1. I note with pride and am pleased to commend you for your performance of duty while assigned to Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon from December 2014 to June 2018. Through relentless pursuit of excellence, dedication, and outstanding responsibility, you quickly certified as a 47’ MLB Coxswain, Boarding Officer, and OOD. During your tenure, you accumulated over 760 underway hours during more than 450 missions, and prosecuted over 75 search and rescue cases. Your underway Operational Risk Management and professional ability was evident in August of 2016 when your skills were called to action during a 12 hour search for a missing kayaker off Waldport, OR in 6-8 foot seas and 200 yards of visibility while exhausting your search
