D. Brian Peterman
Vice Admiral David Brian Peterman retired in July 2008.
Prior to retiring he was Commander, Atlantic Area/ Commander, Defense Force East.
He assumed command of United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area on May 9, 2006 and was the operational commander for all Coast Guard activities in an area of responsibility east of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico, across the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf and throughout the Caribbean Sea.
Over 33,000 military and civilian personnel, and 30,000 auxiliarists were under his leadership.
He served concurrently as Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Defense Force East.
With this change of command, Peterman relieved Vice Admiral Vivien S. Crea.
He reported to the Coast Guard Atlantic Area from an assignment as Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District where he led Coast Guard tactical operations in the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean.
Prior to that, he served for two- and- a- half years as the Special Assistant to the President for Border and Transportation Security on the Homeland Security Council staff.
This was his second assignment to the White House, having previously served as a Director in the Defense Policy and Arms Control Directorate of the National Security Council from 1988 to 2000.
Vice Admiral Peterman is a Coast Guard Cutterman and commanded two cutters: Coast Guard Cutter WOODRUSH out of Sitka, Alaska, and Coast Guard Cutter CAMPBELL out of New Bedford, Massachusetts In addition, he served aboard Coast Guard Cutter ACHUSHNET out of Gulfport, Miss., and Coast Guard Cutter SWEETBRIER out of Cordova, Alaska.
In addition to his shipboard assignments, Vice Admiral Peterman served in a number of assignments ashore.
As the first Coast Guard officer in the Military Liaison Office in Kingston, Jamaica, he trained Jamaica Defense Force personnel for peacekeeping operations in Grenada.
From 1988 to 1990, he served at the Headquarters, U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, where he managed a program that required extensive travel in North and West Africa.
Later, he commanded the Coast Guard ’s key Alaska industrial and operational facility in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Raised in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vice Admiral Peterman is a 1968 graduate of Great Valley High School, earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from West Chester University in 1972 and entered the Coast Guard through the Officer Candidate program.
In 1988 he earned a Master of Science Degree from the Naval War College.
His military awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Joint Meritorious Service Medal, Cutterman ’s insignia and the Presidential Service insignia.
Fighting Coast Guard
Fighting Coast Guard is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Kenneth Gamet.
The film stars Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines, John Russell, Richard Jaeckel, William Murphy and Martin Milner.
The film was released on June 1, 1951, by Republic Pictures.
Joseph Kane
Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (March 19, 1894, San Diego – August 25, 1975, Santa Monica, California) was an American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter.
He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on Western films.
Willard J. Smith
Willard John Smith( May 14, 1910 – April 1, 2000) served as the thirteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1966 to 1970.
He was born in Suttons Bay, Michigan, and was the son of Oscar Smith, a retired commissioned warrant officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and his wife, Emma Bequist.
Upon graduation from high school in Charlevoix, Michigan, he entered the University of Michigan, but later transferred to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
Upon graduation from the academy in 1933, he was assigned to a Galveston, Texas- based Coast Guard cutter and later served as an aide to Commandant Russell R. Waesche from 1936 to 1939.
During World War II, he was assigned to the Coast Guard's aviation branch and was responsible for the construction and commissioning of Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, California, where he was assigned to duty until 1946.
From 1946 to 1948, he served as commander of Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Michigan before his assignment as assistant chief of the Coast Guard's Aviation Division from 1948 to 1950.
From 1950 to 1951, he attended the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.
From 1962 to 1965, he served as superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy.
From 1965, until his appointment as commandant, he served as commander of the Cleveland, Ohio- based 9th Coast Guard District.
As commandant in 1967, he oversaw the transfer of the Coast Guard from the United States Department of the Treasury to the United States Department of Transportation.
Upon completion of his service as Coast Guard Commandant in June 1970, he moved to Traverse City, Michigan.
The following October, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary for Safety and Consumer Affairs at the United States Department of Transportation, serving under then- Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe until July 1971, when he returned to Traverse City.
In 1973 he became admiral of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, Michigan and held the position until 1974.
He subsequently moved to Atlantic Beach, Florida, where his wife, the former Harriet A. Lary died on February 2, 2000, two months before he himself died, aged 89.
Following cremation, his remains were interred alongside his late wife's remains in Arlington National Cemetery.
At the time of his death, he was the oldest- living former Coast Guard Commandant.
R. Jay Lloyd
Robert Jay Lloyd was the sixth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, serving as the enlisted advisor to the Commandant of the Coast Guard, from 1990 to 1994.
A Coast Guard veteran of 33 years, Lloyd served as Officer in Charge of USCG" Point Bennett" in Port Townsend, Washington; USCGC" Point Winslow" in Eureka, California; and Coast Guard Station Cortez in Cortez, Florida.
He also served as Executive Petty Officer at Loran Station Anguar Palau, Western Carolina Islands and Coast Guard Station Willapa Bay, Washington.
His seagoing experience included assignments on board USCGC" Point Hope", Sabine, TX; USCGC" Barataria", Alameda, California; USCGC" Confidence", Kodiak, Alaska; and USCGC" Cape Carter", Crescent City, California.
Earlier in his career, Lloyd served at the Fourteenth Coast Guard District Office, Honolulu, Hawaii; Coast Guard Reserve Unit Denver, Colorado; and Coast Guard Base Alameda, California.
On June 29, 1990, Lloyd became the sixth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard.
Prior to his selection, he served as Command Enlisted Advisor of the Seventeenth Coast Guard District in Juneau, Alaska.
He had also previously served as Command Enlisted Advisor for the Eighth Coast Guard District, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lloyd attended more than a dozen specialized training courses during his career.
He is a graduate of the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy; United States Coast Guard Senior Petty Officer Leadership and Management School, and Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute.
He also has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in History from New Mexico State University.
His military awards include two Legion of Merit Medals, Meritorious Service Medal, three Coast Guard Commendation Medals, Coast Guard Achievement Medal, Commandant's Letter of Commendation with" O" device, two Coast Guard Unit Commendation's with" O" device, Bicentennial Unit Commendation, eight Coast Guard Good Conduct Awards, National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Star, Humanitarian Service Medal, Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon, Coast Guard Restricted Duty Ribbon, Coast Guard Expert Rifleman Medal, and Coast Guard Expert Pistol Shot Medal.
He is a member of the advisory board of VetJobs.
William D. Baumgartner
William D. Baumgartner was a United States Coast Guard rear admiral who served as the Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District.
He was also the Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the United States Coast Guard.
In this capacity, he was the Coast Guard ’s senior legal advisor and is responsible for all aspects of the service ’s legal program.
A native of Collinsville, Illinois, he is a 1980 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy where he received Bachelor of Science degrees in Marine Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of New Orleans and a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he also served as an editor on the" Harvard Law Review".
Previously, Baumgartner served as Chief, Office of Maritime and International Law, at Coast Guard Headquarters and headed the U.S. delegation to the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization.
He has also served as the Staff Judge Advocate for the Seventh Coast Guard District in Miami, Florida and as the Chief of Staff for Homeland Security Task Force Southeast, an interagency task force charged with planning for and executing Caribbean mass migration deterrence and response operations.
Previous legal assignments also include tours at the Eighth Coast Guard District, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Coast Guard Maintenance& Logistics Command Pacific in Alameda, California, and Naval Legal Services Office West in San Francisco, California.
Prior to joining the Coast Guard's legal program, Baumgartner specialized in surface operations and served as the Commanding Officer of" USCGC Point Verde" and" USCGC Penobscot Bay", as a deck officer on" USCGC Dependable", and as an operations center controller for the Eighth Coast Guard District where he directed Search and Rescue, law enforcement and other Coast Guard operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
RADM Baumgartner retired from the Coast Guard on June 26, 2013
Philip F. Smith
Philip Francis Smith( August 23, 1932 – June 22, 2017) was the second Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, serving as the enlisted advisor to the Commandant of the Coast Guard, from 1973 to 1977.
Smith became the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard on August 1, 1973, succeeding Charles Calhoun.
He enlisted in the Coast Guard on September 20, 1949, and after recruit training served aboard, homeported at Seattle, Washington.
After attending yeoman school at the Coast Guard Training Center at Groton, Connecticut in 1950, he returned to Seattle to serve in the operations division, Thirteenth Coast Guard District.
Following a tour of sea duty aboard USCGC" Bering Strait" homeported at Honolulu, Hawaii from September 1952 to May 1954, he returned again to Seattle to serve as yeoman in the personnel division of the Thirteenth District office.
Later tours of duty included the Marine Inspection Office, Guam, Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles Washington, the personnel division at the Seventeenth Coast Guard District office, Juneau, Alaska, Coast Guard Air Station San Diego, California, and the personnel division of the Eleventh Coast Guard District office at Long Beach, California.
From March 1968 to March 1969, he served aboard, homeported at Seattle.
He then returned to the personnel division in the Thirteenth Coast Guard District.
He was promoted to the rating of master chief yeoman on July 1, 1966.
While serving his last tour of duty at Seattle, Smith was selected as the second Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard by the Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Chester R. Bender.
His service medals and awards include the Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal with silver star, National Defense Service Medal with bronze star, United Nations Service Medal, Korean Service Medal.
Master Chief Smith died on June 22, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.
Terry M. Cross
Terry M. Cross (born 1947) is a retired United States Coast Guard Vice Admiral who served as Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from July 2004 until June 2006.
He served as the Coast Guard's second in command and was the Agency Acquisition Executive.
Prior to his assignment as Vice Commandant, he served as Commander, Pacific Area.
VADM Cross was responsible for all Coast Guard operations west of the Rocky Mountains and throughout the Pacific Basin to the Far East, an area encompassing over 73 million square miles.
Under his leadership, Pacific Area units established the first Coast Guard maritime intelligence fusion center, participated in the Iraq War and Operation Liberty Shield, and set new records for illegal drug seizures.
VADM Cross previously served as the Assistant Commandant for Operations, where he was responsible for management oversight of all Coast Guard operating programs, including maritime safety, law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense.
He initiated the Coast Guards' Maritime Domain Awareness initiative, succeeded in gaining formal membership in the Intelligence Community for the Coast Guard and led efforts that rapidly supported the Coast Guard's Homeland Security Strategy, including the development of deployable Maritime Safety and Security Teams.
Cross' other flag assignments included service as Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District; Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard District and Director of Operations Policy at Coast Guard Headquarters.
Previous operational assignments service as a Deck Watch Officer aboard the cutter USCGC "McCulloch", Operations Officer of Air Station Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Commanding Officer of Air Station San Francisco, California.
Staff assignments included service as the Chief of Staff, Atlantic Area; Chief, Office of Programs; Chief, Office of Budget; and Chief, Office of Acquisition Resource Management at Coast Guard Headquarters.
Cross graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1970 with a B.S. degree in Engineering.
He also earned a master's degree in Industrial Administration from Purdue University's Krannert School of Management and is a graduate of the National War College.
Richard D. Herr
Richard Dennis Herr( born November 2, 1941) is a retired vice admiral in the United States Coast Guard who served as the 20th Vice Commandant from 1996 to 1998.
He was previously Commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area and U.S. Maritime Defense Zone Pacific, Resource Director, Comptroller, Coast Guard Chief Financial Officer, Commander of the Eleventh Coast Guard District, Commander of Joint Task Force Five, Commander of Coast Guard Air Station and Commander of Coast Guard Aviation Training Center.
He is an alumnus of the United States Coast Guard Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, and National War College.
His awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, three Legions of Merit, two Meritorious Service Medals, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, and the Coast Guard Achievement Medal.
He is married to Susan Andrews and has two children.
Bruce Beran
Arnold Bruce Beran( born August 8, 1935) is a retired United States Coast Guard vice admiral.
He served as Commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area, Chief of Staff of the United States Coast Guard and Commanding Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters.

Question: Where was the place of death of the director of film Fighting Coast Guard?
Answer: Santa Monica