"One such aircraft was a Coast Guard C-130 that had previously been set to transport detained migrants from California to Texas. Noem told the acting commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane from the search and rescue mid-flight so as not to miss the transport. Lunday communicated Noem's verbal instruction to the National Command Center, which diverted the plane to San Diego to complete its part in DHS's Alien Expulsion Operation."
"Coast Guard command in San Diego ultimately found two available aircraft to transport the migrants to Texas, allowing the C-130 to return to the search and rescue mission after about an hour. A DHS spokesperson told NBC that the C-130 never left the search for the Coast Guard member, who was never found, and that there is no documentation that the plane was pulled off the mission."
In February last year, a twenty-three-year-old Coast Guard official went overboard during operations in the Pacific and was not found. Multiple Coast Guard aircraft, including a C-130, searched for the missing guardsman. The C-130 had been scheduled to transport detained migrants from California to Texas when Secretary Kristi Noem instructed Acting Commandant Admiral Kevin Lunday to pull the plane mid-flight to avoid missing the transport. The instruction was relayed to the National Command Center and the plane was diverted to San Diego while other aircraft completed the transport. DHS stated the C-130 never left the search and no documentation shows it was pulled; sources said the episode heightened tensions between Noem and the Coast Guard amid a shift toward border security.
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