CAPTAIN JAMES L. McCAULEY, USCG

Prior to reporting aboard CGC RUSH, Captain McCauley served from 2008 to 2010 as the Coast Guard Attaché to Canada at the U.S. Defense Attaché Office in Ottawa, Ontario. As a military attaché, his duties involved representing the Coast Guard to the host-nation government and military, as well as providing advice and assistance to the U.S. Ambassador on matters involving the Coast Guard's interaction with the Government of Canada.

Captain McCauley has also served as Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard cutters STORIS and FIREBUSH in Kodiak, Alaska and CAPE SHOALWATER in West Palm Beach, Florida. His other afloat assignments include the cutters SPAR in South Portland, Maine and DEPENDABLE in Panama City Beach, Florida. His prior assignments ashore include Chief of the Cutter Acquisition Division in the Office of Cutter Forces, Design Team Leader at the Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Providence, and Seamanship Instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy.

His personal awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medal, Coast Guard Commendation Medal, CoastGuard Achievement Medal, and Navy Achievement Medal. He is a licensed Master of Steam or Motor Vessels, has earned the permanent Cutterman Insignia, and has been awarded the Distinguished Pistol Badge. Captain McCauley is a 1985 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, and he earned a Masters Degree in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.