Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico to hold change-of-command ceremony

WHO: U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico change-of-command ceremony

WHAT: Change-of-command ceremony

WHEN: Friday, July 16, 2010 at 10 a.m.

WHERE: Coast Guard Station New Orleans
201 Hammond Hwy
Metairie, LA 70005

BACKGROUND: Chief Warrant Officer H. Vance Caskey is scheduled to relieve Chief Warrant Officer James Foster in a formal change-of-command ceremony.

Caskey arrives in New Orleans from Sector Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., where he served as the auxiliary training officer from July 2006 until June 2010.

Foster served as commanding officer of the Pamlico from July 2007 until July 2010 and will retire to Eureka, Calif., after 32-years of military service.

The Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico is a 160-foot inland construction tender, homeported in New Orleans and is manned by 16 crewmembers, who construct fixed aids to navigation from Baton Rouge to the Southwest Pass on the Mississippi River and its surrounding waterways.

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