Reservist

ISS3 2014

Reservist Magazine is the award-winning official publication of the United States Coast Guard Reserve. Quarterly issues include news and feature articles about the men and women who comprise America's premier national maritime safety and security

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46 RESERVIST � Issue 3 • 2014 Reserve Public Afairs Specialist Earns Prestigious Alex Haley Award PA3 Lisa A. Ferdinando was presented with the Chief Journalist Alex Haley award for Public Afairs Specialist of the Year. Ferdinando is the frst reservist to be presented with the award, which recognizes the special achievements of individual Coast Guardsmen whose eforts and published works have communicated the Coast Guard story. The Haley Award is named in honor of the renowned author, Alex Haley, who was the Coast Guard's frst chief journalist. Ferdinando, a Reserve member of Public Afairs Detachment Baltimore, has a varied background in civilian and military public afairs and came to the Coast Guard in 2012. She said she was drawn in by the Coast Guard's humanitarian mission, evidenced by the responses to 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. "I just try to tell the [Coast Guard] story and tell it truthfully, so that others who aren't there will be able to get a feel for what's happening," she said. "The missions are just so amazing." MST1 Nuckley Reenlists at MSU Deluth MST1 Sarah Nuckley (right), of Marine Safety Unit Duluth, recited the oath of enlistment as she re-enlisted for two years in the Coast Guard Reserve. Cmdr. Mary Zvara, Sector Sault Sainte Marie Senior Reserve Ofcer, shown here congratulating PO Nuckley on her reenlistment, presided at the ceremony. Photo by Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Limberg

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