Hurricane Sandy: Response and Recovery in New York and New Jersey
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2013-05-22
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Sturgis, Linda
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Commander Linda Sturgis is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
She began military service in the U.S. Army in 1988 and graduated
Old Dominion University in 1992. Shortly after college graduation,
she changed military services and attended Coast Guard Officer Candidate
training in 1993. She was stationed on USCGC MELLON
where she conducted fisheries enforcement, undocumented migrant
and drug interdiction operations in the Bearing Sea, the Caribbean,
and South Pacific Ocean. She has been assigned to the Coast
Guard Headquarters budget formulation office and Marine Safety Offices across the
country including Seattle, Miami, Cleveland as Commanding Officer and is currently
assigned to Coast Guard Sector New York on Staten Island, New York.
Her current position as Prevention Department Head at Coast Guard Sector New
York includes overseeing domestic ice breaking, aids to navigation, waterways management,
commercial vessel inspections, waterfront facility inspections, law enforcement
boardings on deep draft commercial vessels prior to entering port, and marine
casualty investigations. She holds a Masters Degree in Marine Affairs and business
certificate in Global Trade and Transportation from the University of Washington.
Commander Sturgis will be rotating from Sector New York during the summer of
2013 and will be assigned as a senior military fellow at the Center for a New American
Security in Washington DC.
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Greenville, NC: East Carolina University