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Coast Guard Aviation Association

The Victor Roulund Rescue Swimmer Meritorious Achievement Award

The Victor Roulund Meritorious On-Scene Performance Award recognizes quick-thinking individuals within U.S. Coast Guard Aviation, who have taken risks and improvised in extraordinary circumstances, with the intent to save lives.

Award Recipients

2019

CDR Ken Coffland, CG Aviator 1600 , CDR Hugh O’Doherty, CG Aviator 1732 , CAPT Dana Goward, CG Aviator 1825 , LCDR Dick Wright, CG Aviator 1914

2017

ASTCM John F. Hall, USCG , ASTCM Scott Dyer, USCG (Ret.) , AST1 Richard “Rick” McElrath, USCG (Ret.)

2016

ASTCM Thomas “Buck” Beaudry, USCG (AIRSTA Miami), ASMCM Larry Farmer, USCG (Ret.) , ASTCM Joseph “Butch” Flythe, USCG (Ret.) , ASMCM Darell M. Gelakoska, USCG (Ret.)

2015

ASTCM Thomas “Buck” Beaudry, USCG (AIRSTA Miami), ASMCM Larry Farmer, USCG (Ret.) , ASTCM Joseph “Butch” Flythe, USCG (Ret.), ASMCM Darell M. Gelakoska, USCG (Ret.)