Rear Admiral Brown’s previous commands include Commander,
Coast Guard Sector Honolulu and Commander, Coast Guard
Group Charleston. From 1999 to 2002, he served as the Mili-
tary Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (DOT), in-
cluding duty as the Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for six months
after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In May 2003,
he served as the Chief of Officer Personnel Management at the
Coast Guard Personnel Command. From April to July 2004, he
was temporarily assigned as the Senior Advisor for Transporta-
tion to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq.
Working in a combat zone, he oversaw restoration of Iraq’s
major transportation systems, including two major ports.
Previous tours of duty include Assistant Engineering Officer
in USCGC GLACIER, Project Engineer at Civil Engineering
Unit Miami, Deputy Group Commander at Coast Guard Group
Mayport, Engineering Assignment Officer in the Officer Person-
nel Division at Coast Guard Headquarters, Facilities Engineer at
Support Center Alameda, and Assistant Chief, Civil Engineering
Division at Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific.
Rear Admiral Brown’s military decorations include the U.S.
Transportation Secretary’s Gold Medal, Legion of Merit, four
Meritorious Service Medals, two Coast Guard Commendation
Medals, the Transportation 9-11 Medal, three Coast Guard
Achievement Medals, the Iraq Campaign Medal and several
other personal and unit awards. In 1994, Rear Admiral Brown
was honored as the first recipient of the Coast Guard’s Captain
John G. Witherspoon Award for Inspiration Leadership.
—Bruce Phillips can be reached at
BPhillips@ccgmag.com
The 21st Annual Black Engineer
of the Year Awards Conference
second Annual Stars and Stripes
Breakfast, honoring African-
American Military Leaders, will
be held Sunday, February 18,
2007. To register log in at
www.beya.org
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