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Originally Posted by CDAT
After my last post I was thinking that the Coast Guard might also fit, even though they are not military (only kind of sort of are, but not), and maybe the guard when called up by the Governors.
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The Coast Guard is actually a LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY in the eyes of the US Government thru and thru. This is why there HAVE to be Coasties on Navy vessels participating in drug operations. The Navy is NOT RECOGNIZED as a Title 18 agency under the Law. Posse Comitatus would make their involvement Unconstitutional EXCEPT that it is the Coasties who perform the actual arrest. I don't think the US COULD have a legitimate military unit with powers of arrest without violating the Posse Comitatus Act (restrictions on policing with the armed forces).