The U.S. Coast Guard is facing its largest readiness crisis since World War II. That's according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who promised an overhaul of the service that she called the “point of the spear” in the nation’s defense.

As U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets and their families arrived on the New London campus in Connecticut Wednesday morning for graduation, protesters filled nearby McKinley Park to voice their opposition to the academy’s commencement speaker,

Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, made some major announcements during her keynote speech at the 144th Commencement Exercise at the Coast Guard Academy in New London on Wednesday.