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Coast Guard Award

Auxiliary Commandant's Letter of Commendation

Congratulations to recipient:

Christopher D. Ware, Flotilla 8, Division 8

Presented by:

CWO Douglas Leavell,
Spring Conference 2008

 

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Date presented:

March 15, 2008

    For performance of duty from January 2005 through December 1, 2007 while serving as the Flotilla Staff Officer Public Affairs for Flotilla 8-8.      
         

Citation (in part)

         
 

"You took the faltering Public Affairs Program within the flotilla and gave it new life. You worked tirelessly with crime prevention groups in McLean and DeWitt Counties to secure funding support for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Coast Guard’s America’s Waterway Watch Program.  You worked with Coast Guard Headquarters staff and with signage manufacturers to prepare the first in the nation America’s Waterway street signs.  These signs have been placed in the areas such as critical dams and infrastructures at Bloomington Lake, McLean County Lake, and Clinton Lake/Clinton Nuclear Power Station, Illinois."

 
      Commendation received with ribbon pendant.    

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