USCGC DALLAS (WHEC 716)
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
CAPT Jim L. Munro
Commanding Officer,
USCGC DALLAS
Captain Munro enlisted in the Coast Guard Oct 1977 while living in Pensacola, Fl. He served ten years as a quartermaster on two 210 ft medium endurance cutters (Key West & Panama City, Fl); and at the Eighth District Command Center in New Orleans. He was selected for Officer Candidate School in 1987 while a Chief Petty Officer aboard cutter DEPENDABLE. He served aboard five additional cutters (three based in the northeast, two of which routinely patrolled the Caribbean; plus two patrol boats based in Puerto Rico), with three intervening operational assignments ashore; District Command Center Controller in New Orleans (90-93), Chief of Search & Rescue in what is now Sector San Juan, PR (97-2000), and Response Chief in Sector New York (03-07). Captain Munro has had two previous commands afloat; CGC OCRACOKE in Puerto Rico (95-97) and most recently cutter CAMPBELL in Kittery, Maine (07-09). He last served as the Coast Guard Liaison Officer in Panama.
Captain Munro holds two Meritorious Service Medals, four Commendation Medals and two Achievement medals and is a member of the Marine Society of New York.