Philippine Coast Guard

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) (Filipino: Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas) is an armed
and uniformed service tasked primarily with enforcing laws within Philippine waters,
conducting maritime security operations, safeguarding life and property at sea, and
protecting marine environment and resources; similar to coast guards around the world.
The Coast Guard also serves as an attached service of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines in wartime.
It is an agency attached to the Department of Transportation of the Philippines. It
currently maintains a presence throughout the archipelago, with thirteen Coast Guard
Districts, fifty-four CG Stations and over one hundred ninety Coast Guard Sub-Stations,
from Basco, Batanes to Bongao, Tawi-Tawi.[1]

Ranks
Commissioned Officer Ranks
Admiral (ADM) – General
Vice Admiral (VADM) – Lieutenant General
Rear Admiral (RADM) – Major General
Commodore (COMMO) – Brigadier General
Captain (CAPT) – Colonel
Commander (CDR) – Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) – Major
Lieutenant (LT) – Captain
Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) – 1st Lieutenant
Ensign (ENS) – 2nd Lieutenant
Probationary Ensign (P/ENS) – Trainee Rank or awaiting for
Commissionship/Probationary 2nd Lieutenant
Non Commissioned Officer/Enlisted Ranks -
First Master Chief Petty Officer (FMCPO) – First Chief Master Sergeant
Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO) – Chief Master Sergeant
Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO) – Senior Master Sergeant
Chief Petty Officer (CPO) – Master Sergeant
Petty Officer 1st Class (PO1) – Technical Sergeant
Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2) – Staff Sergeant
Petty Officer 3rd Class (PO3) – Sergeant
Seaman First Class (SN1) – Corporal
Seaman Second Class (SN2) – Private First Class
Apprentice Seaman (ASN) – Private
Candidate Coast Guardsman (CCGM) – Candidate Soldier
Coast Guard Districts
Coast Guard District Northeastern Luzon
Coast Guard District Northwestern Luzon
Coast Guard District National Capital Region - Central Luzon
Coast Guard District Southern Tagalog
Coast Guard District Palawan
Coast Guard District Bicol
Coast Guard District Eastern Visayas
Coast Guard District Western Visayas
Coast Guard District Central Visayas
Coast Guard District Southern Visayas
Coast Guard District Northern Mindanao
Coast Guard District Southeastern Mindanao
Coast Guard District Southwestern Mindanao

Units
The Philippine Coast Guard's functional command units include:
The Maritime Security Command (MARSECOM)
Marine Environmental Protection Command (MEPCOM)
Maritime Safety Services Command (MSSC)
The PCG used to be with the Armed Forces of the Philippines under the Philippine Navy
before it was transferred to the Department of Transportation. The PCG is considered
the third armed and uniformed service of the country primarily tasked with enforcing all
applicable laws within the Philippine waters, conducting maritime security operations,
safeguarding of life and property at sea and protecting the marine environment and
resources.

Coast Guard Aviation Force

The Coast Guard Aviation Force (CGAF), then known as Coast Guard Air Group was formally
activated on 18 May 1998 during the incumbency of Commodore Manuel I de Leon PCG as
Commandant, Philippine Coast Guard. Accordingly, Commander Noel O Monte PCG was
designated as its first Commander holding office at the former PADC Hangar Nr. 3, Domestic
Airport Complex, Pasay City.With the intense need to have the capability to extract
survivors from water, the said helicopter was fitted with a rescue hoist through the
courtesy of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Another significant milestone
unfolded in the history of the group when PCG leadership was turned over to Vice
Admiral Arthur Gosingan PCG. Through the endorsement of the CGOF Commander,
Rear Admiral Damian Carlos PCG in recognizing the importance of the air unit in coast
guard operations and their outstanding accomplishments granted the aviators their most
aspired yearning of their careers by approving the group's position paper on the
Command Pilot Rating. This enabled aviators to have an equal opportunity with officers
that acquired a Command at a Sea Badge to assume positions of higher responsibilities
in the Coast Guard hierarchy.

Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary

The Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary is the civilian support group of the Philippine
Coast Guard. Although a volunteer, civilian organization, 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. This endeavor includes search and rescue, environmental
protection, disaster relief, community service, and marine safety.
The ranks of the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary follow those of the Philippine Coast
Guard.[6]
Note: the PCGA should not be confused to be similar or equivalent to any reserve unit
of the military. Since military reservists go through actual pre-entry training and are
assigned serial numbers which is kept for life and not maintained by membership fees
paid on a yearly basis. Hence, PCGA members are called Auxiliarists.

Ships in service
Class Photo Type Ships Origin Note

Search and Rescue Vessels

Built by French
shipbuilder
OCEA in Les
Sables-
d'Olonne, Franc
Gabriela Offshor e. An 84-meter
BRP Gabriela
Silang- e Patrol France OPV (offshore
Silang
class vessel patrol vessel)
equipped with
helipad.
Delivered on 18
December
2019.[7]
 Built by Tenix.
All 4 vessels that
BRP San Juan
are 56 meters in
San Juan- Patrol BRP EDSA II Australi
length are in
class vessel BRP Pampanga a
active service
BRP Batangas
and equipped
with helipad.[8]

BRP Tubbataha
BRP Malabrigo A new class of
BRP Malapascua 44 meters 10
BRP Capones Multi-Role
BRP Suluan Response
Parola- Patrol
BRP Sindangan Japan Vessels built
class vessel
BRP Cape San by Japan Marine
Agustin United. All 10
BRP Cabra vessels in active
BRP Bagacay service.
BRP Cape Engaño

BRP Ilocos Norte Built by Tenix.

BRP Nueva All 4 Vessels
Ilocos
Patrol Vizcaya Australi that are 35
Norte-
vessel BRP Romblon a meters in length
class
BRP Davao del are in active
Norte service.

Support Ships

Built by Niigata
Engineering in
Japan through a
soft loan.
Corregidor Buoy BRP Corregidor (A Commissioned
Japan
-class tender E-891) in 3 February
1998 and is
currently in
active
service.[9]

Built by Ingalls
Buoy BRP Cape United Shipbuilding.
FS-type
tender Bojeador (AE-46) States BRP Cape
Bojeador is an
 ex-US Army FS
203 and ex-
Philippine Navy
TK 46.
BRP Limasawa is
an ex-USCG
Nettle WAK 169,
ex-US Army FS
397 and ex-
Philippine Navy
TK 69, and was
retired from
PCG service.[9]

Ex-USCG
Balsam-class
navigational aid
tender, USCGC
Redbud (WLB-
398) built by
Marine Iron and
SB Corp.
Balsam- Buoy BRP Kalinga (AE- United Refitted in
class tender 89) States Cavite Naval
Yard in
November
1995. Equipped
with a
helicopter
platform and an
ice-breaking
bow.[9]

Medium
Habagat- -size BRP Habagat (TB-
Japan
class ocean 271)
tugboat

Patrol Craft
 Built by French
shipbuilder
OCEA in Les
Sables-
d'Olonne, Franc
BRP Boracay
Fast e. Four 24-
Boracay- BRP Kalanggaman
Patrol France meter FPB (fast
class BRP Panglao
Boat patrol boat) 72
BRP Malamawi
Mk. II for multi-
role purposes.
All four ships
will be delivered
in 2018.

DF 300,[10] DF
Swift Patrol 301, DF United
Mk.1-class craft 302,[11] DF States
303[12]

DF 305, DF
307, DF
308,[13] DF-309,
DF 310, DF
Swift Patrol United
311, DF-
Mk.2-class craft States
312,[14] DF
313, DF-
314,[15] DF-
315, DF-316[16]

DF 325, DF 326,
DF 327, DF 328,
Swift Patrol DF 329, DF 330, United
Mk.3-class craft DF 331, DF States
332, DF
334,[17] DF 347

De
Patrol Australi
Havilland DF 318[18]
craft a
9209-class

Coast CGC 30, CGC 32, Transferred

Guard patrol CGC 103, CGC 110, United from the US
Cutter- craft CGC 115, CGC 128, States Navy. Used for
type CGC 129, CGC 130, harbor police
 CGC 132, CGC 133, work. One was
CGC 134, CGC 135, stricken in 1994,
CGC 136 CGCs 30, 32 and
128 currently
non-
operational.[9]

Minor naval assets[edit]

# of
Type Photo Origin Note
Ships

2 Yamaha High Speed Boat 1202

High Speed
provided by Japan, to be used
Interceptor 2 Japan
by Special Operations
Craft
Group.[19]

Used in search-and-rescue and

disaster response. 300 ordered
Aluminum V-
in an earlier contract, another
shaped hull 320 Philippines
20 units delivered by
boat
Pacificfortia Marine
Technologies in October 2018.

Used in search-and-rescue and

Rigid-hulled disaster response. 81 units
From multiple
inflatable 93 ordered earlier, another 12
suppliers
boat units made by Trenton USA
delivered in October 2018.

From multiple Used in search-and-rescue and

Rubber boat 50
suppliers disaster response

Aircraft in service[edit]

Main article: List of active military aircraft of the Philippines

Country of
Aircraft Photo Quantity Notes
Origin
 Tail numbers PCG–684 and PCG-
Britten-
United 251. 2 more non-working units
Norman 2
Kingdom transferred by Philippine
Islander
National Police on July 2019.

1 of 2 grounded [20] PCG–163

(with hoist) - grounded; PCG-
1636 in service. 2 more Bo 105
MBB Bo 105 Germany 1 airframes plus parts transferred
by Philippine National Police on
July 2019. To be replaced by
Airbus H145

Airbus One ordered in July 2018, and

Helicopters France 0 (2) the second one in November
H145 2018.[21]

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