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Daniel R. May
Director of Reserve and Training |
Rear Admiral May was assigned as Director of
Reserve and Training in January 2008. He
serves as the Director of the Coast Guard Reserve, serves as a member of the
Reserve Forces Policy Board and is charged with developing policies to
recruit, train, allocate and support over 10, 000 Coast Guard Reservists.
He is also responsible for the planning and technical control of the
Coast Guard Training Centers, serves as a member of the Board of Trustees
for the
Coast
Guard
Academy
and serves as the Chairman of the Commandant’s Leadership Advisory
Council. Rear Admiral May has
served in a wide variety of operational, engineering and staff positions
including Assistant Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy from June of
2006 to January of 2008 where he was selected for flag rank.
Rear Admiral May is a 1979 graduate of the United
States Coast Guard Academy majoring in Ocean Engineering. Following his
initial tour aboard CGC INGHAM, he
served as the Ocean Engineer for the Fifth District Civil Engineering Office
before reporting to graduate school at the
University
of
Rhode Island
in 1982. Upon earning a
Master’s Degree in Ocean Engineering, Rear Admiral May reported to the
National Data Buoy Center at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi
overseeing the design of deep sea meteorological buoys and mooring systems.
During his four year tour, he was responsible for the expansion of
the ocean and coastal weather data collection network from just over 35
sites to nearly 80 locations including coastal lighthouse sites, several
Hawaiian
Island
buoys moored in over 18,000 ft. of water, and the first mooring of a
year-round weather buoy in the Great Lakes.
In 1988 Rear Admiral May was assigned as the Commanding Officer of
the Station and Base in St. Louis, Missouri providing the only dedicated SAR
resource for the St. Louis River community and supply and logistics support
for the entire 18 state region of the former Second Coast Guard District.
Rear Admiral May returned to the engineering field in 1991 as a
plankowner at the newly formed Civil Engineering Unit Providence in
Warwick
,
Rhode Island
. During his tour he served as the project engineer for the design and
construction of a 5000-ton revetment to protect Montauk Lighthouse and the
relocation of Block Island Southeast Light, the first move of a major
lighthouse structure within the
United States
. Later, he completed the
planning and design for the relocation of the Cape Cod Lighthouse, some 450
feet back from the eroding bluff of
Cape Cod
. In 1995 Rear Admiral May was
assigned as the Deputy Commander, Coast Guard Group Boston followed by a
tour as the Industrial Manager for the Integrated Support Command (ISC)
Boston from 1998 to 2001, providing a wide range of engineering and
logistics support to all Coast Guard units located in the Northeast Region
of the United States. Rear
Admiral May also served as the Chief of the Operations Division for the
multi-agency search and recovery effort during the crash of JFK Jr’s plane
in July of 1999. Rear
Admiral May served as the Commander, Coast Guard Group
Boston
from June of 2001 to June of 2004 overseeing all Coast Guard operations from
Plymouth Bay
,
Massachusetts
north to the border of
Massachusetts
and
New Hampshire
. From 2004 to 2006, Rear
Admiral May served as the Executive Assistant for the Assistant Commandant
for Human Resources at Coast Guard Headquarters coordinating the efforts of
the Directorate in all programmatic, policy and directed actions.
Rear Admiral May is the recipient of numerous personal and unit
awards including the Legion of Merit, Two Meritorious Service Medals with
Operational Distinguishing Device, four Coast Guard Commendation Medals,
three Achievement Medals, three Special Operations awards, two Unit
Commendation Awards and three Meritorious Unit Commendations.
He is the 1992 RADM John B. Oren award recipient for the most
significant contributions to the Coast Guard civil engineering program.
CAPT Daniel McClellan
Deputy Director
(202) 475-5422
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Ms. Brenda Felder
Administrative Assistant
(202) 475-5420
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