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Coast Guard Pacific Chief Zukunft Nominated To Be Next Commandant

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

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Coast Guard Pacific Chief Zukunft Nominated To Be Next Commandant

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft. Photo: Coast Guard.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last Friday said that Vice Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard’s Pacific area commander, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be the service’s next commandant following the retirement of current commandant Adm. Bob Papp on May 30. Zukunft, a 37-year veteran of the Coast Guard, has served in various capacities including coordinating the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. That effort included the direction…

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