During this tour he introduced the law enforcement mission to the crews of his rescue boats, resulting in the seizure of 14 smuggling vessels and over 100,000 pounds of marijuana in less than two years. D.C. As the Coast Guard's Liaison Officer at the State Department, he coordinated complex and sensitive law enforcement operations involving the Coast Guard, the State Department, and U.S. Embassies worldwide. After leaving State, he was assigned as Deputy Chief of the Law Enforcement Program Office at Coast Guard Headquarters, where he continued his involvement in law enforcement operations with foreign policy impact. In 1986 CAPT Cashdollar was named Deputy Director of the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System Regional Office in Miami, where he designed and supervised the multiagency intelligence center which supported all U.S. interdiction operations in the Caribbean. In 1989 he was detailed to the Executive Office of the President, serving as an interdiction specialist with the Office of National Drug Control Policy at their regional office in Miami, where he was actively involved in local and national drug control policy development and oversight.
Primary missions are law enforcement, search and rescue, and aids to navigation maintenance.
He retired from active duty in the Coast Guard and assumed his current position as Executive Director of Public Safety for the City of Mobile in June of 1994. Mr. Cashdollar received his Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Miami's Graduate School of Business in 1987. His wife, Brenda, currently senes as Lead Legal Secretary at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Mobile. The Cashdollars have two children, Jessica and Kenneth. Both currently are students at the University of South Alabama.