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Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer makes history

By Toni Rico on May 31, 2013 Coast Guard, Helicopters, leadership, Mentoring, Navy, Rescue swimmers

Rescue swimmers in the Coast Guard have to be a tough lot. That’s even more true for female rescue swimmers. There are only four of them in the service, and that gives you a good indication of their caliber. In April, we wrote about Aviation Survival Technician 2nd Class Jaime Vanacore, a rescue swimmer who was trying out for American Ninja Warrior (she got invited to Las Vegas for finals, by the way) and now Chief Aviation Survival Technician Karen Voorhees has made history by becoming the first female rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard to make chief. She was…

Sea-Air-Space notebook: Blind officer, Paralympian talks about transition

By Jacqueline Klimas on April 8, 2013 EOD, Mentoring, Navy, Sea Air Space

Lt. Brad Snyder’s presentation at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium outside Washington, D.C., didn’t have any PowerPoint slides. “I can’t see it, so you can’t either,” he said during the Monday afternoon speaker floor session at the Navy League booth. Snyder was blinded by an improvised explosive device blast during a deployment to Afghanistan in September 2011. During his recovery, the Naval Academy grad and former swimmer got back into the pool to regain his confidence. He never imagined it would lead him to the London Paralympics last summer, where he won two gold medals and one silver. The…

Mentoring Afghan lawyers … and future leaders

By Bill McMichael on January 9, 2012 Afghanistan, Law, Mentoring, Navy, State Department

A Navy lawyer has been helping mentor five young Afghan law students from Balkh University while preparing to take part in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Lt. Megan Romigh and Department of State Foreign Service Officer Jeff Arnold joined a USAID team that provided “support and mentoring” to the team in late 2011, according to Arnold. “I’m a New Yorker,” Romigh says on the tape. “I lived in Manhattan on 9/11. So it was very important for me to come here and especially with this team in particular, to actually work so closely with these Afghan…

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