Portal:United States Coast Guard/Selected biography

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Admiral Thad William Allen (born January 16, 1949) served as the twenty-third Commandant of the United States Coast Guard. Allen is most well known for his widely-praised performance directing the federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast region from September 2005 to January 2006.

Allen served as the Coast Guard's chief of staff from May 2002 until May 2006. As chief of staff, Allen was third in the Coast Guard's command structure, and was commanding officer of Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Allen directed the Coast Guard's East Coast response efforts to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 while serving as Atlantic Area Commander and Commander of the Maritime Defense Zone Atlantic.

Ellsworth P. Bertholf (April 7, 1866-November 11, 1921) was a Congressional Gold Medal recipient who later served as the fourth Captain-Commandant of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and after the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service with the United States Life Saving Service to form the United States Coast Guard, he continued to serve as Commandant during World War I.

Dorothy Constance Stratton, Captain, USCGR. (March 24, 1899, Brookfield, Missouri - September 17, 2006, West Lafayette, Indiana) was the director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve SPARS during World War II.

Daniel C. Burbank (born 27 July 1961) is an American astronaut and a veteran of two space shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut (the first was Bruce Melnick).

Burbank, born in Manchester, Connecticut and raised in Tolland, Connecticut, where he graduated from Tolland High School. He attended the United States Coast Guard Academy, earning his commission in 1985. In 1987, he went through flight training and became an instructor pilot, serving at various Coast Guard stations in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Sitka, Alaska. NASA selected him as an astronaut candidate in 1996 and flew as a mission specialist aboard STS-106 in 2000. He was a mission specialist on STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. Burbank made his first spacewalk on September 13, during a 7 hour EVA to activate the solar panels on the International Space Station's new P3/4 truss.