[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 7, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1202]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   IN RECOGNITION OF CWO4 CHAD ADAMS

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, September 7, 2016

  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Chief Warrant Officer 
Chad Adams upon his retirement from 28 years of honorable service to 
the United States Army, the Kentucky National Guard, the United States 
Coast Guard, and this great nation.
   Adams currently serves as the Coast Guard Food Service Program 
Manager within the Office of Work-Life, Health, Safety, and Work-Life 
Directorate at Coast Guard Headquarters (Commandant CG-1111). In this 
capacity, he is responsible for providing strategic policy and support 
to the entire $175M Food Service enterprise, consisting of 1,200 Food 
Service Specialist (FS) members and over 370 Coast Guard Dining 
Facilities worldwide. The Food Service Program office is the central 
authority responsible for the overall technical and administrative 
management policy, planning, and subsistence requirements to ensure 
service-wide mission success.
   Upon graduation from Shelby County High School in May 1988, Chief 
Warrant Officer Adams served with the U.S. Army in the 82nd Airborne 
Division during Operations Just Cause (Panama) and Desert Shield/Storm 
as a paratrooper in the Infantry. After being released from the Army, 
and later the Kentucky National Guard, he enlisted into the Coast Guard 
in March 1994 and graduated boot camp as the basic training honor 
graduate for Company E-144. His first assignment was CGC WHITE PINE out 
of Mobile, AL where he decided to become a Subsistence Specialist (SS) 
after only six months aboard mess cooking. He graduated SS ``A'' school 
as an SS3 in 1995 and was assigned to the CGC MADRONA in Charleston, 
SC. As the duty cook, he advanced to SS2 and fleeted-up into the Jack 
of the Dust position, responsible for developing menus and ordering 
supplies to feed a crew of 50 personnel. He also took over as the Food 
Service Officer (FSO) when the FS1 was unable to get underway. On his 
last day aboard the cutter, he advanced to FS1 and reported to isolated 
duty at LORAN Station St. Paul Island, AK where he served as FSO and 
was awarded runner-up for galley of the year small ashore for the 
entire Coast Guard. After one year in isolation, he was selected to 
become a Company Commander (Drill Instructor) at Cape May, NJ. He 
trained over 1,500 recruits and advanced to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) 
during this tour. He also piloted one of the first training sessions 
with Coast Guard Academy cadets for swab summer in 2001, where he and 
another Company Commander indoctrinated 100 academy cadets from the 
Class of 2003. Chief Adams transferred to TRACEN Petaluma, CA in 2002 
and took over as Chief of the Watch for FS ``A'' School, running one of 
the largest galleys in the Coast Guard. He led a team of three other 
FSs to re-open the upper galley which had been dormant for over a 
decade. He was promoted to Chief Warrant Officer in 2005 and 
transferred to ISC NOLA six weeks before Hurricane Katrina made land 
fall and flooded his home. In 2006, he graduated from Chief Warrant 
Officer professional development at the Coast Guard Academy in New 
London, CT, where he was selected by his peers as the Distinguished 
Officer of his class. His duties included assisting the Comptroller and 
Logistics Branch Chief in providing support to all lower 8th Coast 
Guard District units. He was the D8 IMT Logistics Chief during 
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and the 2008 New Orleans oil spill. He was 
selected to become the FS Assignment Officer in 2010, executing 
assignments (orders) for hundreds of FSs including the White House, DHS 
Secretary's Mess, Commandant and Flag Officer Special Command Aides, 
Instructor, and FSO positions and operational units. In 2012, he was 
invited to the White House to help cook for the United Kingdom State 
Dinner and Greek Independence Day Dinner and has assisted the White 
House chefs for many events since. In July 2014, he was assigned to his 
current position at CG-1111. In September 2016, he will assume the 
duties as the new Subsistence Program Manager as a civil service 
employee.

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