United States Coast Guard Auxiliary 7th District Breeze Volume LVIII Number 1 Spring 2012 http://www.cgaux7.org/ Is the offi cial publica on of the UNITED STATES COAST GUARD United States Coast Guard Auxiliary 7th District District Commander h p://www.cgaux7.org/ RADM William D. Baumgartner, USCG Volume LVIII Issue 1 Spring 2012 Director of Auxiliary District 7 CDR Jose’ Quinones District Staff Offi cers Opera ons Training Offi cer Auxiliary Sector Coordinators CWO2 Ursula Walther Preven on Department ASC Sector Charleston Lyle E Le eer …….................................DSO-MS U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY Reginald B. Hollar Frank R. Lann ….………...................…..…DSO-MT Ronald D. Foreman……………..............….DSO-PV District Commodore David M. Wall....……..……...............……..DSO-PE ASC Sector St. Petersburg COMO Walter Jaskiewicz William S. Griswold……..…..............…..…DSO-SL Donald C. Hoge Chuck Kelemen ……....................…………DSO-VE District Chief of Staff John Tyson ASC Sector Jacksonville Response Department David C. Cawton David Cawton …………………....................DSO-NS Immediate Past District Commodore Cecil Christopher..…………..….................DSO-AV COMO Donald L. Frasch ASC Sector Key West Harry S. Reynolds…..…...…...............…..DSO-CM R. Dewey Jackson Dudley Davis .......……………...............…...DSO-OP District Captain North Jerry Henderson.……............…..QE Coordinator Robert Weskerna ASC Sector San Juan Logis cs Department District Captain West Osvaldo M. Ca nchi David Has ngs....…...……...............……...DSO-CS Melvin Manning Susan Z. Has ngs……...……...…................DSO-IS ASC Sector Miami Constance O. Irvin...…………...............….DSO-PA District Captain East William V. Tejeiro Dorothy J. Riley…. ……………................…DSO-PB Judith Hudson Angela Pomaro .…..…...….............….…..DSO-HR Terry Barth ……………...…...............……..DSO-MA Richard J. Leys………...............…………....DSO-DV Division Commanders 2012 Other Division 1……...........…………………Angel Benero Lillian G. GaNun …….……………................DSO-SR Division 2….….......…..……....... Loren R. Emery II James Roche .......…...….…..……..................DSSO Richard Petrucci...………................……..….DFSO BREEZE is the offi cial and educa onal Division 3….….........….……….. Samuel E. Duda Division 4………..........William J. Sorren no, Sr. Andrew Anderson………….............….…….DSO-LP tool of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary 7th Division 5……….…............…….... Gary P. Barth Phillip Poole ...........………….............….……....D-LL District and is intended as a publica on Division 6……...........……….……. Thomas R. Walker James Mayer.......…………................…..…DSO-FN to keep the membership apprised of the Division 7…..............…..…...….. J. Michael Shea Richard Leys………..….………....................PPDCPA ac vi es of the Auxiliary. All ar cles and Division 8……........................... 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Volume LVIII Issue 1 Spring 2012 1 The offi cial publication of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary 7th District In this issue... 2 From the Bridge: Commodore Walter Jaskiewicz 18 Coast Guard Cu er Eagle’s 75th Anniversary Cruise 3 From the Bridge: John Tyson, DCOS Jerry Janaro 4 From the Bridge: COMO Donald Frasch, IPDCO 22 Patrol Puzzlements Barbara Burchfi eld 5 Around District 7 24 Air Sta on Miami Makes History 6 District Captain North Diane Riggan Robert Weskerna, DCAPT-North 26 Guardians for the Angels 8 District Captain West Kevin Koehl Melvin Manning, DCAPT-West 27 Tiger-6: Auxiliary Air Coastal Patrol Assists 10 District Captain-East Downed Aircra in the Bahamas Judith Hudson, DCAPT-East Lourdes R. Oliveras 11 U.S. Navy to St. Croix Auxiliary 28 Remembering Pearl Harbor Doug Armstrong Dorothy Riley Photos by Brian Lichtenstein 12 District Directorate Chief-Logis cs 30 Keeping a Secret James Dennen, DDC-L Constance O. Irvin R.I.P.: Is this the fate of Auxiliary Newsle ers? Dorothy Riley 31 Man Overboard! Photos by Brian Lichtenstein 14 District Directorate Chief-Response Donald A. Zinner, DDC-R 32 Auxiliary Assists in Annual “Paddle Florida” Event District 7 Opera ons: Auxiliary Assists in 2012 Patricia Gross Interna onal Associa on for Disabled Sailing World Championship 34 USCG Sta on Sand Key – Keys of Success Program Frank Wondolkowski and Larry Keller Karen L. Miller 15 District 7 Opera ons: Teamwork 35 Riding Along with a Breeze Brian Lichtenstein Judith Hudson 16 District Directorate Chief-Preven on 36 Blackthorn Remembrance Ceremony David M. Fuller, DDC-P Dorothy Riley Think Green: Coast Guard’s 2011 Innova on Expo 17 Flo lla 14-5 Proves that Eff ec ve Innova ons Can be Simple! Helen Russe e 2 U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary District 7 Breeze From the Bridge Commodore Walter Jaskiewicz District Commodore D7 Uncommon Strength Unwavering Service members U.S. Coast Guard Reserve) that is nine pages Although it is only a few long. We have indeed come a long way as we are now weeks into the new year, a separate entity and our current Auxiliary Manual is it has been busy for all of 700 pages long! us. N-Train in Saint Louis (Jan. 22-29, 2012) once again One thing that has not changed through all of these provided great training in years is the dedication and the spirit of our members many offi ce positions. who continue to meet and accept the many changes and day-to-day challenges. Our Coast Guard missions On the subject of training, I recently returned from St. off er increasing support opportunities such as the Thomas, U.S Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico where outstanding Auxiliary Chef Program, the Interpreter John Tyson, District Chief of Staff , and Dan Stewart Corps, and Incident Command System Qualifi ed McIntyre, Assistant District Staff Offi cer-Member Responders to name just a few. District 7 is a leader Training instructed a full day of Leadership Training in thinking “out of the box” to conceive new support to the recently elected leaders of Divisions One and missions. The numerous talents and skills of our Sixteen. Att endees included staff offi cers as well members are our greatest resource. Those talents and as other members who volunteered. Bringing this skills are now being entered into a database using our training directly to each of our divisions has proved new Skill Set Software. This database will allow online to be extremely benefi cial and has improved district access to information about member’s skills, trade, support to our members, which in turn increases our location, and availability in a timed response situation. credibility in executing our Coast Guard missions. As I enter my second year at the bridge, every day I’m Last year I had the honor of att ending two seventy- amazed at the spirit of service our volunteers provide. year fl otilla anniversaries. Two more are scheduled No words can describe my appreciation for all that you this year. The history of these fl otillas is something of do.Ω which we should all be extremely proud. I have a copy of the fi rst Auxiliary manual that is titled, “Information Semper Paratus, and Advice for Coast Guard Auxiliarymen” (now COMO Walter R. Jaskiewicz, DCO 7 PUERTO RICO—The District 7 Flo lla Leadership Road Show was off ered in Puerto Rico Jan. 22, 2012. From le : Commodore Walter R. Jaskiewicz, District 7 Commodore; Angel M. Benero, Division 1 Commander; Gregorio Maysonet, Staff Offi cer-Naviga on Systems, Division 1; Luis Irizarry, Staff Offi cer-Opera ons, Division 1; Jose Rivera, Staff Offi cer-Communica ons Division 1; John D. Tyson – District 7 Chief of Staff ; and Lourdes R. Oliveras, Assistant District Staff Offi cer-Public Aff airs- South D7, also from Puerto Rico. U.S.C.G. Auxiliary photograph Volume LVIII Issue 1 Spring 2012 3 From the Bridge John Tyson District Chief of Staff