Page 1 of 2 Admiral Karl Schultz Commandant of the Coast Guard U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Karl L. Schultz assumed the duties as the 26th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard on June 1, 2018. As Commandant, he oversees all global Coast Guard operations and 41,000 active-duty, 6,200 reserve, and 8,500 civilian personnel, as well as the support of 25,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers. He previously served from August 2016 to May 2018 as Commander, Atlantic Area where he was the operational commander for all Coast Guard missions spanning five Coast Guard Districts and 40 states. He concurrently served as Director, DHS Joint Task Force-East, responsible for achieving the objectives of the DHS Southern Border and Approaches Campaign Plan throughout the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Region, including Central America. Prior flag assignments include Director of Operations (J3), U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Florida; Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District in Alameda, California; and Director of Governmental and Public Affairs at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Previous operational assignments include Sector Commander in Miami, Florida, as well as command tours aboard Cutters VENTUROUS, ACACIA, and FARALLON. His senior staff assignments include Chief of the Office of Congressional and Governmental Affairs; Congressional Liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives; Liaison Officer to https://www.uscg.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=0&ModuleId=198... 12/15/2020 Page 2 of 2 the U.S. Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Assignment Officer at the Coast Guard Personnel Command; and Command Duty Officer in the Seventh Coast Guard District Operations Center in Miami. A native of Connecticut, Admiral Schultz graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1983, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. In 1992, he was awarded a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Connecticut, and in 2006, completed a one year National Security Fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He and his wife, Dawn, have five children - Kelsey, Lindsey, Annaliese, Eric, and Zachary. His personal awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, four Legions of Merit, four Meritorious Service Medals, three Coast Guard Commendation medals, two Coast Guard Achievement Medals and various other personal and unit awards. https://www.uscg.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=0&ModuleId=198... 12/15/2020 Curriculum Vitae Colonel Jarst de Jong, born in 1965, started his military career in 1985 as a marine midshipman at the Royal Netherlands Naval Institute in Den Helder. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1988 followed by several commands as platoon commander. Colonel Jarst de Jong In 1992 he is send to the UK where he successfully completes the Mountain leader course. Upon return he then starts as the assistant Operations officer of a Marine ba"alion before becoming company commander. As a major he also commanded a Marine Special Naval A!aché Forces Company. In 2003 he worked as the deputy Operations officer at the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Headquarters. He was then promoted to LTCOL as the future planning officer at the Netherlands Maritime Force Headquarters. Between 2007 and 2009 he held a position in the Ministry of Defence as senior staff officer in the resources and plans department. Colonel de Jong commanded the 1st Marine ba"alion between august 2009 and august 2011 before he was then promoted to colonel. He then commanded the Dutch Police Training Mission in Kunduz, Afghanistan. This interagency, interdepartmental, joint taskgroup was responsible for police training and rule of law in one of the most complex and difficult areas of operations in the North of Afghanistan. Colonel de Jong held position as the head of the Special Operations Branch at the MoD in The Hague. In that capacity he had a leading role at the MoD in an International, interdepartmental, interagency taskforce which was responsible for the planning, response and handling of the MH-17 crisis that occurred a$er the shot down of the Air Malaysian aircra$ killing 298 people. In 2015 Colonel de Jong was seconded to the department of Justice where he acted as head of the Counter Terrorist department within the organisation of the National coordinator terrorism and security. Ministry In july 2017 Colonel de Jong took command of the Marine Training Command. In this capacity he also acted as the Deputy commander of of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. Currently Colonel de Jong is the Naval a"aché and assistant defence a"aché for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Defence Washington DC. Colonel de Jong studied at the University of Tilburg and the Free University of Amsterdam. His military educational career consists of the Amphibious Warfare School at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, US, the Maritime Strategy Course at the UK Defence Academy and the Junior and Senior Staff College at the Netherlands Defence academy. Colonel de Jong is also specialised as a Mountain Leader. Colonel de Jong completed operational tours to Haiti (1995/1996) as a staff officer at the UN HQ, to Ethiopia (2000/2001) as a company commander and to Afghanistan (2006/2007) as the chief J5 Plans Regional Command South. In his second tour to Afghanistan (2012/2013) he commanded the Netherlands Police Training Group rotation three. Colonel de Jong is married to Irma and has three children (Sion, Bri", Benthe). In his pastime he likes to read and run. He is also an enthusiastic sailor. Cédric Chetaille is a French naval officer of 48 years old, promoted Captain on October 1, 2012. His previous assignment was the Directorate of Military Intelligence, as deputy CJ2 at the Joint Staff (CPCO – Paris). As a nuclear submariner, he had the command of an attack nuclear submarine, SSN S-605 "Améthyste" (Blue), in 2008-11 and of a strategic submarine, SSBN S-619 "Le Terrible" (Red), in 2014-16. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1994, after a 5-years education program, including a world-tour on board the helicopter-carrier "Jeanne d'Arc". He received in 1994 his diploma as generalist engineer from the Naval Academy. He then started his career onboard a patrol ship, P684 "La Fougueuse", operating throughout the West Indies and the French Guiana theater. He joined in 1996 the Submarines Service, where he started to serve onboard a 800-tons diesel attack submarine SSK "Psyché", before participating in 1997 in the first operational deployment of a newly commissioned SSBN, S-616 "Le Triomphant". After the command of the training ship "Jaguar" in 1998-1999, he graduated from the Academy of Combat Systems and Naval Weapons in 2000, specialized in Undersea Warfare. Until 2005, he alternated assignments as Head of Weapons Department or Warfare Officer of SSN S-605 "Perle", SSN S-604 "Emeraude" and SSBN S-616 "Le Triomphant". In 2005, he was posted as Executive- Officer of SSN S-605 "Perle". He took part during these assignments in all the major standing or specific operations carried out by the French Navy in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Indian Ocean, as well as in NATO operations (Enduring Freedom). He served in 2008 as head of the undersea warfare department at the Naval Training Center of Saint-Mandrier, France. In 2008-2011, as Commanding Officer of SSN S-605 "Améthyste", he carried out three operational deployments, amongst them was a participation in Unified Protector, a NATO operation, and in Harmattan, a major national operation (war against the Gaddafi regime's forces in Libya). From 2011 to 2013, Captain Cédric Chetaille experienced the management of human resources, as Head of the Human Resources Department of the Submarines Service general Staff. In November 2013, he was posted to the Naval Headquarters in Paris, as part of the "Transformation Marine Horizon 2025" project team and took part in the reflections made necessary by the 2014-2018 Defense Review. From August 2014 to August 2016, as Commanding Officer of the SSBN S-619 "Le Terrible", he carried out two operational sea tours. As for his academic background, he also graduated in 2004 from the Academy for the military applications of atomic energy, and, in 2007-2008, he was a student of the Advanced Command and Staff Course, at Shrivenham, United Kingdom. In 2008, he graduated with a Master of Arts in Defense Policies from King's College, London. Recently, he graduated on June 13th, 2019, from the National War College, Washington, DC, with a Master of Science (National Security Strategy – concentration in WMD). Captain Cédric Chetaille is an Officer in the French National Order of the Legion of Honor, Knight of Maritime Merit, and was awarded three Mentions in Dispatch. He is also Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. He is married with Isabelle, who works as a History teacher, and they have five children. CDRE P D NASH RN Philip Nash joined the Royal Navy in 1994 as a Fleet Air Arm Observer. On completion of flying training he joined 815 Naval Air Squadron as a front-line Lynx Observer in 1997. His early career as a Lynx Flight Observer and Flight Commander was dominated by operational deployments at sea with NATO, coalition and UN forces in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, in the Arabian Gulf, the Indian Ocean and in the Far East, including as part of the UN force deployed to East Timor in 1999. After subsequently qualifying as a Principle Warfare Officer in 2003 he saw further deployed service, predominantly in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf regions, as a Type 23 Frigate operations officer supporting coalition operations in and around the Iraqi oil terminals in the aftermath of the 2003 war.