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From an interview with Dan Snyder, former Sergeant with the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army.

Consumer goods come into our ports in huge variety and unimaginable volume, so it’s physically impossible to inspect everything that comes in. If you attempt to implement really rigorous port security, it will convert to a high expense and our cost of goods would skyrocket in the United States. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Breeching port security is how a lot of illegal aliens come into the country. Think about that: If we can’t detect even that there are living, breathing, moving human beings inside of a container, imagine how tough it is to detect inanimate objects hidden among hundreds of thousands of legitimate goods. It’s a little like searching a beach full of sand for one dangerous grain.

Our port security is managed by the Department of Homeland Security, and the Coast Guard is their primary agent. Port Authority has their own security units, but they’re geared primarily for detecting drugs. Much bigger responsibilities lie in the hands of the Coast Guard.

When you’re the Coast Guard, what you’re really dealing with is probabilities. The nature of port security is that it’s an easy thing to exploit for any terrorist organization. Make no mistake: It would be no easier and no harder to breech port security operations weather you’re in charge of a port or if you’re working from the outside.

As ships come in, they’re boarded and inspected by the Coast Guard before they’re allowed to embark. They run through these ships with dogs and a variety of equipment they use to sniff for dangerous items. You’re really hoping your security and Intel people—the CIA and NSA—have an inkling of what’s going on and who’s moving what around the world before it actually happens. They monitor all the radio traffic and find out who’s buying and trading what. It’s more about the tendency of a certain point of origin to export a certain item than it is about sifting through the stuff once it gets here.

You can tell that the general population, before the Dubai port deal, didn’t really have a consciousness of port security. They didn’t know that dangerous items could so easily slip through our ports. The public now wants a stop to that possibility, but we can’t take on a fortress mentality. We can’t erect castle walls around our ports, so we take on one ship at a time; select the cargo units; hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

The Coast Guard is going to be pretty well-prepared if they’ve got the right Intel, and they use pretty much the same weaponry as Special Forces units. But as the number one consumer in the world, America is always going to have massive amounts of cargo coming in, and as a Coast Guard soldier, you never know for sure exactly what that might hold for you.