Department of Coastal Defense - Let's bring in the military's expertise to help with BP oil disaster

It's time to put America's skilled and dedicated military in charge of responding to the BP oil disaster, argue Daniel J. Weiss, Rudy deLeon, and Susan Lyon in this CAP repost.

In this AP photo, members of the U.S. Army National Guard B Company 711 put Hesco containers designed to absorb oil along the beaches of Dauphin Island, AL, on May 2, 2010. The Obama administration has authorized 17,500 National Guard troops from the Gulf Coast states to respond to the disaster.

The National Guard...