Captain Charley L. Diaz serves as the pacific area chief of staff in Alame- da, Ca., reporting to his current position in March of 2008. Prior, he served as acting director of the U.S. Coast Guard International Affairs Directorate at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Captain Diaz has served on six ships, commanding four of them. His first assignment was aboard the USCG cutter ACTIVE in New Castle, N.H. in 1982. From 2005-2007, he commanded SHERMAN, a 378-foot high endurance cutter in Alameda, Ca. In March 2007, SHERMAN seized a motor vessel with nearly 20 tons of cocaine worth an esti- mated $750 million – it was the largest maritime drug bust in U.S. history.


From 1986- 1990, Captain Diaz served in the Of- fice of Law Enforcement at USCG


Headquarters, where he was


the initial project officer for the success- ful USCG Law Enforcement Detachment program aboard U.S. Navy ships. In 1992 he served as an officer assignment detailer. From 1999-2001, he spent time on Capitol Hill and was selected to serve as the first USCG congressional fellow to Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Captain Diaz helped identify the critical link be- tween illegal drug profits and worldwide terrorism. He was also instrumental in pushing legislation to establish the USCG as an official member of the U.S. intelligence community and move the USCG to the newly created Department of Homeland Security.


Captain Diaz has conducted extensive studies in homeland security and na- tional defense. He is a proud graduate of the USCG Academy in New London, Ct. He graduated from the U.S. Naval War College in 1993. In 1997, he earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Govern- ment at Harvard. In 2004, he served as a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institu- tion in Washington, D.C. He is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.


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Rear Admiral Albert Garcia III was commissioned as an ensign, Civil Engi- neer Corps, U.S. Navy, from the Naval ROTC program at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1977. After com- pleting the Civil Engineer Corps Officer School, Basic, he reported to Naval Sta- tion Rota, Spain, as the activity civil en- gineer in the Public Works Department. In February of 1980, Rear Admiral Garcia was transferred to western divisions of the Naval Facilities Engineering Com- mand as the assistant resident officer in charge of construction for the San Fran- cisco Bay Area. He was recalled to active duty for Operation Desert Storm, where he was assigned as the naval liaison officer for engineering to U.S. Central Command. In 2003, Rear Admiral Garcia was recalled in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he commanded Task Force Charlie of the Marine Expedition- ary Force Engineer- ing Group and later was assigned as the deputy commander of the MEF Engineering Group in Iraq.


A year later, he as- sumed responsibil- ity for consolidating


several reserve augment units into a new command, Naval Engineering Facilities Command, where he served as the contingency officer in charge of construction. In 2005, he assumed the duties of deputy commander of the 1st Naval Construction Division. In 2008, he was assigned as deputy commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Com- mand. Rear Admiral Garcia’s profes- sional background includes a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. in environmental engineering. He was a tenured associate professor at Texas A&M, responsible for both teaching and working with research programs in advanced bioreactor design. He has actively consulted in the United States, Europe, and Central America. In 1992 he started MRV Engineers and Construc- tors, a design/build corporation special- izing in industrial wastewater treatment projects throughout the United States. He currently serves as a program manager for AMEC Earth and En- vironmental Services, a leading engineering consulting firm.


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On April 1, 2010, Marine Corps Briga- dier General David C. Garza was nominated for appointment to the rank of major general. Brigadier General Garza is currently serving as the chief of staff, United States Southern Command, Miami. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1969 as a heavy equip- ment engineer. After training, he de- ployed to the Republic of South Vietnam in 1970 for a 19-month tour of duty and received an honorable discharge in 1973 at the rank of sergeant.


Following his discharge from the Air Force, he attended Texas A&M Univer- sity and graduated in 1977 with a Bach- elor of Science degree. He was commis- sioned as a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in the United States Marine Corps in 1978 and served as platoon and company commander before he was deployed


first to Okinawa, Japan with the Bat- talion S-3A, 3rd Force Service Support Group. He served in the Republic of Korea as the assistant operations officer to Combat Service Support Detachment 32 for Exercise Team Spirit 82.


Brigadier General Garza held a series of staff and command positions between 1983 and 1990 before he was deployed in support of Operation Desert Shield. Between 1991 and 1999, he served in Panama as the aide de camp to the commander in chief, United States Southern Command, as counter-drug planner and officer in charge, Joint Op- erations Center and Crisis Action Center in Fort Bliss, Tx., and as the battalion commander, 3d Light Armored Recon- naissance Battalion, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, 29 Palms, Ca.


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