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by Roger Bazeley
EN Crew and GALLEY Chef with food service Auxiliarists John C. Foley and Patricia C. McSwain from District 11 Northern.
The citation noted that Mr. Losi “prepared and serviced over 114 meals for 47 crew members at
a time during a five-week operational period; … facilitated serving sixteen Aids-to-Navigation
stretching from the Oregon – California border to San Francisco; and during ASPEN’s biannual
Tailored Ships Training Availability, participated in 104 drills, attended many shipboard trainings...
and was voted by the instructors as ASPEN’S ‘most valuable player.’”
It was during Mr. Losi’s first extended six day patrol that he decided to ask for endorsement to
engage in the requisite training needed to acquire the Coast Guard Auxiliary Cutter man Insignia,
“which is intended to identify and recognize the commitment of Coast Guard Auxiliarists currently
working in the cutter fleet who have regularly dedicated their efforts in support of the cutter
community.” With the encouragement of USCGC ASPEN crew and officers, Mr. Losi completed,
among other requirements for the cutter insignia, (which program he highly recommends to
interested Auxiliarists cited at http://www.uscg.mil/directives/ci/1000-1999/CI_1650_9.pdf) of
“serving at least 52 days per year aboard a cutter 65’ in length or greater” and “completing the
OR express
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