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Meet the CO, CDR Richard J. Schultz
Commander Schultz assumed command of the Atlantic Strike Team on 9 July 2009. Previous to the Atlantic Strike Team, Commander Schultz came from St. Louis, Missouri where he served as Maintenance and Logistics Command Atlantic’s Safety and Environmental Health Officer for the Eighth Coast Guard District’s Western Rivers Region. He provided occupational safety, industrial hygiene, and environmental health support to 56 Coast Guard units located throughout an extensive 22-state area.
In 1993, Commander Schultz received his Coast Guard commission at Officer Candidate School in Yorktown, Virginia. His first tour was in the office of Marine Environmental Protection at Coast Guard Headquarters, where he developed marine safety mission policies. He then served as the Assistant Operations Officer, and later as the Operations Officer, at the Gulf Strike Team in Mobile, Alabama. During this assignment, he responded to pollution and natural disaster incidents and provided emergency response and Incident Command System training throughout the country. He then completed a five-month Port Safety Industry Training Program with the Port of Mobile, Alabama, working with 45 different maritime industries and government agencies in five Gulf ports to understand port complexities and regulatory impacts from the waterway users’ perspective. He was then assigned as Waterways Management Branch Chief at Marine Safety Office Mobile, Alabama. He also served as the Assistant Chief of Port Operations and as a Marine Inspector. While assigned in St. Louis, Commander Schultz deployed as Safety Officer for Hurricane Katrina pollution response, Hurricane Ike Aids to Navigation and Base Galveston reconstitution, Inland Spill of National Significance exercise, and Republican National Convention water-side security operations. He also served on the Atlantic Area Incident Management Assist Team as Operations Section Chief and ICS Process Coach for Midwest floods, MEXUS Gulf Exercise, and the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.
Commander Schultz grew up in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He is a 1990 graduate of the University of Miami with Bachelor of Science Degrees in Marine Science and Biology. He earned a Master of Science Degree in Work Environment–Industrial Hygiene in 2005 from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
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