Marine Safety Units & Marine Safety Detachments
MARINE SAFETY UNITS (MSU)
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MARINE SAFETY DETACHMENTS (MSD)———————————————————————
Coast Guard Marine Safety Units (MSU) and Marine Safety Detachments (MSD) are specialized field commands that manage vital maritime safety, security, and environmental protection missions, including commercial vessel inspections, pollution response, and waterway management. They are usually located in strategic, often remote ports, and operate under Coast Guard Sectors. Other responsibilities include facility inspections, conducting marine casualty investigations, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, monitoring, patrolling and ensuring the security of ports, waterways and regulated facilities, responding to potential environmental threats, such as oil spills and hazardous material incidents, and assisting with the documentation and licensing of merchant mariners.
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ANCIENT TRIDENT
The Ancient Trident title, established in 2016, honors the Officer (Gold) and Enlisted (Silver) member with the longest time served in the Marine Safety program. This award not only recognizes Marine Safety longevity, but also extols the Officer and Enlisted member whose personal character and performance standards honor the most venerable practitioners of Marine Safety, and highly reflects the Coast Guard
Core Values of Honor, Respect, and Devotion to Duty.
Gold Ancient Trident
(Officer)
Silver Ancient Trident
(Enlisted)
MSU Baton Rouge, LA
MSU Brownsville, TX
MSU Chicago, IL
Presented by the Indominable Crew
MSU Cleveland, OH
MSU Cleveland, OH
MSD Coram, NY
MSU Duluth, MN
MSU Galveston, TX
(now MSU Texas City, TX)
MSU Galveston, TX
(now MSU Texas City, TX)
MSU Galveston, TX
(now MSU Texas City, TX)
MSU Galveston, TX
(now MSU Texas City, TX)
MSU Houma, LA
MSU Houma, LA
MSU Huntington, WV
(2” diameter)
MSU Huntington, WV
(2-3/4” H x 2” W)
MSU Lake Charles, LA
MSU Lake Charles, LA
MSU Lewes, DE
(formerly MSD Lewes, DE)
MSD Lewes, DE
(now MSU Lewes, DE)
MSU Morgan City, LA
MSU Paducah, KY
Commanding Officer
MSU Paducah, KY
MSD Panama City, FL
Awarded for Excellence
(2-1/4” W x 2-1/4” H)
MSU Pittsburgh, PA
MSU Pittsburgh, PA
MSU Port Arthur, TX
MSU Port Arthur, TX
MSU Port Arthur, TX
MSU Port Arthur, TX
MSU Port Canaveral, FL
MSU Portland, OR
MSU Portland, OR
MSU Savannah, GA
MSD St. Paul / Minneapolis, MN
MSD St. Thomas Virgin USVI
(2-3/4” H x 2-3/8” W)
MSD St. Thomas Virgin USVI
(2-3/4” H x 2-3/8” W)
MSD St. Thomas Virgin USVI
MSU Texas City, TX
(formerly MSU Galveston, TX)
MSU Toledo, OH
Investigations Branch
MSU Valdez, AK
MSU Wilmington, DE
