Coast Guard Atlantic Area

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Coast Guard Atlantic Area
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Country United States
Branch United States Coast Guard
TypeArea command
HeadquartersPortsmouth Federal Building, Portsmouth, Virginia
Nickname(s)LANTAREA
Website Official website
Commanders
Commander VADM Nathan A. Moore
Deputy Commander RADM Mark J. Fedor
Command Master Chief CMC Charlie F. Salls

Coast Guard Atlantic Area (LANTAREA) is an Area Command of the United States Coast Guard, a regional command element and force provider tasked with maritime safety, security, and stewardship throughout the Atlantic. The command oversees all Coast Guard domestic operations east of the Rocky Mountains, including the Caribbean and foreign areas of interest in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

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Organizational structure

Five regional districts commands run day-to-day operations. Atlantic Area is responsible for coordinating and deploying cutters, aircraft, pollution response equipment, and thousands of personnel between districts when major events occur. After major disasters, Atlantic Area assists districts by ensuring resources, equipment, and personnel are surged to impacted areas for rescue and recovery efforts, while also ensuring other Coast Guard operations throughout the region continue. [1]

Under LANTAREA are the Coast Guard's Northeast, East, Southeast, Heartland and Great Lakes Districts. [1]

LANTAREA deploys cutters to areas within their control to combat transnational organized crime, to prevent, deter, detect and interdict illicit smuggling efforts. [1]

Operational assets

In addition to assets at each of its subordinate units, the Atlantic Area command's operational assets include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Us". Atlantic Area of the United States Coast Guard. Retrieved December 21, 2021.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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