Herald A. Lantern 18 )uly '84 ' t)USID0SS _____ 57

Command Changed By Coast Guard

CAPE MAY — Commander Patrick A. Wendt became commanding officer of Coast Guard Group and Air Station Cape May when he relieved Captain Lance A. Eagan at a change of command ceremony at the air station yesterday. The ceremony featured music from the Training Center Band, an inspection of station personnel Snd remarks by the guest speaker, Capt. Robert L. Johanson, chief of staff for ] the 3rd Coast Guard - District Headquarters in./ Governor's Island, N.Y. V. After serving two years as commanding officer of the group and air station, Capt. Eagan is heading to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D C., where he will be the chief of the Plans Evaluation Division. Commander Wendt came to the group after servdig as chief of the Helicopter Polar Operations Division * in Mobile, Ala. Hailing from Colchester, . Ct., Capt. Eagan graduated from the Coj^st Guard Academy in 1962 with a B.S. in Engineering. Upon commissioning he was assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter BARTARIA. manning the various Ocean Stations on the North Atlantic. Capt. Eagan entered Naval Flight Training and received his wings in 1965. Assigned to Air Station Brooklyn, he flew both the HU 16E Albatross and the

HH52A helicopter. He was atyong the first group of Coast Guard aviators who volunteered to serve in Vietnam on ex change duty with the Air Force. Stationed at Danang, Vietnam and later at Nakon Phanom Thailand; Capt. Eagan flew rescue missions in the HH-3E ' Jolly- Green Giant" helicopter. Upon his return to the Coast Guard, he became an HH 3F instructor pilot at the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, AI. In 1971 Eagan "earned a Master's Degree in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Ca. His next v duty assignment was an / assistant chief, enlisted \ Assignment Branch at Coast Guard Headquarters. Returning to the cockpit

in 1976, he served as executive officer of Air Station Savannah, Ga.. until 1979 and then was assigned as executive officer of Air Station Kodiak, Ak. /jf Captain EAGAN came to Cape May as a distinguished graduate of the Air Forces Senior Service School, the Air War College at Maxwell AFB. Al. He was the Coast Guard's representative in the class of 1982. Capt. Eagan's next duty assignment will be chief. Plans Evaluation Division, at Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington ^ He has been awarded the Silver Star, the fstinguished Flying oss, the Air Medal (with Oak Leaf Clusters), a mbat Action Ribbon, two Iters of Commendation, Presidential Unit Citation, National Defense Medal. Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Ser vice Medal (with four bronze stars). Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross (with palm). Air Force Small Arms Expert, Department of Transporta tion Certificate of Ap preciation. and the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation. Capt Eagan is married to the former Patricia Mary Lock wood of Old Say brook. Ct.. and they have a son Todd and a daughter Heather Bom in Green Bay. Wis . and raised in the Prairie Land, Cdr Wendt graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1965 Tired of school and seeking adventure, he joined the Coast Guard and received orders to flight training following officer candidate school He has served at Air Sla — — - — ^ ne nas servea at Air sia

tions Biloxi, San Francisco. Mobile, Cape Cod and North Bend, Or., as well as a tour at Pensacola as an instructor pilot in Navy primary helicopter train ing He is a plank holder" of the Polar Operations Division in Mobile. Ala . and was the first to return as chief of the division, his last assignment He shipboard qualified on the deck of the CGC Resolute in J 968: deployed on CGC Staten Island in 1969 during her historic escort of the super oil tanker MANHATTAN thiou^| the Northwest Pasage; participated in two Deepfreezes to Antarctica. established the fir J motor lifeboat recurrent training program on the West Coast; created the first realistic Polar Sur vival School; "and has lectured worldwide on helicopter operations and survival techniques in the polar regions His off-duty study led to a Master's Degree in Political Science and he is a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School Flight Safety Officer Program Cdr. Wendt has been awarded the Air Medal, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, two Coast Guard Unit Commendations the Coast Guard Meritorious Jnit Commen datior the Navy Unit Commendation. the National Defense Medal, the Antarc tic Service Medal the Arctic Service Medal, and Rifle and Pistol Awards He received the Navy League Search and Rescue Award in 1973 His wife, Pepper, and childrer. Paige. Dean and stepson. David, share his love of the outdoors and his continuing quest for adventure

'/PHHRKiyJH ■ 1 TJlVtDR. PATRICK WENDT

CAPT. LANCE EAGAN

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