Nov 11, 2022 Vallejo Veterans Memorial Park, Vallejo, CA
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Date: 2022-11-12

VETERANS DAY
Vallejo Veterans Memorial Park
Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, 11AM
Behind Vallejo City Hall
3 Capitol Street, Vallejo, CA 94590
Sponsored by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Carl H. Kreh Post 1123
www.VFW1123.org
and
www.VallejoVetsBuilding.org
420 Admiral Callaghan Lane
Vallejo, CA 94591
and the
City of Vallejo
www.CityofVallejo.net

VETERANS DAY, FRIDAY, NOV. 11, 2022, 11AM
1. MASTER OF CEREMONIES           JR. VICE-COMMANDER JEFFREY HALL
2. PRESENTING THE COLORS                                 BOY SCOUT TROOP #12
3. NATIONAL ANTHEM                       MAXIMILLIAN REX BURGESS-SHANNON
4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE                3-WAR VETERAN  CHIEF RAY WILSON
5. INVOCATION                                             POST CHAPLAIN STEVE BENNETT
6. WELCOME          MAYOR MCCONNELL & ELECTED OFFICIALS / PROXIES
7. INTRODUCING THE CAPTAIN                 SR. VICE-CMDR CHARLES SPEIR
8.                                         US COAST GUARD CAPTAIN HOLLY HARRISON
9. INTRODUCING THE ADMIRAL             USN CAPT (RET) THOMAS SNYDER
10.                        US NAVY REAR ADMIRAL LEONARD C. ‘BUTCH’ DOLLAGA
11. ACKNOWLEDGE 17 MEDAL OF HONORS    POST CMDR HANK HOWARD
12. TAPS                                                                                  MIKE FEATHERSTONE
13. BENEDICTION                                           POST CHAPLAIN STEVE BENNETT
REAR ADMIRAL LEONARD C. “BUTCH” DOLLAGA
Chief of Legislative Affairs, US Navy
   United States Navy Rear Admiral Leonard C. “Butch” Dollaga is a native of Vallejo, proudly attended Vallejo City Unified School District schools, was a Hogan High School Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet and graduated in 1986 with honors. In 1990, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He also holds a master’s degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University in Washington, DC. 
   RADM Dollaga’s sea tours include division officer assignments aboard USS Los Angeles (SSN 688); engineer officer aboard USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740)(B); and executive officer aboard USS Cheyenne (SSN 773). He commanded USS Charlotte (SSN 766) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and also served as commodore of Submarine Development Squadron 12, Groton, CT.
   RADM Dollaga’s flag assignments include commander, Undersea Warfighting Development Center in Groton, CT, and most recently commander, Submarine Group SEVEN/Task Force 54/Task Force 74 leading undersea operations in both the United States Central Command and United States Indo-Pacific Command areas of responsibility.
   RADM Dollaga completed three overseas deployments in Indo-Pacific Command and five strategic deterrent patrols in the Atlantic. The units he served with collectively earned four unit awards, five Battle Effectiveness Awards, and the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy. 

CAPTAIN HOLLY R. HARRISON
Chief of Response U.S. Coast Guard District Eleven
   United States Coast Guard Captain Holly Harrison assumed the duties of Chief of Response for the Eleventh Coast Guard District in Alameda, CA, in July 2021, where she oversees all U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue, law enforcement, and other operational missions encompassing the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, over a thousand miles of coastline, waters extending offshore over a thousand miles, and offshore waters in the Eastern Pacific off Mexico and Central America down to South America.
   CAPT Harrison has spent the majority of her career at sea aboard six different ships, including command of USCGC AQUIDNECK (WPB-1309) during the invasion of Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and most recently command of USCGC KIMBALL (WMSL 756), the Coast Guard’s seventh National Security Cutter homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii.  Her staff tours include Chief of Drug and Migrant Interdiction in the Office of Law Enforcement, Executive Assistant to the Director of the Coast Guard Investigative Service, Executive Officer of the Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Enforcement Academy, and Program Reviewer in the Office of Budget and Programs.  External assignments include service as a White House Fellow assigned to NASA as a Senior Adviser to the Administrator and acting Deputy Chief of Staff, National Security Affairs Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and Program Examiner for the White House Office of Management and Budget’s National Security Division.  
   CAPT Harrison has a degree in government from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University and a master’s degree in education from George Washington University.  Her awards include the Bronze Star, Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medal (4 awards), Coast Guard Commendation Medal (5 awards), and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.