Category: District 11sr
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Auxiliarists Celebrate USCGC Narwal Change-of-Command in Newport Beach
Change of command ceremonies are a time to look forward and back, and a celebration of teamwork across all of the U.S. Coast Guard’s members, both military and civilian. On July 17, 2025, Coast Guard Auxiliarists Edward Little, Daniel Shane and Oscar Gallo of Flotilla 12 in Long Beach joined the crew of the Newport Read more
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Pat Swope Celebrates 45 Years of Plaudits From Her Shipmates
Acting District 11 DIRAUX CWO3 Jared Esselman and longtime Auxiliarist Pat Swope. On the July day in 1980 when Patricia Swope, now of Flotilla 6-2 in Huntington Harbour, joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Jimmy Carter was president and the Coast Guard was still struggling with the gargantuan Mariel Boatlift from Cuba. Nearly 45 years later, Read more
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Division 6 Supports 63rd L.A. Harbor Boat Parade
Members of Orange County-based Flotillas 6-1 and 6-3 sailed up the coast to support the 63rd annual L.A. Harbor Boat Parade in the Port of Los Angeles on December 7, 2024. Coxswain Dale Zimmermann from Division 6 Flotilla 6-1 led crew members Steve Baine, of Flotilla 6-1; Connie Trejo, Flotilla 6-3; and Joe Benton, Flotilla Read more
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Div. 6 Auxiliarists Train with Jayhawk Crew From New Ventura Air Station
Photos by Joe Benton / U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary A helicopter crew based at the Coast Guard’s newest air station, at Point Mugu in southern Ventura County, wasted no time in establishing a working relationship with Auxiliarists from flotillas in Orange County as they rendezvoused off Los Angeles Harbor on November 21. The joint training Read more
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VCDR Steve Sherman, Auxiliary’s Resident Polymath, Dies at 77
Steve Sherman, a Flotilla 66 member whose encyclopedic knowledge of arcane Auxiliary matters was built on a foundation of nearly 20,000 volunteer hours in many different Coast Guard fields, died in Orange County on Sept. 24 after a brief battle with pneumonia. He was 77 years old and served 16½ years in the Coast Guard Read more