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The Philippine Coast Guard (Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas) is the coast guard of the Philippines. A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. ...
The PCG is involved in the broader enforcement of maritime laws in the country, especially against smuggling, illegal fishing and drug trafficking. Also, it is involved in maritime search and rescue (SAR) missions, as well as the protection of marine environment. Currently it is present throughout the archipelago, with ten (10) Coast Guard Districts, fifty-four (54) CG Stations and over one hundred ninety (190) CG Detachments, from Basco, Batanes to Bongao, Tawi tawi.
Its Major Units are the Coast Guard Operating Forces (CGOF), Marine Environmental Protection Command (MEPCOM), Aids to Navigation Command (ANC) and the Coast Guard Education and Training Command (CGETC). Among the PCG's Special Units are the Coast Guard Fleet, Coast Guard Aviation Group, Coast Guard Special Operations Group, and the CG K-9 Unit.
Due to the rash of terrorist attacks, the PCG activated the Task Force Sea Marshals, a composite team from the PCG, AFP and PNP. These Sea Marshals ride on many passenger ferries travelling to and from Manila, and maintain a security presence aboard these ferries. It is headed by the commandant, Rear Admiral Damian L. Carlos PCG. who is supported by Read Admiral Danilo A. Abinoja PCG, the deputy commandant.
Special Operations Group
 Philippine Coast Guard Special Operations Group operator boards "suspect" civilian cargo ship in training exercises with the Japan Coast Guard in Manila Bay in 2006. The Philippine Coast Guard's Special Operations Group is the special forces wing of the Philippine Coast Guard. It is a domestic counter-terrorism and law enforcement unit directly under its control, particularly notable for their involvement in the Superferry 14 Disaster.[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Japan Coast Guard is the Japanese Coast Guard. ...
Photography sunset in Bay City, Pasay (near SM Mall of Asia) Manila Bay is one of the finest natural harbors in the world which serves the port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines. ...
Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ...
Superferry 14 was a large ferry destroyed by a bomb on February 27, 2004, killing 116 people in the Philippines worst terrorist attack. ...
 Philippine Coast Guard Special Operations Group operators open fire on "armed terrorists" in an exercise with the Japan Coast Guard during a joint exercise on June 15, 2007. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Japan Coast Guard is the Japanese Coast Guard. ...
Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary The Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary is the civilian support group for the Philippine Coast Guard. Although a volunteer, civilian organisation, the PCGA uses a military structure for organizational purposes. Like other volunteer sea rescue organizations around the world, it performs non-military and non-police activities in support of its national navy or coast guard. These endeavors include search and rescue, environmental protection, disaster relief, community service, and marine safety. Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
Environmental movement is a term often used for any social or political movement directed towards the preservation, restoration, or enhancement of the natural environment. ...
Emergency operations or Emergency preparedness is a set of doctrines to prepare civil society to cope with natural or man-made disasters. ...
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See also The Philippine Army (PA) is the ground arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). ...
The Philippine Air Force (PhAF, often mistaken for the PAF [Persian Air Force]) is the air force of the Philippines. ...
The Philippine Navy is the navy of the Republic of the Philippines. ...
The PNP seal The Philippine National Police is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. ...
Once a model for the entire Asian continent and feared and envied by its Southeast Asian neighbors, particularly during the 1950s and 60s, the Armed Forces of the Philippines has since been surpassed by all other armed forces in the region and now is one of the weakest, most underfunded...
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