Vol. 55, Issue 3-2008 - U.S. Coast Guard

Air Force photo by Airman Jonathan Lovelady, 375th Air Wing Public Affairs
Photo courtesy PAC Renee Gordon, Coast Guard Recruiting Command USCG
Recruiters of Year
Coast Guard Recruiters of the Year were honored at a
ceremony Dec. 4, 2007 in Tampa, Fla. Navy League
National Director Skip Witunski, right, presents MKCS
Steven Sisk of Recruiting Office Tacoma, Wash. with a
plaque for being named Coast Guard Reserve Office of the
Year. Also recognized were, left to right, AMT1 Robert
TRANSCOM Change of Command
Incoming U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)
Coast Guard Element commanding officer CAPT Jeffery G.
Anderson, left, salutes outgoing commanding officer CAPT
Deborah A. Dombeck, right, while Air Force Reserve Maj.
Gen. Harold L. Mitchell, center, commander of
USTRANSCOM’S Joint Transportation Reserve Unit,
looks on. The change of command ceremony for
USTRANSCOM’s Coast Guard Reserve Element was held
Dec. 1, 2007 at Scott Air Force base, Ill. The Coast Guard
Reserve Element has 18 Coast Guard Reservists.
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Holden, Active Duty Recruiter of the Year (RO Tampa);
YNCS Tom Illich, Reserve Recruiter of the Year (RO
Mobile); IT1 Michael Locke, Officer Recruiter of the Year
(RO Denver); and MKCS David Maletzke, Active Duty
Office of the Year (RO Portland, Maine).
Congratulations … and Welcome Back!
CAPT Kim Pickens, USCGR, right, displays the 2007
Joel Magnussen Innovation Award presented by CAPT
Andrea Contratto, left, while visiting the Office of
Reserve Affairs at Headquarters April 3. The team
award was for her work as Deputy chair of the Atlantic
Area Shore-based Boat Working Group, which
analyzed the multi-mission workload at all 170
LANTAREA small boat stations in 2006. Pickens is no
stranger to this magazine — she served as editor of The
Reservist from 1979-82 while an ensign/lieutenant
junior grade in the USCGR.
Photo by CWO3 E.J. Kruska, USCGR