AUXILIARY IN ACTION
15-02 Auxiliarist Miller awarded the Coast Guard Auxiliary Achievement Medal
February 2006

Citation to Accompany the award of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Achievement Medal to Auxiliarist Dawn Miller, Staff Officer, Division Fifteen, United States Coast Guard: Auxiliarist MILLER is cited for outstanding achievement as Sector Baltimore Trident Coordinator from June 2004 to June 2005. Serving as the first Auxiliary Coordinator for this program, Auxiliarist MILLER was essential to the program’s success during and after her tenure. Due to her efforts, Auxiliarists received hundreds of hours of training from active duty personnel in harbor safety and security, pollution investigation, Incident Command System, weapons of mass destruction, first responder awareness and safety, and container inspections.

Auxiliarist MILLER optimized communications between the Auxiliary and active duty at Sector Baltimore, providing frequent, detailed reports on the status of program qualifications, personnel availability, and training initiatives. By facilitating monthly meetings with Sector Baltimore staff and Auxiliary leadership, she drove the Trident training effort and pioneered new uses of the Auxiliary in active duty missions.

As Auxiliary Trident Coordinator, she communicated exhaustively with dozens of Auxiliarists, ensuring Sector Baltimore’s program balanced mission requirements with a rigorous training schedule that mirrored the Auxiliary approach to operational qualifications. Throughout her term, eight Auxiliary members were qualified as Assistant Harbor Safety Officers, nine members attended Container Inspection Training, and 33 attended Pollution Investigator training. Auxiliarist MILLER implemented Qualification Facilitators and Program Coordinators for each major qualification, providing significant mentoring opportunities and skillfully sharing ownership of Sector Baltimore’s Trident Program.

Additionally, she created an innovative tracking program for Auxiliary Trident training, enabling active duty and Auxiliary leadership to monitor and finely hone the direction of the program. The partnership and enthusiasm exhibited by Auxiliarist MILLER was a model for cooperation between active duty and Auxiliary, and was invaluable to the success of the Trident Program in Baltimore. Auxiliarist MILLER’s diligence, perseverance and devotion to duty are most heartily commended and are in keeping with the highest tradition of the United States Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Auxiliary.