Santa Barbara Coast Guardsman receives regional professional excellence award
SAN DIEGO – Chief Petty Officer James S. Gracey, executive petty officer of Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin, received the Admiral James S. Gracey Award for Professional Excellence during the Coast Guard Foundation’s 26th Annual Pacific Area awards dinner in San Diego, Aug. 3, 2011.
The awards dinner was held to recognize specific acts of outstanding heroism, leadership and mission achievement performed...