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2024

Annual Accomplishments

• Created a Committee for Artifact Procurement. The new committee is authorized to acquire items of historic interest to the Coast Guard with a value up to $500 per quarter. Larger purchases will still need to be presented to the full Board of Regents for approval, but this new committee enables the FCGH to act quickly in procuring items for donation to the Coast Guard that often appear on eBay, auction houses, etc., which move rapidly (and before full Board approval can be obtained). Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2023

Annual Accomplishments

• RADM Tim Riker, USCG (Ret.) relieved RADM John Acton, USCG (Ret.) as Chairman of the FCGH.
• Procured and donated to the Coast Guard’s Heritage Collection was a SPAR scrapbook. This process involved extraordinary efforts from volunteers April Killian and Donna Vojvodich, who located the book, helped get it scanned for an upcoming online presentation (thanks to Tina Claflin of Halcyon Reflections), and arranged for its delivery to the Historian’s collection. The scrapbook, filled with never-before-seen photos, was created by SPARs who trained at the Manhattan Beach Training Center.
• FCGH officers and members participated in the McMullen Naval History Symposium. Held at the U.S. Naval Academy, it is the largest international gathering of naval historians worldwide. Our members presented on two panels related to Coast Guard history and formed the largest group of Coast Guard presenters in the symposium’s history.
• Continue “Evening Reports” online history video presentations via Zoom.
• Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2022

Annual Accomplishments

• The FCGH was approached by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Coast Guard to consider providing a grant to support a graduate student studying at East Carolina University (ECU). The grant would fund the development of 3-D modeling work by graduate student Raymond Phipps (MA in maritime studies candidate, ECU). In addition to completing the construction of Bear models for use by the Foundation for Coast Guard History and other agencies listed in this proposal, Raymond will use the completed model data to write a thesis analyzing the technological, economic, cultural, political, and institutional influences that led to the vessel’s construction and modifications—from its original role as the sealer Bear (built in Dundee, Scotland, in 1874) through its service under an American flag (with various designations, most notably as USRC and USCGC Bear), until its loss as the Shaw Steamship Line’s Arctic Bear (off Nova Scotia in 1963). The purpose aligns with our mission to support Coast Guard history research. The request was approved, and the FCGH provided the grant.
• Presented a Letter of Appreciation to Ms. Jennifer Gaudio at her retirement ceremony. Ms. Jennifer Gaudio was the Curator of the Coast Guard Museum at the Coast Guard Academy for 13 years, until her recent retirement. During those 13 years, she had a profound impact not only on the museum she managed but also on the future officers of the Coast Guard.
• The FCGH partnered with Dr. Mark Snell, Chief Historian of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, and the University of Kansas Press to publish The Fighting Coast Guard: America’s Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century, with a foreword by Admiral Thad Allen, USCG (ret.). This book is a collection of essays written by some of the most knowledgeable authors of CG history.
• Continue “Evening Reports” online history video presentations via Zoom.
• Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2021

Annual Accomplishments

• The FCGH collaborated with George Abbott Clark, a multi-award-winning researcher, director, and writer with a PhD in anthropology and an MFA in film from the American Film Institute in Hollywood, to bring the story of the Overland Relief Expedition to the screen. The story is about the 99-day, 1,500-mile journey across Alaska, led by then LT David Jarvis, who drove a reindeer herd to rescue whalers stranded in ice in the northern reaches of Alaska. 
• COVID-19 continues to have a significant impact on our nation and the world. Most FCGH operations continue as we are a “virtual” organization that does not require in-person activities to produce our work product. It has, however, caused us to stop our “Coffee with the Historian,” given the current rules not allowing for in-person meetings or presentations at Coast Guard Headquarters.
• Continue “Evening Reports” online history video presentations via Zoom.
• Published two issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2020

Annual Accomplishments

• The Spring issue of The Cutter celebrated its 20^th anniversary since the first issue of The Cutter. The first issue, a two-page newsletter, has evolved into a quality magazine, often with 40+ pages of content.
• COVID-19 impacts our nation and the world. The FCGH annual awards are suspended due to many government operations being shut down.
• The Buffalo Naval Park advises the Coast Guard that they will break the agreement for hosting the Petri Coast Guard model collection at their museum. Arrangements are made for their professional removal and storage. The beginning of the story of the Petri models was told in the Bow Wave article of Cutter issue #35, Winter 2012, by Fred Herzberg.
• VADM Howard B. Thorsen, USCG (Ret.), CG Aviator 776 / Helo Pilot 442 / Ancient Albatross 13, and Chairman Emeritus of the Foundation, is introduced into the Coast Guard Aviation Association (CGAA) – “Pteros” – Hall of Honor (HOH).
• The Foundation supported the renovation of the Pentagon Coast Guard Memorial Hallway. Each service has a section along the hallway that showcases its history. The Coast Guard’s memorial, dating back to the 1980s, needed renovation. Because the memorial is located in the Pentagon, the revised memorial emphasizes wartime history.
• Started “Evening Reports” online history presentation via Zoom.
• Provided a Letter of Support to the Texas State Legislature in support of William Ray Flores’ nomination for the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor. Flores, an SN on the USCGC Blackthorn, made the ultimate sacrifice in the early evening as a crewmember of the 180-ft Blackthorn, which collided with the 605-ft SS Capricorn near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Blackthorn capsized and sank. Flores—only nineteen, and less than a year out of basic training—was seen with a shipmate passing out lifejackets. When the ship capsized, the shipmate entered the water, but he stayed behind, using his belt to tie the lifejacket locker door open, thereby ensuring that more jackets would float to the surface and assisting other shipmates. Flores, along with twenty-two other Coast Guardsmen, perished in the sinking, while twenty-seven shipmates survived; many of those survivors testified that Flores had played a major role in their survival. Flores would eventually have a cutter named after him.
• LCDR Tom Beard, USCG (ret.), editor of the FCGH book The Coast Guard, was awarded the Coast Guard’s Meritorious Public Service Award by Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz.
• Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2019

Annual Accomplishments

• The Coast Guard experiences a lapse in funding, and Coast Guard employees (Active Duty, Reserve, and Civilians) go without pay for 35 days.
• Continued engagement with the National Coast Guard Museum Association as an active participant in the Museum Exhibition Advisory Panel (MEAP).
• Procured and then donated to the Coast Guard collection, “Pay Roll for the Officers, Seamen & Others on Board the Revenue Cutter Surveyor from the 1st Day of April 1813.” You may recall Surveyor—of “Surveyor and Narcissus” fame from the lyrics of “Semper Paratus.” The reference is to the Surveyor’s surrender to a Royal Navy frigate. After the surrender the RN captain returned the RCS captain’s sword to him, saying, “Your gallant and desperate attempt to defend your vessel against more than double your number excited such admiration on the part of your opponents as I have seldom witnessed, and induced me to return you the sword you had so ably used, in testimony of mine.” This battle took place only three months after the payroll was dated, and the payroll includes the names of many involved in the fight.
• Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2018

Annual Accomplishments

• Announced Annual Awards:
  • Large Unit History Award Winner: The winner of the large unit award is CGC Hamilton (WMSL 753). The widespread usage of the cutter’s public Facebook page to post pictures, videos, and share articles posted by other agencies reached over 22,000 people and generated 1,100 followers in 2017. The unit’s Eight Bells Video contest-winning video generated over 3,800 views and 179 likes on YouTube, and 54,000 views and 1,200 likes on Facebook. The cutter honored the 75th anniversary of the sinking of Alexander Hamilton (WPG 34) with a ceremony that included a representative from the families of the sailors lost in the sinking. During Fleet Week New York City 2017, the cutter hosted a wreath-laying ceremony at Alexander Hamilton’s grave at Trinity Church, then held a reception and separate harbor cruise for cast members of “Hamilton: An American Musical.” The crew hosted 4,500 visitors in 2017 on tours focusing on the unit’s history, strengthening ties with the Alexander Hamilton Society and the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, as well as with descendants of Alexander Hamilton.
  • Small Unit History Award Winner: The winner of the small unit award is USCGC John McCormick (WPC 1121). The cutter’s commissioning crew made immediate efforts to cement a strong bond with the ship’s sponsor, Mrs. Linda Jarmer, John McCormick’s granddaughter, and the rest of John McCormick’s extended family. The crew ensured that the family was heavily involved in the creation of the ship’s crest, ultimately picking a design and motto that reflected the family’s wishes for honoring his legacy. After giving the Jarmer family a tour of the ship in Key West, FL, the crew arranged for a sunset happy hour with them aboard the decommissioned USCGC Ingham, a celebrated cutter that served from 1936 to 1988 and is now a museum in Key West. USCGC Ingham is the same ship upon which Boatswain McCormick was awarded his Gold Lifesaving medal in November 1938. As part of John McCormick’s transit to homeport, the crew coordinated a port visit to Astoria, OR, as most of John McCormick’s extended family lives in Oregon. Astoria is also near the site of his heroic rescue just inside the Columbia River Bar, so the crew coordinated with Station Cape Disappointment to arrange a ceremonial passing of the site of the rescue. The cutter carefully timed its crossing of the Columbia River Bar to meet with two vessels from Station Cape Disappointment, the Triumph II, a rendition of the original Triumph, which John McCormick coxswained during his heroic rescue, as family members watched from a 47-foot motor lifeboat. CAPT Ole Olsen, USCG (ret.), the grandson of Chief Motor Machinist Mate Albert L. Olsen, did the ship the honor of raising the commissioning pennant. CAPT Olsen is the grandson of Chief Motor Machinist Mate Albert L. Olsen, who was Boatswain McCormick’s machinist mate during their heroic rescue in 1938. The crew continued correspondence with the family and others through the creation of a quarterly newsletter.
  • Special Recognition Awards. CDR William McKinstry. CDR McKinstry was called upon by the Coast Guard Historian to assist as a member of the Fast Response Cutter (FRC) Naming Tiger Team to assist in the location of relatives of personnel to have the honor of having a FRC named for them. He volunteered to serve on this team and located numerous relatives who have since participated in and attended various commissioning ceremonies nationwide. As lead investigator for the Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian, he used research skills to glean valuable information regarding FRC namesakes and other subjects of Coast Guard historical interest. He quickly completed research and spoke to several surviving family members to ensure their participation during future FRC commissioning ceremonies. His efforts led to the enhancement of Coast Guard personnel’s awareness of Coast Guard history service-wide. His research also led to the discovery of several famous enlisted members of the Coast Guard whose names have been added to the list of influential Coast Guard personnel on the Coast Guard Historian’s website.
  • Multimedia Award: ETCM Bill Dietz, USCG (ret.), and ETCS Joe Jester, USCG (ret.). ETCM Dietz and ETCS Jester expended considerable volunteer hours over many years chronicling the history of the Coast Guard’s involvement with the LOng RAnge Navigation (LORAN) system, primarily through their “Loran-History Info” website: http://www.loran-history.info. Using video, photographs, oral histories, and more, they have shed light on a very important, yet little-known, element of Coast Guard History. The website provides details on more than 200 USCG units involved in the development, implementation, support, and operation of various LORAN incarnations from the early 1940s to the present, including location, equipment types, transmission frequencies, station designations, testing and operational dates, and more. Each site has a listing of personnel assigned, documents related to the station, photographs, and personal stories of those assigned to the station.
• CAPT Fred Herzberg, FCGH Founder, published our organizational history, entitled Genesis: The Creation of the Foundation for Coast Guard History.
• Presented framed prints recognizing the service’s new Silver Ancient Mariner, BMCM Matthew J. Coppola, and Gold Ancient Mariner, CAPT Stephen Matadobra.
• FCGH participated in the 11^th Maritime Heritage Conference, which was held in conjunction with the 45th annual conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships, the 55th annual meeting of the National Maritime Historical Society, and the 82nd annual meeting of the Steamship Historical Society of America. This was the first time the FCGH participated in this conference, and we provided speakers and panel moderators. Thanks to FCGH Regent CAPT Bob Desh, USCG (ret.), and Mr. John Galluzzo, our Annual Awards Committee chairman, both of whom did a great job representing FCGH before the assembled audience.
• FCGH support for the creation of a National Coast Guard Museum continues. Our members were part of a team that presented a proposal for the educational portion of the museum’s development, the Museum Education Initiative (MEL) which includes three components: (1) a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) center focused on visits from local schools, (2) a “virtual shipmate” program that will make use of technology to allow “shipmates” from Coast Guard history to guide visitors through the museum, and (3) a visitor qualification program that will allow visitors to use their time during their visit to the museum to “qualify” in several Coast Guard specialties, such as small boat coxswain or marine investigator, as they learn Coast Guard history.
• Continued to support the Coast Guard Historian’s Office with their quarterly “Historian’s Coffee.”
• Supported the Historian’s Office during their commemoration of the loss of USCGC Tampa near the end of World War. Secretary of Homeland Security, the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen was the keynote speaker.
• Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2017

Annual Accomplishments

• Announced Annual Awards:
  • Large Unit History Award Winner: The winner of the Large Unit award is Training Center Cape May. With approximately 80% of the service’s workforce passing through its halls, Training Center Cape May understands and embraces its important role as keeper of the service’s history. But the Training Center is not just a showplace of the Coast Guard’s past for the recruits, it’s the most-visited unit in the service, hosting more than 40,000 visitors annually. It’s also home to many reunions, as, for example, in 2016, reunion groups from the cutters Bibb, Westwind, and Duane reconnected on the grounds. Buildings at TRACEN Cape May are dedicated in memory of the service’s most widely recognized heroes (Douglas Munro, Ida Lewis, Richard Etheridge, Charles W. David, etc.). Most recently, TRACEN Cape May dedicated its seamanship building in memory of Bernard Webber, the hero of the 1952 Pendleton rescue off Chatham, Massachusetts.
  • Small Unit History Award Winner: The winner of the Small Unit award is Aids to Navigation Team (ANT) Coos Bay [OR]. In celebration of their 40th anniversary, ANT Coos Bay dedicated their building on 29 April 2016 in honor of Nils P. Adamson and Chester N. Adamson, civilian United States Lighthouse Service (USLHS) members who ran the unit from 1911 through 1976. ANT Coos Bay invited descendants of those two men to be present for the ceremony and share their family history of working aids to navigation in the area. During the ceremony, historical artifacts were on display, and the crew built a display “visible to all visitors highlighting the activities of the civilian USLHS members that maintained the Aids to Navigation in the Coos Bay area prior to the establishment of ANT Coos Bay.” During the year, members of the crew also began the process of identifying, restoring, and maintaining the gravesites of deceased Life-Saving Service and Lighthouse Service personnel in the Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery. The OIC also joined historian Tim Dring, CDR, USN (Ret.), in compiling a 76-page historical summary of aids to navigation in Coos Bay, forwarding a copy to the Coast Guard Historian’s Office (CG-09231).
  • Special Recognition Awards.
    • Dr. Sally Snowman. Dr. Snowman is the first female keeper of Boston Lighthouse in its 301-year history. She oversees a staff of 100 volunteer historical site interpreters who welcome approximately 3,000 visitors per year to Little Brewster Island, working with numerous nonprofit and governmental agencies to identify and train those volunteers. Toward that end, she wrote the first interpretive historical guide to train Coast Guard Auxiliarists, Park Rangers, and her army of volunteers. She is also the author of the definitive history of the lighthouse, Boston Light: A Historical Perspective. During 2016, as the lighthouse celebrated its tercentennial anniversary, Dr. Snowman conducted outreach consisting of more than 100 presentations to an additional 2,500 people. She coordinated the safety and education of visitors to the island during CEU Providence’s $1.5 million lighthouse restoration project on the island, helping prepare for the 300th anniversary celebration in September 2016, attended by Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard Paul Zukunft.
    • Dr. Richard Zuczek. Responding to the concern of then-Commandant of the Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp, among others, that cadets at the Coast Guard Academy were not being taught the history of their own service, Dr. Zuczek in 2012 began development of the institution’s first-ever academic Coast Guard history course. Since that year, 1,241 future leaders of the Coast Guard have taken the course in 60 sections under 30 military and civilian faculty members. Cadets have learned about the well-known heroes of the Coast Guard, but also themes spread across all missions and from the perspectives of all Coast Guard communities, while also “raising important questions about race and gender by examining the experiences of African Americans and women in the service.” The course includes walking tours of the campus, an in-depth exploration of the Coast Guard History Museum, lectures by guest speakers, and more. Dr. Zuczek has expanded the course’s impact by delivering it in shortened form at the Leadership Development Center for 120 Midgrade Officer and Civilian Transition course students, and by speaking to interested public groups about Coast Guard history.
    • C. Wayne Ormsbee and PO Keisha Kerr. Civilian Wayne Ormsbee and his daughter, Petty Officer Keisha Kerr, have spent the last five years re-enacting the Coast Guard mounted beach patrol of World War II. As volunteer interpreters, they have scoured the Internet for authentic uniforms and equipment for use in their historical interpretations as parts of parades, civic celebrations, veterans’ events, and horse shows. First Coast Guard District External Affairs interviewed them over a two-week period and produced media that reached more than 29,500 people via the Coast Guard Compass blog, Cape Cod Daily News, CapeCod.com, and NH1 News.
    • D. LT Jason Brownlee and LT Amanda Montour. LT Jason Brownlee and LT Amanda Montour served as Air Station Houston’s Aviation Centennial Team in 2016 to develop “a comprehensive public affairs advertising plan to celebrate 100 years of Coast Guard Aviation” in the nation’s fourth-largest city. They coordinated 20 static displays, 24 flight and SAR demonstrations, and 52 speaking engagements, and utilized social media to reach 1.3 million people during their campaign. High-visibility moments included Super Bowl LI and the NCAA Final Four men’s basketball tournament, a “Flight Suit Formal,” a ceremonial cake cutting on the birthday of the Coast Guard’s first aviator, Elmer F. Stone, and more. LT Brownlee and LT Montour arranged for one of the Air Station’s mechanics to fly to the Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City, NC, to assist in restoring CGNR 1426 in preparation for enshrinement in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
    • Letters of recognition will also go to the following nominees:
      • LCDR Matthew Kroll
      • R. Keith Colby, LDCR USCG (ret.)
      • SK2 Leander Hicks
      • Miss Megan Gimple
      • Auxiliarist John W. Keyes
• Continued engagement with the National Coast Guard Museum Association as an active participant in the Museum Exhibition Advisory Panel (MEAP).
• Continued to support the Coast Guard Historian’s Office with their quarterly “Historian’s Coffee.”
• Created a formal “Speaker’s Bureau.” Previously, FCGH Officers and Board of Regents members have spoken at various local events through informal connections. The establishment of the Bureau provides outside organizations a point of contact to request speakers.
• Published the 50^th issue of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2016

Annual Accomplishments

• Having sold out all copies of our previous editions of The Coast Guard, our signature coffee table book, and with copies now going for more than $300 on Amazon.com, we have printed a third edition. Updated with a chapter featuring USCG Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft, our editor, LCDR Tom Beard, USCG (Ret.), once again produced an exceptional book.
• Joining forces with the National Coast Guard Museum Association (NCGMA) in its effort to establish a National Coast Guard Museum, a founding goal of the Foundation, the Foundation co-sponsored the establishment of the Museum Exhibit Advisory Panel (MEAP). The goal of the MEAP is to gather input from organizations that have been working to preserve, showcase, and educate the public about the United States Coast Guard and its predecessor services, as well as their contributions to the Nation.
  
  Purpose and Function. The Museum Exhibit Advisory Panel (MEAP) is responsible for providing input and offering recommendations regarding the exhibition design for the future National Coast Guard Museum.
  
  Primary Responsibilities. The Museum Exhibit Advisory Panel (MEAP) will:
  
  
  • Identify potential exhibit themes that best represent the Coast Guard’s past, present, and future.
  • Respond to requests for architectural input and review of exhibit space design, use of technology, and traffic flow to maximize the museum visitor experience.
  • Serve as active sponsors and advocates for promoting the museum within each member’s respective organization.
    
• Panel Composition. The Museum Exhibit Advisory Panel (MEAP) comprises representatives from interested non-profit organizations and CG representatives who aim to preserve and promote the culture and traditions of the United States Coast Guard. Additionally, the Panel will include museum subject matter experts and an active Coast Guard historian(s) and curator(s). The following organizations have been participating since January 2016.
  
  • Association for Rescue at Sea
  • Commandant’s National Coast Guard Retiree Council
  • Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association
  • Coast Guard Auxiliary Association
  • Coast Guard Auxiliary
  • Coast Guard Aviation Association
  • Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Association
  • Coast Guard Combat Veterans Association
  • Coast Guard Cuttermen Association
  • Coast Guard Women’s Leadership Initiative
  • USCG Lightship Sailors International Association, Inc.
  • National Council of Coast Guard Spouses’ Councils
  • Various Regional Maritime Museum Directors
  • United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
  • United States Lighthouse Society
  • United States Navy Memorial
  • United States Coast Guard Academy
  • United States Coast Guard Research & Development Center
  • Naval Order of the United States
    

• Purchased for the USCG Historian’s Office historic items that belonged to RADM Randolph Ridgely, Jr., who retired as a Rear Admiral in 1935. RADM Ridgely had entered the service through the Revenue Cutter Service. As the US Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association notes, “RADM Ridgely was awarded the Navy Cross in 1918 for his performance “in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines” during WWI. He later went on to serve as superintendent of the Academy (1932-1935) immediately following its move to its current location.” The building that houses the USCG Maritime Force Protection Unit Kings Bay is named for him.

• In conjunction with the USCG, the Foundation revised the Annual Unit and Individual Awards program, making the submission process easier and clarifying the criteria, categories, and awards.
• Participated in the filming of a TV short history about VADM James A. Hirshfield and his WWII heroics. CAPT Fred Herzberg, USCG (Ret.), was the “talking head” who put each part of the story into perspective.
• Provided speaker for the breakfast honoring Coast Guard Spouses in Sturgeon Bay, WI. This breakfast was co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Navy League and Roen Salvage Company.
• CDR Paul Fawcett relieved CAPT Rick Batson as Treasurer.
• Continued sponsorship of Coast Guard History Award to the Honor graduates of each Chief Warrant Officer Professional Development Class.
• Published two issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.

2015

Annual Accomplishments

• Starting in 2008, John Longnecker, Captain (ret) Carl Zellner, USCGR, and Captain (ret) Fred Herzberg urged the U.S. Postal Service to issue a sheet of stamps depicting the history and missions of the Coast Guard. Each of the other services has at least several stamps, but the CG had only a series of 35 about lighthouses, only one of which had any visible Coast Guard connection. On 4 August, in Washington D.C. at CG Headquarters, John and Fred participated in the first-day-of-issue ceremonies (Carl had passed away without knowing of his success).

• Facilitated the permanent loan of the last operational 41′ UTB to the Door County (WI) Maritime Museum for a static display honoring all who served in these tough response boats. Helped developed an informational reader board to be included in the display.
• Assisted in the design and installation of a fun and educational exhibit titled “Sea Dogs” at the Door County (WI) Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Exhibit features “Sinbad”, the mascot dog on USCGC Campbell during WWII, the WWII Beach Patrol, modern day CG working dogs, and other CG history elements.
• The Foundation recognized the outstanding efforts of BM1 Mike Jenkins of Port Angeles Station, who single-handedly created a major exhibit in the Clallam County Historical Society Museum depicting the history of the Coast Guard and each of the three Stations in Clallam County.
• The Foundation, along with our peer historical foundations from the DoD services, co-sponsored and participated in the “Violent Skies” symposium at the National Defense University. This event, commemorating the role of aviation in the Vietnam War, was attended by several hundred people.
• Conducted a comprehensive overhaul of the FCGH’s website with the help of Jim Muller of Kainalu Designs.
• Continued sponsorship of Coast Guard History Award to the Honor Graduate of each Chief Warrant Officer Professional Development Class.
• Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.