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BRAVO ZULU 4th Quarter 2021 1 OCT-DEC
Bravo Zulu
Point Bonita Flotilla 17 D11N, CA
Cheboygan, Michigan. – Lake Michigan USCGC Mackinaw 30 – Buoy/Ice Breaker vessel photo by USCG
‘Chicago’s Christmas Tree Ship’
4th Quarter2021 BRAVO ZULU News Magazine
USCG AUXILIARY

Table of Contents Q-4, 2021
Staff and Contributors
Editors: Bravo Zulu 2021 Q-4
FSO Public Affairs – Roger Bazeley PA1
FSO Publications – Roger Bazeley
Creative Staff: Design, Layout
Roger Bazeley PA1, PA/PB-FSO
Photographer, Design and Layout
Andrew Niquette Article Layout/Contributor
Advisory Staff Officers:
Renee Thomas, 2021 FC
Gail Giacomini NAVEX BA Assistant. Editor
Article Contributors Q-4:
Commodore Vincent Pica D1SR
Roger Bazeley NAVEX Editor , PA Flotilla 1-7
Commandant Karl Schultz USCG
Nicole Groll PO 2
Tiffany Townsend & Roger Bazeley
Dawn Muller
Dan Turner BC Aviation Safety
Photography Contributors Q-4:
Roger Bazeley AUX PA-1, D11N Photographer
Tiffany Townsend D11N Photographer
Cover Photo: Yerba Buena, Calif. – Sector San Francisco
USCGC Mackinaw homeport Cheboygan, Michigan USCG
Auxiliary Aviation Poster:: USCG Air Station SF, Auxiliary
Bell H-1 1957 Helicopter and ACOMS Van, Photo: Roger
Bazeley Page 45
Photos Pages 58-61 : BRISBANE, Calif. –Brisbane, CA –
Saturday at 0900 hours on February 27th the USCG District 11
North crew of the Auxiliary Facility SILVER CHARM
participated in their first COVID-19 Phase Two Rollout
training assignment together in their operational ’bubble’
consisting of Coxswain and vessel Owner Terry Blanchard,
Crew Tiffany Townsend, Gary Kaplan, and Crew Trainee
Cassandra Mani. They met all District 11 North testing and
Corvid-19 protocols, safety equipment check list and
performing the GAR Risk Management Assessment before
heading out into the Bay for the days training. USCGAUX
Photos by Roger Bazeley U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary PA1
*Q-4 Issue Dedicated to the remembrance of William Burns
Articles + Content
FYI: Point Bonita Flotilla/ Lighthouse History…3
About the Auxiliary …4 Auxiliary Four Corner Stones…5
From the Commandant-New London USCG Museum…6-7
Chain of Leadership…8 Steps for Leadership….9
Paddle Craft Photo by Bazeley & Save a Life Poster….10-11
Culinary Assistance aboard USCGC Healy….12-13
2021 Boating Safety – Boat Squat…14-17
VDAM Linda Fagan On Patrol with Auxiliary…18-19
USCGC Change of Command 2017 – Auxiliary support…20-21
Paddle-craft ID Sticker Program…22-23
Cell Phones 911 for Mariners in distress…24-25
Public Affairs Change of Command Augmentation D11…26-33
USCGC MUNRO History and Family Cruise …34-41
Commandant-Vaccinations COVID-19 –AUX-A …42
Cyber Security How Safe are you?...44
Join USCG Auxiliary Aviation…45
Auxiliary AUX AIR During COVID-19…46-47
USCGC Mackinaw – Chicago’s Christmas Tree Ship…48-49
Christmas Tre Schooner History – Rouse Simmons…50-52
USCG WW2 Sea Cloud Veteran and Auxiliary turns 98…54-55
Silver Charm: Crew Training Re-deployment...58-60
SF Fleet Week 2021… 62-67
Auxiliary Public Affairs Mission……68-69
USCG Assists ‘Operation Christmas Drop’ …70-71
Bugler’s Call at the Presidio…72 Aux- Chaplain Program…73
In Remembrance: Willian Burns D11N F-17 Auxiliary Aviator,
FC Leader, Mentor and Shipmate to all. 74-81
Back Cover: San Francisco—St. Francis Yacht Club Marina
Photos: Roger Bazeley PA1 Page 86
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POINT BONITA FLOTILLA 17, SF, CA
POINT BONITA LIGHTHOUSE HISTORY
Tower Information
Tower Height: 33.00'
Focal Plane: 140'
Active Aid to Navigation
Latitude: 37.81559 N
Longitude:-122.52950 W
National Park Service Historic Achieves – Photos and Historic Documentation
With the discovery of gold in 1848, California and the world changed forever. San Francisco became the main
port for gold seekers from around the globe. To lead the new settlers and explorers safely through the dangerous
waters of the Bay entrance, a system of lighthouses was developed. Alcatraz’s light showed the way for ships
directly in front of the Golden Gate and Fort Point’s lighthouse marked the southern edge of San Francisco Bay,
but another lighthouse was needed north of the Golden Gate to make the entrance recognizable for ships sailing
up the coast from the south. That lighthouse site became Point Bonita.
Point Bonita Lighthouse, the third lighthouse on the West Coast, was completed in 1855. Built upon a high
ridge 300 feet above the water, there were soon complaints that thick fog frequently obscured the light beam. A
new site at a lower elevation was chosen nearby at the tip of Point Bonita. Unstable rock made construction of a
hand-hewn tunnel and trail to the site challenging. A new 3-room brick structure was built to support the upper
half of the original lighthouse that was moved to the new site in 1877. On December 26, 1896, George Cobb
the lighthouse keeper of the Point Bonita lighthouse rescued three young men who came close to drowning
nearby. For this feat George Cobb was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal. The USCGC GEORGE COBB
that was launched in December 18, 1999 was the last of 14 “Keeper Class” coastal buoy tenders named for
lighthouse keepers, and is named in his honor.
Left: USCGC GEORGE COBB departing Sector SF - Right: Point Bonita Lighthouse at Sunset;
Photos: Roger Bazeley

ABOUT THE
AUXILIARY
Who we are and what we do
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCGAUX)
is the uniformed auxiliary service of the United States
Coast Guard (USCG). The Auxiliary exists to support all
USCG missions except roles that require "direct" law
enforcement or military engagement. As of 2019, there
were approximately 22,000 members of the U.S. Coast
Guard Auxiliary.
Established by Congress in 1939 the United States Coast
Guard Auxiliary motto is Semper Paratus (Always
Ready). We invite you to learn more about who and
what we do as members of TEAM COAST GUARD.
The Auxiliary areas of operation:
- Recreational Boating Safety and Education
- Public Affairs and Community Outreach
- Safety and Security Patrols – Ports/Waterways
- Search and Rescue Mission Support
- Food Specialists for USCG events/ships (AUXCA)
- Mass Casualty and Disaster Assistance
- Pollution Response & Environmental Patrols
- Commercial Fishing and Vessel Exams
- Platforms for USCG Training – Helicopter OPS
- Recruitment for Coast Guard Auxiliary/USCG (AUP)
In addition to the above, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
operates in any mission as directed by the Commandant
of the U.S. Coast Guard or Secretary of Homeland
Security. Our mission is to promote and improve
Recreational Boating Safety, to provide trained crews
and facilities to augment the Coast Guard and enhance
safety and security of our ports, waterways, and coastal
regions, and to support Coast Guard operational,
administrative, and logistical requirements.

AUXILIARY FOUR CORNOR STONES
Deborah Heldt Cordone | AUXPA1

SAUSALITO, CA..- Trek Kayaking Photo by Roger Bazeley

Photo by Roger Bazeley

Auxiliary Culinary Assistant’s Augment aboard USCGC HEALY U SCG
Icebreaker
Story by USCG Chief Petty Officer Matt Masaschi.
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary currently has three Auxiliarists working aboard USCGC Healy, two Culinary
Assistants, Patrick Wolcott (District 13) and Joseph Woodbury (District 7), and one Public Affairs Specialist,
Deborah Heldt Cordone (District 13), AUXPA1. Mr. Wolcott and Mr. Woodbury were onboard while Healy was
circumnavigating North America. Ms. Cordone came onboard in Baltimore for the second part of the voyage,
traversing the Panama Canal and back to Healey's homeport in Seattle.
Caption – U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarists Patrick Wolcott (District 13) and Joseph Woodbury (District 7) serving lunch to our
distinguished visitors in the Captain's cabin. Mr. Wolcott and Mr. Woodbury have been aboard the HEALY, volunteering to
cook and serve meals to the crew. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Deborah Heldt Cordone, AUX PA1.
Long before the Coast Guard Cutter Healy’s (WAGB 20) crew took in their lines mid-July to get underway for a
months-long Arctic deployment, preparations for the ship and crew were being made. A major element of any cutter
deployment is ensuring the galley is adequately staffed to prepare and serve four meals a day to the crew. The
command staff of the HEALY, a 420-foot medium icebreaker, made plans to serve the increased number of
personnel of more than 120 crewmembers and scientists deployed aboard for the 2021 patrol (circumnavigating the
North American continent across the frigid Arctic through the Northwest Passage, then back home through the
Panama Canal), by seeking additional culinary specialists. As the Coast Guard was currently short of Culinary
Specialists, a last-minute request for help made it to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, which had members from across the
country qualified, who immediately vied for the opportunity to assist.

Two Auxiliarists who answered the call to join HEALY for their Arctic expedition were first-class culinary assistants
Pat Wolcott and Joe Woodbury. Wolcott, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant and a retired police officer, was
not a stranger to underway life or working in the kitchen. Wolcott had deployed aboard HEALY for their 2019 Arctic
patrol. Also, years ago, he and his wife owned a diner for ten years in their hometown of Logan, Utah. Wolcott met
HEALY in their Seattle Homeport and went to work right away. Woodbury, a retired Army Lt. Colonel from Lake City,
South Carolina, joined HEALY a few weeks later in Seward, Alaska. They both sailed aboard serving hot meals to
the crew until the cutter returned home to Seattle in late fall. The two Auxiliarists, along with the Healy’s galley staff,
spent seven days a week slicing, dicing, baking, grilling, prepping and serving food to the crew. Wolcott and
Woodbury estimate, they had prepared and or served more than 20,000 meals by the end of the patrol.
“A ship’s morale starts in the galley,” said Wolcott. “Our job, beside integrating into the ship’s company and routine,
is to allow that morale to foster with the first meal of that person’s day. We do this by a cheerful greeting, and
acknowledgement of how glad we are to see them.” By the end of Healy’s patrol, Wolcott spent 277 days in 2021
cooking aboard Coast Guard cutters. Prior to meeting HEALY in Seattle, he spent more than two months cooking
aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bluebell in Portland, Ore., for their crew of 15.
In Woodbury’s eleven years in the Auxiliary, he had cooked aboard the Coast Guard Cutters HAMILTON, JAMES
and ANVIL, and at Stations Charlestown and Georgetown. But reading the opportunity to cook aboard HEALY for
this patrol was unlike any he’d seen before. “From the second I saw the request for culinary assistants aboard
HEALY, I began calling and emailing everyone across the country to get a spot aboard for their journey around
North America,” said Woodbury. “It was a surreal experience to read HEALY was going across the Arctic and
around the continent with the unique combination of crewmembers and civilian scientists aboard. Every day I woke
up aboard, I still felt like it's surreal to be here."
Coast Guard Auxiliarists, like Wolcott and Woodbury, augment and assist active-duty crews across the Coast
Guard. Their contributions are widespread and significant, from serving as watchstanders at small boat stations,
conducting vessel safety exams, and serving aboard cutters. Healy’s galley would have been significantly
understaffed during this patrol had it not been for the tremendous efforts of Wolcott and Woodbury. They upended
their lives on short notice to answer the call to duty. They, like so many Auxiliarists, are such an important part of the
Coast Guard.
"The Auxiliary's culinary assistant program's main mission is to support the Coast Guard in their galleys whether it is
a land unit, aboard a cutter in port or at sea," said Paulette Parent, the Coast Guard Auxiliary's National Director for
the Culinary Assistant's program. "Currently there are nearly 300 active members in the program encompassing all
Coast Guard districts. The dedication and enthusiasm of the Auxiliary culinary assistants who support the Coast
Guard is a tribute to our program. The ever-increasing requests for assistance from the Coast Guard reflect well on
the program and we are proud to support our active-duty shipmates.”
An opportunity to circumnavigate North America was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Wolcott and Woodbury.
Though the days were long and the work at times seemed never-ending, the Coast Guard Auxiliary culinary
assistants were happy for the opportunity to interact with everyone throughout the day as one after another crew
passed their plates over for a serving of the day's hot meals and a warm smile.
Coast Guard Cutter HEALY (WAGB 20) USCG Public Affairs Achieves

You Know “Boat Trim” –
But Do You Know “Boat Squat?”
by Vincent Pica
Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR),
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
When I teach seamanship classes, somebody inevitably raises their hand and asks about how "flat" the boat
should be? I ask, "By 'flat,' I am guessing that you mean relative to her waterline? But do you mean when she
is sitting at the dock, going slowly forward but only at a ‘slow bell*’ or making all deliberate speed?” As their
eyes glaze over, I know that we will have to take it by the numbers. This column is about those numbers.
Boat Trim
Understanding boat trim and boat squat are all about control and avoiding running aground. For a "planning
boat," i.e., those boats we’re most familiar with that buzz around the bays and creeks, usually with an outboard
engine on the stern, that “climb up” onto the water as they go faster, trim are synonymous with every aspect of
the boat. Whether it be at the dock, barely making way or operating "at speed," how 'flat' she rides is largely
under the control of the skipper, and they should be constantly aware of what trim they are assuming. This trim
is best controlled by what angle you place the outboard engine relative to the transom.
Huh? Usually, in the throttle, there is a thumb control that, when you press it "down," brings the propeller in
closer to the transom. See figure 1.
Figure 1 – courtesy of the USCG Auxiliary
Bringing the propeller closer to the transom, you force the bow down from its manufactured waterline. When
would you want to do that? How about if you were heading into strong wave action? If your bow were
trimmed 'up,' the force of the waves would accentuate that, possibly making it more difficult to see – and to
control the boat. Commensurately, if you press the thumb control to bring the engine "up." it moves the
propeller away from the transom, forcing the bow up from its manufactured waterline.
Figure 2 - courtesy of the USCG Auxiliary

Why would you do that? Well, there are several reasons. One reason is that a powered vessel's fuel
consumption improves as you reduce its wetted surface. So, as you are cruising down the bay, you can trim the
engine up and save fuel at a given rate of speed. Secondly, if you are willing to throw fuel efficiency to the
wind, sort to speak, a powered vessel goes faster with less of a wetted surface. And, as you bring the bow up,
you reduce the wetted (in the water) surface. Compare how much more of figure 1 is below the waterline
versus figure 2.
Boat Squat
Unless you are driving one of those "battlewagons" out there or are involved in commercial navigation, you've
probably never heard of "boat squat." Even if you are in those situations, you still may not have heard of it –
and it is critical to understanding why a boat with 4 feet of draft hits the bottom in 5 feet of water.
When any boat is making its way through the water, she starts by pushing a large amount of water ahead of her.
If she is a planning vessel, she'll climb up on that wave as she picks up sufficient speed. But if she is a "big 'un,"
she won't be planning anytime in this lifetime. She is a displacement vessel. So, this water that is pushed ahead
returns to the side and under the boat's bottom. As she starts to put on some way (speed), imagine this water
cycle building up speed under the ship. This water cycle causes a drop in water pressure under the boat and
causes the ship to drop vertically in the water. This process is "boat squat," and how a boat with 4 feet of draft
may hit bottom in 5 feet of water. (Hint: go slow in shallow water, "Big 'Un.")
Now, for a displacement vessel, "trim" is different from "squat." Trim is the difference between the forward and
aft draft while the boat is stationary. As she gets underway and her aspect to her water lines changes, she is
affecting squat. Naval architects justifiably worry about whether she has forward or aft squat (leans forward or
aft as she builds speed.) This forward or aft squat is largely determined by her center of gravity and her "block
coefficient," which is the volume of the hull (V) divided by the Length of her Water Line (LWL) times the
(maximum) Beam of her Water Line (BWL) times her draft. If you draw a box around the submerged part of
the ship, it is the ratio of the box volume occupied by the ship.
So, now, you can say that you do "know squat!"
* a "slow bell" means making way at the minimum speed the boat can maintain steerage. Larger boats with
exposure to the wind need more speed to maintain steerage than smaller, low-profile boats.
CHICAGO—Skyline from Auxiliary Patrol headed toward breakwater lighthouse. Photo by USCG Auxiliary Public Affairs

VADM Linda Fagan USCG
On Patrol with Auxiliary
By Tiffany Townsend

Team Coast Guard, partners urge paddle craft labeling
Kayak Vessel Exam and Name Sticker application by, Auxiliarists Dale Fajardo and Sue Fry– Photos: Roger Bazeley AUXPA1
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard and its state boating safety agency partners urge the labeling of paddle craft and
owner responsibility on the waters of the Pacific Northwest and Nationally. Reports of unmanned and adrift
paddle craft divert federal, state and local response boat and air crews on hundreds of dangerous and costly
searches that turn out to be false alarms. Since 2016, 13th
Coast Guard District aircraft and vessels have
launched on 746 individual cases of vessel reported capsized and adrift.
All were unmanned and adrift, not resulting in an actual distress. Each case represents a minimum cost of
approximately $40,000 to the taxpayers to respond and conduct searches for possible persons in the water. For
the 13th
District, this accounts for an operational cost of approximately $29,840,000.00.
The Coast Guard treats every distress call and report of an unmanned paddle craft as if a real life is at stake.
"Unmanned adrift vessel search and rescue responses are the No. 4 response activity in the Coast Guard
nationwide,” said Dan Shipman, recreational boating program specialist for the 13th
District. “By properly
securing your small craft, on the beach, dock or your vessel from being set adrift, You’re not only saving
taxpayers' dollars, you are helping protect your property, the environment and possibly the life of someone who is actually
in need of assistance.”
The Coast Guard urges the public to do the following three things:
Help us help you find your kayak. Mark It! Take responsibility for your paddle craft by labeling with an 'If
Found' sticker. This label allows responders to confirm if someone is actually in trouble and collect information
to help search efforts.
Take responsibility for recovering your paddle craft. Unmanned and adrift kayaks, canoes, dinghies and
rowboats often cause hazards to navigation in the waterway and increase the level of risk and fatigue on
response crews tasked to find the owners associated with the unmanned paddle craft.
Do your part to prevent false alarms. First responders deployed in search of unmanned paddle craft divert
resources away from actual lives in distress. For more information on paddle craft labeling, contact your local
Coast Guard Auxiliary and visit iffoundsticker@d13cgaux.net to get free “If Found” stickers to help label your
paddle craft. REF: LTJG Sean Mazer, Executive Officer, USCG Station Seattle, WA

PADDLE CRAFT REFLECTOR KITS
United States Coast Guard Definition: 33 CFR 173 2018
“Paddle craft means a vessel powered only by its occupants, using a single or double bladed paddle as a lever
without the aid of a fulcrum provided by oarlocks, crutches, or similar arrangements”.
PADDLE CRAFT REFLECTOR KITS
1. The Auxiliary National Supply Center (ANSC) currently has about 16,000 Paddle Craft
Reflector Kits in stock. Developed by the Coast Guard Auxiliary under a grant from the Sport Fish
Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, administered by the Coast Guard, these kits help make
paddlers more visible to boaters. These kits are available from ANSC as stock line item #3004-
B. Due to the limited supply, there is a limit of 50 kits per order.
2. As the recreational boating season gets into full swing across the country, now is the ideal time
to distribute these kits as part of Auxiliary engagement with paddlers at public education events,
vessel safety checks, and program visits. Each kit consists of a sheet of shiny, reflective plastic
film containing four reflectors, one for each paddle tip. Paddlers can peel the reflectors from the
sheets and apply them to the tip of each paddle. On the water, these reflectors catch the sun, and
reflect it with a glint to make the paddle craft more visible to other paddlers and boaters. Each kit
includes a safety checklist that can be marked with the paddle craft owner's name and phone
number, and then applied to the paddle craft. The kit also contains much more useful safety
information for paddlers.
3. Auxiliary flotillas that engage with paddle craft communities are strongly encouraged to place
their orders now and distribute these valuable reflector kits soon in order to promote and achieve
improved paddle craft safety.

Cellphones Are Helping the USCG Locate Distressed Mariners
By USCG Petty Officer 2nd Class Nicole J. Groll May 6, 2020
Left: File photo (U.S.
Coast Guard photo
courtesy of Station New
London)
Right: A photo of what
pops up on your cell
phone to share your
location with the
Coast Guard when in
distress. (U.S. Coast
Guard photo by Nicole
J. Groll)
First Coast Guard District command center crews, from Maine to Northern New Jersey, have a new tool to help
distressed mariners come home to their families after being out to sea.
The i911 program allows for watchstanders to use a mariner’s cellphone number to assist in finding their
location for Coast Guard rescue crews to locate them faster. Once the number is entered, the mariner receives a
text message authorizing them to share their location with the U.S. Coast Guard. Once shared, the internal cell
phone’s GPS, which uses satellites to pinpoint the mariner’s location, is displayed on a screen for watchstanders
to aid in the search for them. This software is already available to first responder agencies across the country. It
was developed by Callyo Inc. and is a free service for all first responders, including the Coast Guard.
“What’s cool about my job is that I get to learn about new technology, and how we can apply it to help the
Coast Guard,” said Lt. Anne Newton, Coast Guard Research and Development Center. “The second I saw
Callyo’s presentation, I knew this would help command centers tremendously.” Newton worked in a several
command centers before her time at the R&D Center and understands the struggle command center crews face
when trying to find someone they know is counting on the Coast Guard to bring them home.
Depending on the cell phone service, i911 can determine locations of distressed mariners from up to 15-20
nautical miles offshore. During the pilot period, more than 38,000 search and rescue cases across the contiguous
United States were analyzed, and it was found that 89 percent of all SAR cases took place within 20 nautical
miles off shore. Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound, located in New Haven, Connecticut, was the first to test
the system. It was a success and subsequently all five First Coast Guard District Sector command centers
became part of the pilot program.

It’s not a perfect system though, there are some challenges.
The biggest challenge watchstanders at Sector Long Island Sound found was teaching distressed mariners how
to turn on their location services. The i911 system will not work without it. “It’s really cool technology and
already helped us on numerous occasions with search and rescue,” said Joshua Olsen, a command duty
withstander for Sector Long Island Sound. “Sometimes, we just need to talk people through how to share their
location.”
During the pilot period, the i911 system assisted in bringing several mariners home including three people on an
inflatable raft. They were blown out to sea and couldn’t paddle to shore due to high winds and strong sea
currents. Armed with only their cell phones, i911 pinpointed their location about 6 miles offshore and rescue
crews were able to rescue and bring them home safety.
Left: Verbiage of the
text message the
i911 system sends
for mariners to
follow to share their
location with the
Coast Guard via the
Watch-stander. (U.S.
Coast Guard photo
by Nicole J. Groll)
Chief Petty Officer Andrew Case, a command duty officer at Sector Southeastern New England, located in
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, really liked having this tool to use for search and rescue. “It’s like Rescue 21 for
the phone,” said Case. “It greatly decreases the time we spend looking for someone and gets the rescue crews
out faster.” Case also said that doesn’t mean mariners should not have a VHF radio on board. The most reliable
and traditional means of communication for mariners to use when in distress is VHF channel 16.
This is just one of many cases where people were brought home safe during the pilot program in the Northeast.
This program will hopefully be a game changer in the 2020 recreational boating season. The pilot program,
which ran from May – November 2019, is now authorized for Coast Guard command centers across the entire
service and U.S. as of March 20, 2020.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS PHOTOGRAPHY AUGMENTATION June 16, 2021
Photographer: D11N Photos by Roger Bazeley AUXPA1
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area Command hosted a change-of-command ceremony
Wednesday June 16 at Coast Guard Base Alameda.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz presided over the ceremony, where Rear Adm. Peter W.
Gautier relieved Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan as the acting Pacific Area commander.
Since 2020, Gautier served as the deputy commander for Coast Guard Pacific Area. Gautier was previously the
commander for Coast Guard District Eleven from June 2018 to July 2020 where he oversaw Coast Guard
operations from the California-Oregon border to Peru including Arizona, Utah, and Nevada.
Fagan was nominated by President Joe Biden April 19 to serve as the Coast Guard’s vice commandant. If
confirmed, Fagan would become the first woman in the Coast Guard to be promoted to the rank of Admiral.
Fagan led the 13,000 men and women of Coast Guard Pacific Area through the COVID-19 Pandemic and
implemented policies to protect the health of the workforce ensured the Coast Guard met its maritime safety and
security missions. Under Fagan’s command, Coast Guard Pacific Area interdicted and detained more than
1,400 illegal narco-terrorists, removing more than 802,000 pounds of cocaine and 103,000 pounds of marijuana
from the maritime approaches of Central and North America. Additionally, she deployed the Coast Guard
Cutter Polar Star and Healy, the nation’s only ice-breakers, to assert U.S. sovereignty and execute national
scientific research in Antarctica and the Arctic.
Fagan supported national security objectives in the Indo Pacific by providing three national security cutter
deployments to the region. These deployments, within the Navy’s 7th Fleet area of operations, supported U.S.
national objectives to promote global maritime governance and strengthen international partnerships.
Pacific Area Command is the Coast Guard’s regional command element and force provider for maritime safety,
security and stewardship throughout the Pacific. The command’s area of responsibility encompasses six
continents, 71 countries and more than 74 million square miles of ocean.
The change-of-command ceremony is a historic military tradition. The event, which has remained unchanged
for centuries, includes a reading of the command orders in the presence of all unit crew members to ensure
continuity of command.
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- 1. Color Guard, 2. USCG Commandant Schultz reading orders to VADM Fagan 3. Speech
Photos: Roger Bazeley AUXPA1

Photos by Roger Bazeley AUXPA1
U. S. Coast Guard Sector San Francisco on June 21 U.S. Coast Guard Cutter PIKE Change of
Command transfer from Lieutenant Alexander LaBelle to Lieutenant Junior Grade John Loewenstein.
SAN FRANCISCO – USCGC PIKE Change of Command Ceremony June 21, Photos by Roger Bazeley PA1

USCGC PIKE COC, USCG Auxiliary D11N Culinary Assistants, and Crew portrait photos by Roger Bazeley

SAN FRANCISCO — Coast Guard Sector San Francisco personnel hosted a change-of-
command ceremony Thursday June 24th
on Yerba Buena Island.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Brian K. Penoyer, the Eleventh Coast Guard District commander,
presided over the ceremony, where Capt. Taylor Q. Lam replaced Capt. Marie B. Byrd as the
Sector San Francisco commander and Captain of the Port of San Francisco.
Lam recently completed an assignment as a national security fellow at the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In this senior
service school program, he researched how the U.S. marine transportation system's resiliency
could be improved given challenges associated with the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Byrd, who has served as the Sector San Francisco commander since 2019, retired after 26 years
of service in the Coast Guard.
Under Byrd’s command, Sector San Francisco members responded to 2,936 search and rescue
cases, saving or assisting 2,860 lives, prosecuted 2,240 law enforcement boarding’s,
responded to 529 pollution incidents and completed 352 marine casualty investigations.
The Sector San Francisco commander's responsibilities include captain of the port, federal on-
scene coordinator, officer-in-charge of marine inspections, federal maritime security
coordinator and search-and-rescue mission coordinator.
The area of responsibility spans from the California-Oregon border to the San Luis Obispo
County line, as well as much of Nevada, Utah, parts of Wyoming and includes more than 2,500
miles of shoreline within the San Francisco Bay and its tributaries.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Coast Guard Rear Adm. Brian K. Penoyer, the Eleventh Coast Guard District commander
and retiring Sector San Francisco Commander, Captain Marie Byrd. Photos by Roger Bazeley PA1

SAN FRANCISCO – Captain Marie Byrd’s two sons and spouse being recognized by Coast Guard Rear Adm.
Brian K. Penoyer for their sacrifice and support of Captain Byrd’s 26 years of U.S. Coast Guard service.

June 30, 2021 PACAREA Change-of-Command Ceremony
Coast Guard Base Alameda, California, 94501
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area Command hosted a change-of-
command ceremony Wednesday June 30, 2021 at Coast Guard Base Alameda.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz presided over the ceremony, where Vice Adm.
Michael F. McAllister relieved Rear Adm. Peter W. Gautier as the Pacific Area commander.
Gautier has served as the acting Pacific Area commander since June 16 when he assumed
command from Admiral Linda Fagan. Gautier will resume his role as deputy Pacific Area
commander.
Since 2018, McAllister served as the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support at U.S. Coast
Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he led a 17,000-person organization that
delivers the systems and people that enable the U.S. Coast Guard to efficiently and effectively
perform its operational missions.
Pacific Area Command is the Coast Guard’s regional command element and force provider for
maritime safety, security and stewardship throughout the Pacific. The command’s area of
responsibility encompasses six continents, 71 countries and more than 74 million square miles
of ocean.
The change of command ceremony is a historic military tradition. The event, which has
remained unchanged for centuries, includes a reading of the command orders in the presence of
all unit crew members to ensure continuity of command. U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl L. Schultz presided over the ceremony, where Vice Adm. Michael F.
McAllister relieved Rear Adm. Peter W. Gautier as the Pacific Area commander. SF Japanese Consulate
General was present with other invited local dignitaries. Photos: Roger Bazeley AUXPA1

USCGC MUNRO 755 was Commissioned April 1, 2017 at Seattle, Washington,
Homeported at USCG Base Alameda, CA
Seattle as the selected 2017 site of the commissioning of the newest Legend Class High Security Cutter
MUNRO 755 was also the home of Douglas Munro who had been a resident of Cle Elum, a small town in
Washington State. The first USCGC Munro was commissioned on September 27, 1971, at Avondale Shipyard
in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the tenth of twelve 378-foot (115 m) cutters; she was the first to be named
after a Coast Guard hero. The previously commissioned “Hamilton Class” 378-footers had been named for
former secretaries of the Treasury, a tradition that began in 1830 when a cutter was named for Alexander
Hamilton
USCGC MUNRO SHIELD and Vessel Trials Photo, Courtesy USCG and Ingalls Archives
The USCGC Munro is named to honor Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro, the Coast Guard’s sole
recipient of the Medal of Honor. He was mortally wounded on Sept. 27, 1942, while evacuating a detachment of
Marines on Guadalcanal during the battle with Japanese forces holding the Pacific Island. Douglas Albert
Munro was born in Vancouver, Canada, of American parents, on 11 October 1919, but spent his entire life
previous to his enlistment in South Cle Elum, Washington. He attended the Central Washington College of
Education for a year and left to enlist in the United States Coast Guard in 1939. He had an outstanding record as
an enlisted man and was promoted rapidly through the various ratings to a signalman, first class. (USCG
Official Achieves Douglas Munro Bio-History.

Douglass Munro USCG: Medal of Honor, Official Photo, and Climbing Mast Photo, USCG
USCGC Munro 755 Seattle, Wash. commissioning was attended by dignitaries, USCG members and public,
NLUS supporters, as well as the USCG Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft, USCG VADM Fred Midgette,
Commander Pacific Area and Defense Force West, Captain Thomas King, Commanding Officer USCGC
Munro, and Ms. Julie Sheehan, ship sponsor. Ceremonial honors were presented by the USCG Ceremonial
Honor Guard, and the National Anthem performed by the U.S. Navy Northwest Band.
Navy League of the United States Co-Adoption Ceremony of the USCGC MUNRO (WMSL 755)
- June 21, 2017 Enhancing Community Involvement and Support
Lake Merritt Council and Alameda Council, Navy League of the United States and the USCG District
Command sponsored the Co-Adoption Ceremony of the USCGC MUNRO (WMSL 755) on 21 June 2017 on
board USCGC MUNRO at Coast Guard Island, Alameda; CA
USCGC MUNRO Crew in formation on Aft Flight Deck and Honored NLUS Council Guests – Lake
Merritt and Alameda Councils being presented with certificates of ships adoption by the two councils of
Navy League of the United States - Photos: Roger Bazeley

The new U.S.C.G.C. MUNRO under the command of Captain King is a vital multi-mission asset in insuring our
national security and interests in maritime safety for maintaing safe and secure ports, coasts, and drug
interdiction along with other diverse search and rescue operations with it’s new generation of dedicated officers
and crew members like Ensign Vincent Lee, Asst. Navigation Officer.
USCGC MUNRO aft boat launch area UCGC MUNRO Ward Room
Ship’s Communications Area Ship’s Food Galley – Meal Preparation by Chef
The U.S. Coast Guard Team supports the success of key missions and goals for insuring maritime safety,
recreational boating outreach, maritime safety of port faculities inspections, vessel examinations, as well as
response to environmental shipping pollution/spills through rapid incident response by parterning with the U.S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary. The new National Security Cutter MUNRO and the five others that are operational
have proven the investment value in expanding the capability, crew safety/comfort, and reliability of the Coast
Guard’s fleet.

Ensign Lee at Underway Fueling Station, Ensign VanDillen at Exterior Bridge Controls Photos: Roger
Bazeley USCGAUX
Bridge Controls and Navigation Bow - 57mmRapid Fire Gun Photos: Roger
Bazeley USCGAUX
Coast Guard’s greatest asset is the dedication of our 50,000 active serving USCG people who
are apart of Team Coast Guard, from enlisted crew members like Ensign Vincent Lee to our
active reservisists, civilian employees, and the additional invaluable force multiplier of 28,000
volunteers of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxilary. Team Coast Guard men and women work
together to support maritime safety, recreational boating outreach, and maintaining port
security, as well as insuring environmental quality through prevention, education and rapid
incident response. The Auxilary plays a vital role as a force multiplier in many of these key
missions and events.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS PHOTOGRAPHY AUGMENTATION November 15, 2021
November 15, 2021 PACAREA USCGC MUNRO 755
Coast Guard Base Alameda, California, 94501
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area Command hosted a MUNRO crew
and family day cruise of the San Francisco Bay November 15, 2021 departing at 0900 HRS and
return at 1720 HRS. Photography by Roger Bazeley AUXPA1 – for USCGC MUNRO

USCGC MUNRO Photos by AUXPA1 Roger Bazeley

Photos by Roger Bazeley

Cyber Security
How safe are you?
By
Dawn
Muller
While we have all been hunkering down for COVID, we’ve also been busy working away on our
computers. At the same time, cyber criminals have been working double time obtaining people’s personal
information to sell on the dark web. At my last FBI cyber briefing, we were given a laundry list of methods
used by hackers to steal peoples’ identities. One of these hacking methods is incredibly easy and can occur
without your knowledge: Phishing.
With Phishing, hackers pretend to be someone or some-thing they are not in order to gain your confidence
into revealing information. These cover stories look official and are very clever. Example: an individual
orders an item online and gets an email update from the company giving feedback on deliveries. The
hackers send an email that looks like it comes from your shipping company. They indicate that they are
ready to ship your package and convince you to provide personal information before it can be delivered.
Often, they will have you enter your address to validate the shipping location, or your credit card number to
pay a shipping overage or your birthday/SSN to ensure it is your account. They have even perfected their
technique, so their logo looks like the ‘real deal’ and no one is the wiser that they are not from that agency
or company. These people are smart, they are sneaky, and they know how to disappear without a trace.
Once they have certain personal information, they can open accounts in your name and/or use your identity
for illicit purposes.
Some ways to keep yourself from becoming a victim:
• NEVER reveal your Social Security Number online, EVER. Even the IRS and SSN offices will not
contact you online and ask for this type of personal information. They typically contact you by USPS and
have you initiate contact with them.
• Before opening, clicking links, or downloading files from suspicious emails, check the source. If you get
an email that looks like it is from a legitimate source, examine it closely. Roll the curser over the logo to
see if it is from that company. Instead of revealing personal information, go directly to the web-site to log
in or call the company directly to deter-mine if the email is legitimate. DO NOT click on the link in the
email. Instead, enter the company’s URL into the address bar.
• Use antivirus software to detect malware or viruses that can capture information from your computer.
• Use different passwords, especially for your financial institutions.
What to do if you have been compromised.
If you find that you may have erroneously given information to a bad actor, take steps immediately to limit
your vulnerability. Contact the company that was used in the phishing scheme and change your password to
that site. Call your Credit Card Company and financial institutions and place an alert on your accounts. You
may also want to reach out to the three credit agencies to place a fraud alert or freeze on your account so no
one can open accounts in your name. If you find evidence that your identity has been stolen, you may need
to call the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to file a report. In some cases, you may also need to contact
your local Sheriff’s department.
Be careful out there and keep your personal information safe!

Today's "Christmas Tree Ship"
Chicago's boating community reenactment of the oldendays of the Rouse Simmons landing in
Chicago is nowportrayed by the US Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw. The trees are off-loaded
from the Mackinaw by localyouth volunteers, including Sea Cadets, Venture Crews, Sea
Scouts and Young Marines and loaded onto trucks for distribution to more than a thousand
deserving families throughout Chicago by Ada S. McKinley Community Services. The gift of
Christmastrees to deserving families is made possible by the generous financial support of our
sponsors, donors and contributors.
CHICAGO Channel 7 News (WLS) – In 2020 More than 1,200 Christmas trees were unloaded on a Saturday
morning at Navy Pier as part of the Coast Guard's annual tradition. While the spirit of giving lives on, the
special mission didn't go without some changes because of the pandemic. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter,
Mackinaw, docked at Chicago's Navy Pier filled with the precious cargo. "We are glad to do this; we are
happy to help," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrew Prioleau. Each one headed down the Christmas tree
ship's chute and out to a Chicago family need. Private donations pay for all the trees.
"We just have a little system here. They throw it down, and we pick them up and take them to the truck,"
Prioleau said. The tradition has lasted more than two decades, but the pandemic forced plans to change. The
usual crowds were not at the dock to pick up the trees, but, instead, the crew themselves stacked and packed
each one for delivery. "We are coming out here ourselves, unloading the vessel and packaging it into the
trucks," Prioleau said. This year, more than a half dozen community groups will be delivering the trees to
Chicago-area families. One of the groups is the Englewood pastors.
"Because of COVID we weren't sure if they were going to do it this year, so we assured them that if the trees
are available, we will be coming from the Navy Pier to Englewood to deliver those trees and help people with
a little Christmas joy," said Pastor St. John Chisum. The holiday spirit can be even more important this year
as Chicago sits in the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and people are left struggling financially and
emotionally. "You would be surprised how just a tree can make a difference in somebody's life," said Pastor
Willard Peyton.
As for the Coast Guard, they said they are just happy to help. "Give back to those that deserve it, "said Coast
Guard Cmdr. Randy Preston. After the trees are taken off those trucks, they will be given to families in need in
a socially distanced delivery

Photos: USCG Public Affairs USCGC Mackinaw

A ship carrying thousands of Christmas trees sank in Lake Michigan
107 years ago ‘Chicago’s Christmas Tree Ship’
The ship's captain earned the title "Captain Santa" after years of delivering
Christmas trees to Chicago.
It's been 107 years since the Rouse Simmons sank in Lake Michigan on a journey from
the Upper Peninsula to Chicago. The schooner was carrying thousands of Christmas
trees, and it has now become known as the 'Christmas tree ship.' The ship's captain,
Herman Schuenemann, also gained the title Captain Santa after years of delivering
Christmas trees to Chicago residents.
What caused the Rouse Simmons to sink all those years ago, though, is still a bit of a
mystery. The ship left a dock in Thompson, Michigan on Nov. 22, 1912. Eyewitnesses
said the ship looking like "a floating forest," according to the National Archives, carrying
3,000 to 5,000 Christmas trees.
The next day, a lifesaving station noted a ship indicating it was in distress, but a crew that
went onto the waters to assist the ship was unable to locate it amidst poor lighting, heavy
snow and mist. Over the next few days, the families of the crew realized the fate of the
ship must have been grim. For weeks and months, the remains of Christmas trees
washed up on the Wisconsin shorelines, the National Archives stated.
The National Archives reported that a number of factors could have led to the ship's
demise: the poor physical condition of the ship battered by a November storm, ice on the
ship and the heavy load of thousands of Christmas trees. The Rouse Simmons was
located in October 1971 by a Wisconsin scuba diver.

The sinking of the Christmas Tree Ship marked the beginning of the end for schooners
carrying trees across Lake Michigan. Before this, Schuenemann would dock the boat in
Chicago, hang lights on the mast, and sell trees and homemade wreaths from the ship.
However, by 1920 that tradition had ended.

Sausalito, CA -- Auxiliarists Peter Shamray and Pete Grosvenor perform and vessel inspection on a 38.5 foot Juneau
Sailing Vessel berthed at the Sausalito Marina; look skyward to exam the masthead running lights visible operating
condition. This is one of many items in the vessel examination procedure to be examined for passing the annual Vessel
Exam and being awarded a new Decal upon passing the annual exam. Photographer: Roger Bazeley PA1 D11N

Mr. Thompson Holds His Flotilla Spellbound with Account
of Coast Guard Service During WWII.
Mr. Robert Thompson,who turned 98 years old the weekend after our Zoom meeting,
regaled members and three guests of his duty as a Coast Guardsman during World War II.
By Tanya Morris, FSO-FC and E.W. Morris 054-24-09, Morehead, N.C.
1. Thompson Enlisted 2. Sea Cloud conversion for USCG Costal Weather Patrol 1942 3. Thompson Dress Blues
After the business on the agenda was completed at our Flotillameeting on February 17, members of Flotilla
24-09 Morehead City, North Carolina, and three guests and prospective members were held spellbound by
Mr. Robert Thompson, a Flotilla member since 2000, who turned 98 years old the weekend after our Zoom
meeting. He told us of his duty as a Coast Guardsman during World War II.
After volunteering in Baltimore, Mr. Thompson traveled to Manhattan Beach in New York for Boot Camp. He
considered Boot Camp nice, and he and his cohorts all got along with the other recruits, White and Black. In
boot camp, he was amused by those recruits who responded affirmatively to the Chief’s question of “who can
drive?” Wewerethen being put to work with wheelbarrows.
Mr. Thompson was transferred to Boston with other Black “Coasties.” After serving on onshore patrol
guarding bridges in and around Boston, Robert was assigned to the USCGC Sea Cloud, a re-purposed, luxurious
private yacht assigned to the U.S. Navy, but crewed by the U.S. Coast Guard to patrol a 100 square mile area from
Boston to Maine, generating weather reports for the First Naval District. When it was chartered to the United
States Armed Forces, between 1942 and 1944, for one dollar by Mr. andMrs. Davies, the Sea Cloud was sent to
Curtis Bay to be refitted as a weather observation station vessel, where all masts except for the mainmast were
removed. Sea Cloud was armed with two – 50 caliber machine guns, eight – 0- millimeter guns, four – K-guns
and one Mark X hedgehog mortar. The ship was painted battleship gray, commissioned as a USCG Cutter on
April 4, 1942, and assigned to the eastern sea frontier with a permanent homeport in Boston.
Under the command of Lt. Carlton Skinner, it was the first racially, integrated warship in the United States
since the Civil War. Until his unit came aboard, the crew had been all White. Mr. Thompson recalled feeling
welcomed and encountering no problems with fellow crewmen. This racial integration was before President
Truman's Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, which abolished segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Racial Integration--When Lt. Carlton Skinner took command of Sea Cloud after serving as Executive Officer,
Black seamen were only allowed to serve as ship stewards. “After witnessing a Black man save thecrew of
Northland, yet still be denied promotion because of his race, Skinner proposed an experiment. Skinner submitted
his plan to the Secretary of the Navy and was allowed to sail his firstweather patrol with a fully integrated crew.
Within a few months,fifty Black sailors, including two officers, were stationed aboard Sea Cloud. Skinner
requested that the experiment not be publicized and the ship not be treated differently from other ships in the
task force. Skinner showed that his integrated crew couldwork just as efficiently as a segregated crew, if not
more so, when his crew passed two fleet inspections with no deficiencies. Under Skinner’s command when the
ship was integrated, American painter Jacob Lawrence served on the Sea Cloud. He was able to paint and
sketch while in the Coast Guard, most notably his War Series.” [Wikipedia] Mr. Thompson has a lithograph of
the Sea Cloud under sail painted by Jacob Lawrence, with whom he served.
Mr. Thompson on the bridge The Sea Cloud converted for WW2 Costal Patrol and Radio monitor
Service Aboard USCGC Sea Cloud -- Mr. Thompson told of being assigned to Sea Cloud before being sent
to New London, Connecticut, and then to Key West, Florida, for sonar training, then returning to Sea Cloud.
Although the Coast Guard was segregated, he was in charge of six White seamen on the trip to Florida. They
took a train to Miami before boarding a bus to Key West. They went to a YMCA, at a stopover, and he wasn’t
issued towels with which to shower and was told to go to the Black section of town. When the six white
seamen refused to shower unless he was also allowed, the manager relented. When the Cocoanut Grove
nightclub caught fire on November 28, 1942, killing 492, Mr. Thompson and other Coast Guardsmen, along
with Army soldiers and Navy sailors, were pressed into service to clear out the bodies of those who burned in
the conflagration - an experience with which he is still haunted
Mr. Thompson’s recollections of life aboard the Sea Cloud included:
Being a crew member on the first large boat on which he sailed. -- Seeing the sailors “Holy Stoning” on their hands and
knees using bricks, sand and water to clean the wooden decks. -- Being stuck in a hurricane for four days around
Christmas-- Being hit by a rogue wave in the North Atlantic that broke through steel doors.
Before being mustered out, Mr. Thompson was assigned to a destroyer escorting convoys to Russia. After leaving the
Coast Guard, Robert joined the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. He also and sang second tenor parts with a
Gospel group named the “Southernaires.”
Sea Cloud Sea Cloud is described now as the world’s oldest ocean-going passenger ship. It is a 316 foot-long, 4-masted
bark, launched in 1931 as Hussar IV and powered by diesel-electric engines with a top speed of 14 knots. When Sea
Cloud was christened, it was the largest privately-owned sailing ship in the world. It was owned by Marjorie
Merriweather Post and her husband, E.F. Hutton, actress Barbara Hutton’s uncle. After the couple divorced in 1935,
Mrs. Post assumed sole custody of the ship she had helped design after completing a marine engineering course and
having full-sized mock-ups of the ship’s interior constructed in a New York warehouse.

Sea Cloud --Sailing Cruise Ship
Sea Cloud is a sailing cruise ship of the Sea Cloud Cruises line; as of 2020, it is the world's
oldest oceangoing passenger ship. Launched as a private yacht in 1931, it served as a weather
ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World War II, when it
became the U.S. military's first racially integrated warship since the American Civil War. A
windjammer writes history. The SEA CLOUD's life story is more thrilling than some novels.
She was built in 1931 in Kiel at the request of a Wall Street broker. It was his wife, Marjorie
Merriweather Post, who shaped the SEA CLOUD's character. After the ship's sale in 1955,
there were several dark chapters in the history of the once glamorous private yacht - until she
was bought in 1978 by a group of Hamburg …

FLEET WEEK 2021
Roger Bazeley AUXPA1
Taking place over three consecutive days in the skies above the City’s waterfront, this event attracts over a
million people from around the Bay. Featuring the United States Navy Blue Angels, the Air Force’s F-22
Raptor, the Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 and, from France, the Breitling Jet Team. Throughout Fleet Week,
thousands of visitors climb aboard the USS Rushmore Richard LPH-4 Carrier, destroyers and frigates, USCG
cutters and cruisers docked at the Embarcadero to get a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of the sailors serving
in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and Austrailan Navy.
USN Blue Angles – F18 Hornets Flyby Photo: Roger Bazeley
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels flew again as in past years in the 2021 San Francisco Fleet Week celebration of
military power which featured 2 days of airshows, which included: a United Airlines Boeing 777 airliner flying
manuvers, U.S. Coast Guard rescue demonstrations, Navy ship tours, live music; starting with the Saturday
parade of ships underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. The main Blue Angles air shows were on Saturday and
Sunday

FLEET WEEK 2021
Left: USCGC George Cobb and Right: Blue Angles flyby USCGC George Cobb - Photos: Roger Bazeley
Left: USCGC MUNRO, Alameda – Right: USCG Unit representing District D11N on Columbus Day
Left: USCGC COBB CREW: Castaneda BMC (deck), Center: Patrizio BMC (bridge), Right: Johnson BM3, Macias BM2, Eaves
BM2,Castaneda BM1, Burman BMC (Grouped around Ship’s Store Table) Photos: Roger Bazeley

San Francisco Fleet Week 2021
Blue Angles flying past East Tower Bay Bridge and Coit Tower – Photos Roger Bazeley
Blue Angles fly near Golden Gate Bridge – Photos: Roger Bazeley
Left: USCG Cutters 89’ Pike and USCGC George Cobb – Right: USCGC TERN

San Francisco Fleet Week 2021
Photo: Roger Bazeley
U.S. Navy Blue Angels, F-18 Hornets
Left: USN Blue Angels over Alcatraz - Right: USS ZUMWALT newest US Navy Guided Missile Destroyer passes
stern of Liberty ship US Jeramiah

PARADE of Ships Fleet Week Collage

USCG Assists “Operation Christmas Drop”
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam
(AFNS) --“Santa 31 is headed your way!!”
Live low-cost, low-altitude humanitarian-aid bundles are
airdropped from a U.S. Air Force C-130-J Super
Hercules out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, during
Operation Christmas Drop, Woleai, Federated States of
Micronesia, Photo taken Dec. 10, 2019. Every
December, C-130 crews from the U.S. Air Force team
up with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, Royal
Australian Air Force, and Royal New Zealand Air Force
for “Operation Christmas Drop,” a humanitarian aid and
disaster relief training exercise designed to airdrop
critical supplies to remote islands like Woleai
throughout the FSM and the Republic of Palau. (U.S.
Air Force photo by Senior Airman Matthew Gilmore)
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AFNS) --“Santa 31 is headed your way!!”
For those on the island of Woleai, and other islands throughout the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic
of Palau, its radio calls like that from the North Pole that makes Christmas come a little early every year thanks to
Santa’s C-130 Super Hercules from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, participating in Operation Christmas Drop.
“When we get that call saying it's our drop-day and word gets out, the island has a different feel to it,” said Allentino
Riugiufmal, Northern Islands Central High School vice principal on Woleai. “The island has this pure feeling of
excitement that is shared across the community, like a child just waiting to see what’s under the tree “After the news
is radioed in, it's just a matter of time before the only C-130 we see all year long (graces) our skies, delivering the
bundles we’ve come to rely on throughout the years. When the day finally does come, and that plane is in the sky,
it’s just like Christmas has come early.”
Now in its 68th year, Operation Christmas Drop has not only served as the world’s longest-running airdrop training
mission, providing critical supplies to fifty-five Micronesian islands like Woleia, but has also served as a coming
together for elders and their communities on their respective islands across approximately 1.8 million square nautical
miles throughout the Pacific.

The gathered elders determine who gets what goods. This distribution has created so many memories for all
who have shared in the Operation Christmas Drop magic, memories that have lasted almost as long as the event
itself. “Every Christmas drop is special for the island,” said Santos Bugoman, an 18-year resident of Woleai.
“We all have our own memories of (Operation Christmas Drop’s) past. I got my first pair of shoes in one of my
first Christmas drops and it’s something I will always remember and cherish. I wore them until I had completely
outgrown them and blisters were forming because they were too small. Maybe I was being just a little bit
sentimental, but they were so special to me I didn’t want to let go of them.” While memories of toys and shoes
are what the children cherish, for the elders, it is the food, medicine and other supplies that have meant the most
over the years.
“We all have childhood (memories) of seeing the planes fly overhead,” Riugiufmal said. “As we each grew
older, we truly understood how important (Operation Christmas Drop) is for the islands. These bundles have
toys, yes, but they, more importantly, carry bags of rice to help feed the 500 villagers we have here. The
parachutes and their rigging is used to make sails for our boats and the wire for our spear guns. Some of our
bundles were sent solely for our school and contained the students’ education supplies they needed to thrive.
“Those items are what matter to us and what we appreciate most. Those items, and (Operation Christmas Drop)
in general, is what brings us together as a community. I saw some school children saying “Thank you Christmas
drop” for the camera. That does not do it justice. On behalf of everyone on this island, our Chiefs, our elders
(and) our school children, thank you (Operation Christmas Drop), thank you for all that you have shared with us
over the years.”
Left: A U.S. Air Force C-130-J Super Hercules out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, delivers five low-cost, low-altitude
humanitarian aid bundles filled with critical supplies as part of Operation Christmas Drop to the island of Woleai,
Federated States of Micronesia, Dec. 10, 2019. In its 68th year, Operation Christmas Drop is the world’s longest-running
airdrop training mission, It provides critical supplies to 55 remote Micronesian islands like Woleai and impacts
approximately 20,000 people across 1.8 million square nautical miles of operating area. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior
Airman Matthew Gilmore)
Right: A pair of village elders on the island of Woleai in the Federated States of Micronesia, sort through one of five
low-cost, low-altitude bundles airdropped as part of Operation Christmas Drop, Dec. 10, 2019. Operation Christmas Drop
serves as a training platform for the U.S. Air Force and its partners to better train for humanitarian assistance and disaster
relief through the use of airdrops on un-surveyed drop zones throughout the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior
Airman Matthew Gilmore)

In Remembrance of Willian Burns

Bugler’s Call to Remembrance, The Presidio
The Bugler stands straight as a sentinel, a lone figure silhouetted by the golden glow of the late afternoon’s setting sun, in
solitary reflection, while snapping to attention, slowly and deliberately raising the horn to his lips while inhaling a deep
breath of the surrounding air.
Surrounded by tall shade trees, flags waving in the coastal winds flowing through the Golden Gate, and groves of
eucalyptus and cypress of the Presidio, surrounded by thousands of stone markers and headstones of our nation’s fallen
heroes, the lone bugler’s first notes sorrowfully float on the afternoon’s breeze this Memorial Day.
The Bugler plays with respect, musical notes that honor those individuals who served, whether Spring, Summer, Autumn
or Winter at the Presidio, marking points of historic sacrifice. Each note of twenty-eight is played in sequence to
remember our fallen who sacrificed through dedication, belief and duty with honor – our fathers, mothers, sisters,
brothers, neighbors, and Gold Star families. The Bugler’s notes of taps progress and rise to the heavens.
The lone Bugler plays the last of the twenty-eight notes of Taps sustaining the last note with an emotional, quivering
finality, until it drifts off, tapering into silence. All is still but the snap of waving flags and rustling of leaves from the
wind sweeping through the Presidio’s giant, majestic eucalyptus and cypress trees. The notes of Taps still linger in
memory as we remember the fallen, but not forgotten.
At the Presidio Memorial, as night comes, the Bugler, as a lone sentinel and keeper of played notes, penetrating the souls
and hearts of all who listen and remember, respectfully lowers the trumpet and salutes the fallen, all present and, the
American Flag at half-mast.
People gathering at the Presidio disperse and wander about the trees and monuments of the Presidio, some quietly
weeping and others were gathering and walking in groups or couples. Some families sit on blankets between the
headstones of loved service members, and with children taking family “selfies,” relax within the Presidio’s place of
comfort and remembrance.
Those who have experienced San Francisco’s Presidio shall never forget the family gatherings, walks, camping, biking,
running and moments of reflection and remembrance in this space, a space to fully experience all that is life.
By Roger Bazeley, USCG Auxiliary Public Affairs, Bugler 6/3/2021

AUXILIARY PROGRAMS
The USCG Auxiliary has a wide variety of
programs in which members may participate and
make a real difference by serving, supporting,
and augmenting the USCG and Auxiliary; as
part of America’s “TEAM COAST GUARD”.
Below are some of our special programs:
 MARINE SAFETY (MS) and
ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Qualified Auxiliarists and their facilities
assist with USCG marine safety and
environmental protection.
 PUBLIC AFFAIRS SUPPORT (PA)
Auxiliarists are authorized upon
qualifying as a Public Affairs Specialist to
support both Coast Guard and Auxiliary
Public Affairs including publications.
.
 PUBLIC EDUCATION (PE)
The Education Department’s mission is
twofold: to provide exceptional boating
safety education to American boaters with
the aim of reducing loss of life, personal
injury and property damage to recreational
boaters; and to deliver the highest possible
quality training, resources and
publications for our Public Education and
instructors.
 RBS PROGRAM VISITATION (PV)
The RBS Program Visitation’s intent is to
save lives and property by providing
marine related businesses with the most
current boating safety information for
boaters. Marine businesses customers will
be able to obtain the most up-to-date
boating safety literature and information
on Auxiliary Vessel Safety Exams and
Public Education boating courses.
 FOOD SERVICE SPECIALIST
(FS) Auxiliarists’ augment and
support active duty food service in
galleys, aboard cutters and during
special events.
 AUX Air Aviation Program –
(SAR) Search and Rescue Patrol
Missions as a USCG Auxiliary
qualified Pilot, Co-Pilot or Air
Observer in AUX Facility.
 RECRUITING PROGRAM
Auxiliarists may qualify and be
assigned to duty as military
recruiters to support the USCG’s
recruiting program. This assignment
includes qualification as a military
recruiter, proctoring recruiting
examinations, and administrative
assistance to recruiting offices and
for screening applicants for the
USCG Academy.
 AUGMENTING USCG
There are many diverse areas
available in augmenting the USCG
from Marine Safety and the AUXFS
program to Public Affairs.
Augmenting assignments are
coordinated by your Auxiliary
Sector Coordinator (ASC) or
Auxiliary Unit Coordinator (AUC)
to determine relevant qualifications.

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