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Smith was the first African American graduate of the Coast Guard Academy while Steverson was the second African-American graduate of the Academy. [2] 2000 - Jacqueline P. James was the first black female engineering graduate from the United States Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. [5] 2001 - Ensign Andrea ...
Bobby Charles Wilks (May 12, 1931 – July 13, 2009), [1] [2] was an American Coast Guard aviator. He was the first African American Coast Guard aviator and the first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain. [3]
One of Merchant's role models and mentors was Dr Olivia Hooker, who was the first African American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard.Dr. Hooker joined the Coast Guard during World War II and the galley on the Coast Guard's Staten Island, New York base is named after her.
Four women who say they were subjected to sexual assault and harassment at the US Coast Guard Academy testified to Congress on Tuesday about how they were silenced, retaliated against and left ...
The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, has been revamped this year in light of a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the ...
FILE - The new hats and shoulder bars for the graduates sit on a table before the start of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 141st Commencement Exercises Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in New London, Conn.
[1] [2] In 1999 McShan was the first African-American to be appointed an instructor at the Chief Petty Officers' Academy. [3] In 2000 McShan was the Coast Guard's first African-American woman to be promoted to Master Chief Petty Officer. [4] McShan enlisted in the Coast Guard in July 1979. [5] For her first fourteen years in the Coast Guard she ...
The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), located in New London, Connecticut, is the U.S. service academy specifically for the United States Coast Guard. Founded in 1876, the academy provides education to future Coast Guard officers in one of nine major fields of study. Students are officers-in-training, and are referred to as cadets.