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White House Taps Vice Adm. Linda Fagan for Coast Guard Vice Commandant
April 19, 2021 7:23 PM
Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, Pacific Area Commander, drops in on chief’s call with Pacific Area Command Master Chief Heath Jones aboard Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB-10) on Sept. 16, 2019. US Coast Guard Photo
The Biden administration has tapped Vice Adm. Linda Fagan to serve as the Coast Guard’s new vice commandant, a promotion that would make her the service’s first woman to receive four stars, the Coast Guard announced today.
In a release, the service said that Fagan, who leads Coast Guard Pacific Area, is up for a promotion to receive four stars and become the new vice commandant.
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As one of the first women accepted into the US Coast Guard Academy in the late 1970s, Sandra L. Stosz would rise through the ranks of the predominantly male armed forces to eventually become a vice admiral and then earn the distinction of becoming the first woman superintendent of the service academy where she got her start.Â
Admiral Stosz, now retired from the Coast Guard, was raised in the small town of Ellicott City, Maryland, but spent summers at her maternal grandparents home on Great Bay in Falmouth. It was in her grandfatherâs wooden rowboat, paddling off the shores of Falmouth, that she first learned to navigate the open water and cultivated a lifelong passion for a life at sea. Although no one in the family prior to Admiral Stosz spent time serving in the military, she attributes her maternal grandfather s âinfluence to waterâ and a lifelong desire to sail as significant factors in her decision to join the Coast Guard.
WASHINGTON – Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan has been nominated by the White House to be the next Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
She currently serves as the commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area, overseeing all Coast Guard missions from the Rocky Mountains to the waters off the East Coast of Africa. Fagan concurrently serves as commander, Defense Force West and provides Coast Guard mission support to the Department of Defense and Combatant Commanders. Fagan is a 1985 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy and is the Coast Guard’s first-ever Gold Ancient Trident, the officer with the longest service record in the Marine Safety field.