NASSAU, The Bahamas –
Rear Admiral William D. Baumgartner, District Commander of the Seventh
Coast Guard District paid a courtesy call on the Hon. Fred Mitchell,
Minister of Foreign Aff
airs and Immigration and officials of the Ministry
on Wednesday, October 3, 2012.
Both parties discussed issues of mutual interests
and assurances of continued cordial relations between The Bahamas and
the United States.
Rear Admiral Baumgartner serves as Commander of the
Seventh Coast Guard District headquarters in Miami, Florida. He is responsible
for all Coast Guard operations in the Southeast United States and the
Caribbean Basin including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico,
the U.S. Virgin Islands and over 15,000 miles of coastline.
He is a native of Collinsville, IL and a 1980 graduate
of the United States Coast Guard Academy where he received Bachelor
of Science degrees in Marine Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University
of New Orleans and a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard
Law School where he also served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review.
