CAPTAIN LINCOLN STROH
Fifth Coast Guard District Chief of Staff
Captain Lincoln D. Stroh assumed the duties as Chief of Staff, Coast Guard Fifth District in June 2011, where he serves under the District Commander overseeing all Coast Guard missions in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States, including the National Capital Region (NCR) and 1.5 million square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Before assuming Chief of Staff, he served as the Deputy Director of Prevention Policy at Headquarters where he provided direction to the field on Prevention missions including Marine Safety, Marine Environmental Protection, Aids to Navigation, Icebreaking, and Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security.
Captain Stroh has over 15 years of operations ashore duty, including 3 Commands across 2 Sectors and 4 Marine Safety Offices (MSO) on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Western Rivers. He was Commander, Sector New Orleans (‘07-‘09); Deputy Commander, Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi (‘05-‘07); Commanding Officer, MSO Corpus Christi (‘04-‘05); Commanding Officer, MSO Huntington (‘00-‘03); Chief, Port Operations, MSO Jacksonville (‘96-‘98); Chief, Inspections, MSO Jacksonville (‘94-‘96); and Marine Inspector, MSO/Group Portland, Oregon (‘91-‘94).
Captain Stroh has 7 years of NCR staff assignments. In addition to his recent Deputy Director tour, he was Chief, Coordination Staff, Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection Directorate, (‘98-‘00); and, Staff Naval Architect, Marine Safety Center (‘88-‘91).
Prior to a 1988 needs-of-the-service career change to the Marine Safety program, Captain Stroh was a Naval Engineer. His naval engineering tours included duty under instruction (‘86-‘88) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Quality Assurance Inspector (‘85-‘86) at Icebreaker Support Facility, Seattle, and Engineering Watch Officer (‘83-‘85) on USCGC BOUTWELL.
Captain Stroh is a 1983 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering with High Honors. He holds two Master of Science Degrees from MIT; one in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering; the other in Polymers. He also completed a one-year Federal Executive Fellowship in Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution in 2004.
He holds a National Incident Management System Type-I (National Level) Incident Commander Certification, and he is a registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical Engineering) in the State of Oregon. His awards include two Legions of Merit, three Meritorious Service Medals, the 9-11 Medal, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, three Coast Guard Achievement Medals and various other personal and unit awards.
Recent temporary assignments include overseeing the Deepwater Horizon Spill of National Significance as Incident Commander and Federal On-Scene Coordinator leading 8000 responders, 450 Coast Guard members, and an $11 million/day response for 3 months; and, representing the United States as the Head of Delegation to the International Maritime Organization’s Flag State Implementation Sub-Committee meetings in 2011 and 2010.
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