Oakland Park, Fla., Native Selected for Station New York Sailor of the Quarter

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Seaman Ryan Rose, a native of Oakland Park, Fla., was selected as Coast Guard Station New York’s Sailor of the Quarter for Oct. 1, 2011 through Dec. 31^st, 2011.

Station New York’s Sailor of the Quarter Program is designed to recognize exemplary performance. A number of outstanding personnel at the unit qualify and are nominated for this recognition, but the honor of Sailor of the Quarter is bestowed to only one nominee. Final selection of the Sailor of the Quarter is based on the member’s ability to demonstrate exceptional performance in the areas of adherence to the Coast Guard’s Core Values and embodiment of the Coast Guard Ethos, leadership, specialty and technical knowledge, initiative, responsibility, teamwork and community/shipmate support.

Coast Guard Station New York is the largest and busiest coastal search and rescue small boat station in the Coast Guard. During an average busy month, unit personnel may complete more than 30 search and rescue cases, conduct hundreds of vessel boardings, as well as security boardings of large merchant vessels entering the Port of New York and New Jersey. During fiscal year 2011, Station New York:

- Prosecuted 125 search and rescue cases

- Conducted nearly 400 vessel boardings, 100 of which were high-interest vessels

- Conducted more than 1,000 escorts of high-capacity passenger vessels

- Conducted more than 100 security zone enforcement activities

- Spent nearly 5,900 total hours underway – of those hours, 3,600 were dedicated to Ports, Waterways & Coastal Security (PWCS).

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