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Captain Drew W. Pearson
Sector Commander
Captain Pearson reported to Sector
San Juan in May 2011.
In his role as Sector Commander, he leads approximately
650 active duty, reserve and civilian men and women to conduct
all Coast Guard missions in the Eastern Caribbean.
He exercises a variety of statutory authorities as
Captain of the Port, Officer in Charge – Marine Inspections,
Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, Federal On-Scene
Coordinator and Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator.
Prior to his assignment to Sector San Juan, Captain Pearson served as the Chief of the Incident Management Branch for the Coast Guard’s Seventh District, headquartered in Miami, Florida. His responsibilities included oversight of all Search and Rescue (SAR), Marine Environmental Protection efforts, and mounting incident response efforts to address all threats, all hazards in the Southeast United States and the Caribbean Basin including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and over 15,000 miles of coastline. He led the Seventh District’s Command Center, home to Rescue Coordination Center Miami, prosecuting SAR and all other Coast Guard missions across the Seventh District which shares borders with 34 Foreign Nations and Territories. In addition, he co-chaired two Regional Response Teams with the Environmental Protection Agency under the National Contingency Plan and represented the Seventh District on two Federal Emergency Management Agency Regional Interagency Steering Committees. In 2010, he served as the Planning Section Chief and Air Operations Branch Director during the Seventh District’s response to the Haiti Earthquake, he was the Federal Coordinator’s Action Officer at Super Bowl XLIV and the Incident Commander for the Florida Peninsula Command Post during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Captain Pearson
is a 1984 graduate of the Coast Guard Officer Candidate School.
After an assignment as a Duty Officer at Coast Guard
Group Galveston, Texas he was selected for Naval Flight Training
and earned his wings in 1986. Captain Pearson has served as an
HC-130H Flight Examiner, Aircraft Commander, and Air Station
Operations Department Head while conducting SAR, Drug
Interdiction, Fisheries and Immigration Enforcement, and Defense
operations across the Caribbean, Atlantic, Gulf of Alaska, and
Bering Sea. In
addition he served as the Executive Officer at the Coast Guard’s
only Support Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina and on the
Coast Guard Headquarters staff in the Office of Aviation Forces
where he was the HC-130H and Aviation Sensors Platform Manager.
In this role, he developed and implemented operational
requirements for modernizing the Coast Guard’s Maritime Patrol
Aircraft fleet and sensor systems.
During the course of his career he has accumulated over
5600 hours of flight time.
Captain Pearson is a native of Cliffside Park, NJ and a 1983 graduate of Wesley College where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science. He holds a Master of Arts in Emergency and Disaster Management from the American Military University and a Master’s Certificate in Community Preparedness and Disaster Management from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Captain Pearson was designated a Certified Emergency Manager by the International Association of Emergency Managers in 2006 and holds an Airline Transport Pilot license from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Captain Pearson’s personal awards include; three Meritorious Service Medals, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, the Coast Guard Achievement Medal, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Medal, and two Commandant’s Letter of Commendation.
Captain Marc D. Stegman
Deputy Sector Commander
Captain Marc D. Stegman reported to Sector San Juan in July 2010. Prior to this assignment, Captain Stegman served as Director, Systems Solutions Division detailed to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Washington, D.C. As Director, Systems Solutions Division, his responsibilities included management and oversight of a broad portfolio of major DHS acquisition projects focused on securing the nation’s borders.
Prior seagoing assignments have included tours as Commanding Officer of USCGC ACUSHNET (WMEC 167) homeported in Ketchikan, Alaska, Commanding Officer of the Juniper Class buoy tender, USCGC KUKUI (WLB 203) homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii, Executive Officer of USCGC SASSAFRAS (WLB 401) also in Honolulu, Commanding Officer of USCGC POINT HOPE (WPB 82302) in Sabine Pass, Texas, and Deck Watch Officer aboard USCGC BASSWOOD (WLB 388) in Guam.
Other prior staff assignments have included duty as Deputy Division Chief, PACAREA Operational Planning Division in Alameda, California, Seventh Coast Guard District Chief of Aids to Navigation and Waterways Management Branch, Program Reviewer in the Office of Programs in Washington, D.C., Program Manager in the Office of Aids to Navigation, Coast Guard Headquarters, and SAR Controller at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Captain Stegman is a 1983 graduate of the University of Florida and was commissioned in 1986 upon completion of Officer Candidate School in Yorktown, Virginia. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Personal awards include three Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medals, six Coast Guard Commendation Medals, a Commandant's Letter of Commendation, and numerous service and unit awards.
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