuggling and immigration, providing security to the U.S. Naval assets in 17 ports, and providing episodic security for special port events (Harvard Kennedy School Case Study, 2012). As stated earlier, social justification is needed in agencies. External Justification of public agencies is necessary since many public agencies feel that they have a monopoly on the services that they provide such as the police and protection of citizens. However, there are alternatives in the form of civilianized security and technology advances that could impact the police agency legitimacy (PSHS 6250 Lecture 3, 2017). Agency mandates and clarifying missions has four outcomes. According to the Lecture, (1) identify organization’s mandates, both formal and informal. (2) Interpret requirements stemming from the mandates. (3) Clarify what is prohibited from the mandates. (4) Clarify what is okay by the mandates. These steps are crucial in the process of structuring a new plan. Watching the video from Harvard Kennedy School Case Study, Commander Englebert stated that the system had mandated that private sector do something. National legislation allowed for the Coast Guard to act, and by fall 2003 they had to have final regulations done. All vessels and securities had to have