Curt Fleck, Coast Guard Sustained Auxiliary Award
Ed Duffy, 20-4, Coast Guard Sustained Auxiliary Service Award
Fred Ehren, 20-3, Sustained Auxiliary Award.
Frederic Duchesne, 20-4, achieved AX2 status.
David Levi, 20-2, Membership Service Award.
Paul Dorn, 20-3, Service Award.
Flotilla 20-3, Flotilla of the Year, 2010
Larry Bruck, 20-4, Member Training Award.
Sonya VanValkenburg, 20-2, Division 20 New Auxiliarist of the Year Award.
George Wirthmann, 20-4, Meritorious Team Commendation.
John DeFrancesco, 20-4, Five Year Service Award.
Kenneth Smith, 20-4, Sustained Service Award.
Larry Bruck, 20-4, Division 20 Auxiliarist of the Year Award.
Larry Bruck, 20-4, Certificate of Appreciation from American Soldiers Station in war zone areas.
Manfred Germann, 20-2, Sustained Auxiliary Service Award.
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COMDTNOTE 1000
SUBJ: COMMANDANTS INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE- STANDING THE WATCH
1. SHIPMATES, ON THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU WHO STAND OR HAVE STOOD THE WATCH. SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS OF OUR REPUBLIC, COAST GUARDSMEN HAVE BRAVELY ASSUMED THIS OBLIGATION OF DUTY. IT IS BY STANDING THE WATCH THAT YOU GIVE OUR NATION – WE THE PEOPLE – THE MOST SPECIAL GIFT OF ALL: FREEDOM.
2. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. IT IS EARNED BY SACRIFICE. ONCE EARNED, IT IS ONLY PRESERVED THROUGH CONSTANT VIGILANCE – THE VIGILANCE THAT YOU PROVIDE EVERY DAY IN OUR PORTS, UPON OUR WATERWAYS AND OVER OUR OCEANS.
3. YOU ARE SOARING OVER THE CARIBBEAN AND EASTERN PACIFIC OCEANS ON THE HUNT FOR ILLICIT TRAFFICKERS AS YOU HONOR YOUR 100 YEAR PROFESSION OF NAVAL AVIATION. YOU ARE PATROLLING THE HIGH LATITUDES, ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A CHANGING CLIMATE ON AN INCREASINGLY ICE DIMINISHED ARCTIC. YOU CONTINUE TO SERVE IN THE ARABIAN GULF PROTECTING INFRASTRUCTURE VITAL TO A FLEDGLING IRAQI NATION. YOU ARE INSPECTING FOREIGN PORTS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF CARGO AND SHIPS BOUND FOR OUR SHORES. YOU ARE STRENGTHENING OUR PARTNERSHIPS BY CONDUCTING MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY EXCHANGES WITH WEST AFRICAN NATIONS, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY COMBATING PIRACY ALONG AFRICAN EAST COAST. YOU ARE ASSISTING OUR CITIZENS AND THEIR PROPERTY THROUGHOUT THE FLOOD-RAVAGED MIDWEST. YOU ARE CONDUCTING VESSEL SAFETY CHECKS AND RECREATIONAL BOATER EDUCATION, AND YOU ARE CONTINUING TO PERFORM OUR MANY OTHER PERSISTENT AND CHALLENGING MARITIME MISSIONS.
4. YOUR SERVICE, INCLUDING OUR RESERVE, CIVILIAN, AUXILIARY AND RETIREE MEMBERS, IS PRESERVING THE GUARANTEE THAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PASSED DOWN TO US 235 YEARS AGO TODAY – OUR UNALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THIS IS OUR WAY. THIS IS WHAT WE DO. WE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE U.S. COAST GUARD.
5. STAND A TAUT WATCH. SEMPER PARATUS.
6. ADMIRAL BOB PAPP, COMMANDANT, SENDS.
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TO: ALAUXDIST1SR
FM: DIRAUX
Subj: 72nd ANNIVERSARY OF OUR COAST GUARD AUXILIARY -025/11
1. FYI:
To the outstanding men and women of D1SR Coast Guard Auxiliary, I echo the comments of our Commandant, Admiral Papp, and thank you all for your outstanding and selfless service. Keep up the great work, stay safe & enjoy the Summer!
Semper Paratus & Bravo Zulu
Commander C.H. Zorman, Diraux-D1SR
2. Further:
R 221632Z JUN 11
FM COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC//CCG//
TO ALCOAST
BT
UNCLAS //N16790//
ALCOAST 302/11
COMDTNOTE 16790
SUBJ: SEVENTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD AUXILIARY
1. JUNE 23 MARKS THE SEVENTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF OUR COAST GUARD AUXILIARY. FOLLOWING THEIR FORMATION IN 1939, AMERICA SOON ENTERED WWII. DURING THE WAR, SOME 50,000 VOLUNTEER AUXILIARISTS STOOD WATCH OVER OUR SHORES, PORTS AND WATERWAYS.
2. TODAY IS NO DIFFERENT. THIS YEAR OUR 31,000 COAST GUARD AUXILIARISTS DELIVERED OVER 3.2 MILLION HOURS OF OPERATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. AT SEA, IN THE AIR, AND EVEN IN THE INCIDENT COMMAND CENTER, THEY FORTIFIED OUR RESPONSE TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON SPILL, ASSISTED WITH MIDWEST FLOOD OPERATIONS, AND PROVIDED COMPASSIONATE ASSISTANCE TO WEST COAST COMMUNITIES THREATENED BY A TSUNAMI.
3. EVERY DAY THE COAST GUARD AUXILIARY WORKS TO MAKE OUR WATERS SAFER FOR RECREATIONAL BOATERS THROUGH EDUCATION, SAFETY INSPECTIONS AND STRONG PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE UNITED STATES POWER SQUADRONS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOATING SAFETY COALITION.
4. I CONSIDER THEIR WORK A SPLENDID PATRIOTIC SERVICE, AND I ENCOURAGE ALL UNITS TO HOIST THE AUXILIARY COLORS ON JUNE 23 TO HONOR THEIR PROUD TRADITION AND WORTHY MISSION. SEMPER PARATUS.
5. ADMIRAL BOB PAPP, COMMANDANT, SENDS.
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TO: ALAUXDIST1SR
FM: DCO 1SR
SUBJ: SEVENTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD -026/11
Subj: SEVENTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD
Greetings CGD ONE Commodores and Chiefs of Staff on this fine Coast Guard Day – and Happy Anniversary!
I want to take this opportunity to thank all four of you for your selfless and patriotic service to our Coast Guard, the First District, our communities, and the boating public. Your leadership of this outstanding volunteer force is inspiring, and I am immensely proud to speak of Auxiliary accomplishments to our Coast Guard, DHS, DoD, and other government partners and civilian agencies – who are invariably jealous that we enjoy such a huge professional force multiplier in the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
The pride and professionalism that is exhibited by your more than 5,700 dedicated Auxiliarists throughout CGD ONE is matched only by their many accomplishments. When asked to launch a massive Private Aid to Navigation (PATON) verification effort last year, your teams responded by verifying more than 90 percent of all PATON in the entire district – an unprecedented feat. Collectively, you completed more than 16,000 recreational vessel safety checks and taught more than 7,500 hours of Public Education this year. Coast Guard-wide, the Auxiliary team provided more than three million hours of operational and administrative support to the Service – an awesome accomplishment! It seems no job is too large to ask of an Auxiliarist in the First District or throughout Team Coast Guard. On the water, in the air, in the classrooms, and at the docks, your work is more important now than ever.
I wholeheartedly join Admiral Papp in congratulating you and the entire CGD ONE Auxiliary force on this day, the seventy-second anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. From not so humble beginnings in 1939 to the incorporation of so much vital Auxiliary work in so many modern Coast Guard missions, we are indebted to you and simply would not be able to complete our missions without your steady participation. This summer, I continue to rely on the Auxiliary to deliver your message of Recreational Boating Safety, to stand the watch, and to provide the resources that allow the First Coast Guard District to be Semper Paratus.
Bravo Zulu for a job amazingly well done, and best regards on your 72nd anniversary!
V/r, RADM Dan Neptun
First Coast Guard District Commander
