Administrative complaints filed Thursday seek $10 million each for 13 former cadets who say they were sexually assaulted from the 1980s to recent years.
The Coast Guard’s top officer fielded questions about the service’s response to a report of decades of sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
The service works over 3.4 million square miles of Exclusive Economic Zones and defends a coastline longer than the border between the U.S. and Mexico.