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2008 Photos
Most Photo Albums are now in [Flickr]
Morrsion Award 2008
Photos can be found [here]
May 2008 Luncheon
Lieutenant Rae graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1988, enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1990 and was assigned to the Intracoastal Waterway near Charleston, SC. Qualifying as a small boat coxswain, he quickly advanced to Boatswain Second Class in Baltimore in charge of a 10 person duty section conducting search and rescue, law enforcement and environmental protection on the Upper Chesapeake Bay.
In 1995 he was transferred to the Coast Guard Cutter POINT HIGHLAND homeported in Chincoteague, VA. Qualifying as an underway OD, he advanced to Boatswain First Class, became Executive Petty Officer and in 1997 was named the Enlisted Person of the Year for Coast Guard District Five.
Accepted to Officer Candidate School, he graduated in 2000 and was transferred to Coast Guard Cutter BRITOL BAY in Detroit, MI, then to Coast Guard Cutter ADAK as the Executive Officer in Sandy Hook, NJ. Four months after reporting aboard, ADAK deployed to the Middle East, where they patrolled the Persian Gulf throughout 2003.
After his overseas tour, he became Deputy Group Commander of Coast Guard Group Eastern Shore, Chincoteague, VA and then Command Duty Officer of Coast Headquarters Command Center in Washington DC. Since July 2007 LT Rae has commanded Coast Guard Cutter STURGEON BAY in New York.
Lieutenant Rae’s awards include the Permanent Cutterman and Coxswain Insignia, CG Commendation Medal, Navy/Marine Corp Commendation Medal, CG Achievement Medal, CG Commandants Letter of Commendation, Combat Action Ribbon, Iraq Campaign Medal and several Unit and Team Awards.
Annual Congress 2006
Annual Congress in San Diego The New York Commandery was represented by four companions at the Naval Order's Annual Congress, held in San Diego, California, from 14 - 16 October 2004. Here are some pictures from that weekend.
Pensacola NAS 2006
Naval Aviation Museum and Blue Angels Airshow Pensacola Naval Air Station
On Thursday, 10 November 2005, several members of the Ne w York Commandery were invited to a tour of the Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, and treated to VIP seating for the Blue Angels Airshow. Travel for the one day excursion was provided by North American Airline.
Morrison Award 2005
Samuel Eliot Morison Award Dinner Monday, 7 November 2005 Racquet & Tennis Club, New York City
Michael G. Walling Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941 - 1944
Mike Walling served in the U.S. Coast Guard for six years as a commissioned officer and a senior petty officer. His assignments included buoy tending, search and rescue missions, drug law enforcement, and oceanographic operations to the Arctic .
As part of the Boarding Party and Prize Crew teams on two cutters, he participated in the seizures of a Panamanian drug-runner and a Cuban fishing boat. Walling has also just published, in conjunction with Flat Hammock Press, a new edition of “Sinbad of the Coast Guard,” the adventurous, true story of the USCGC Campbell ’s mascot whose exploits during World War II became legend.
Walling appeared on the History Channel’s series “Man, Moment, Machine” episode about Andrew Higgins, the designer and builder of the vital landing craft used in World War II. Walling has spent more than 40 years collecting stories from hundreds of World War II veterans.
At present he is an associate editor for an educational material development company. Walling and his wife live in Hudson , Massachusetts , where he spends his spare time working on his next book about amphibious operations during World War II.
Morrison Award 2004
Samuel Eliot Morison Award Dinner Monday, 8 November 2004 Racquet & Tennis Club, New York City James D. Hornfischer The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
