Are Auxiliary chartered Sea Scout Ships’ property considered personal property of the United States pursuant to 14 U.S.C. § 3901 ( d)?

The BSA states that Sea Scout Ships are not legal entities but merely extensions of the chartering entity. As discussed herein, Sea Scout Ships are not organizational units or elements of the Coast Guard Auxiliary unless 100% of its members are also enrolled in the Auxiliary, in which case the Ship will become a detachment of the chartering unit. Given the BSA’ s analysis, personal property of a Sea Scout Ship chartered by the Auxiliary would belong to the chartering unit and therefore considered property of the United States for purposes of 14 u.s.c. § 3901(d).