[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 28, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1131]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN DAVID MOORE

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                         HON. SOLOMON P. ORTIZ

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 27, 2000

  Mr. ORTIZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a special service 
officer, Captain David Moore, commander of Coast Guard Group and Air 
Station Corpus Christi, who retires this week.
  Captain Moore is the model service officer for the Coast Guard. In 
addition to just being an outstanding man, he deals squarely with 
whatever comes up, and he is a tireless advocate for the United States 
Coast Guard and the men and women who serve in his command.
  This Coastie from the heartland (Iowa) began his service with the 
U.S. Coast Guard as a deck watch officer aboard the Coast Guard 
lcebreaker Glacier, deployed to both the Arctic and Antarctica, where 
he developed a love of the earth's polar regions. He later earned his 
Naval aviator wings in Pensacola, FL.
  While stationed in Alabama, after his first Coast Guard aviation 
tour, he was the operational commander for recovery operations after 
the onslaught of Hurricane Frederick. More importantly, while there, he 
met and married the former Lisa Scott of Mobile, Alabama.
  Returning to the Arctic, Captain Moore was stationed at Kodiak, 
Alaska. Following that, he moved to Air Station San Francisco where he 
deployed support to the Exxon Valdez cleanup and responded to the San 
Francisco Bay Area earthquake in 1988.
  In 1994, he returned to Alaska, stationed at Coast Guard Air Station 
Sitka, the area to which he and Lisa will return upon his retirement. 
In 1996, he went south again, this time as chief of the Intelligence 
Division, Coast Guard Pacific Area in Alameda, California. He came to 
South Texas in 1998, assuming command of Group and Air Station Corpus 
Christi.
  During his time in South Texas, he has overseen a growth in the Coast 
Guard facilities in Port Isabel/South Padre Island and was the incident 
commander for Hurricane Brett last year.
  He is highly decorated; his personal awards for service include: 4 
Coast Guard Commendation Medals, 4 Coast Guard Unit Commendations, 6 
Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendations, a Navy Meritorious Unit 
Commendation, 5 Humanitarian Service Medals and both the Arctic and 
Antarctica Service Medals. Captain Moore has accumulated over 6,000 
flight hours, and his flight accomplishments include instructor pilot 
and chief of the Training Division at the Aviation Training Center in 
Mobile, AL.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in commending this unique patriot as 
he and his wife leave South Texas for life as civilians in Alaska.

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