Complex sentence: In July 1972 Steverson was reassigned from Alaska to Washington, D.C. to became the Chief of the newly formed Minority Recruiting Section of the USCG, and was charged with working toward desegregating the nearly all-white USCG, starting with the United States Coast Guard Academy.
Split into simpler sentences: In July 1972 he was reassigned from Alaska to Washington, D.C. and became the Chief of the newly formed Minority Recruiting Section. As the Chief of the Minority Recruiting Section he was charged with desegregating the nearly all-white United States Coast Guard Academy.