MEDIA ADVISORY: Father to award Silver Lifesaving Medal to daughter in Mobile Monday

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 07/17/2020 08:00 AM EDT

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MEDIA ADVISORY: Father to award Silver Lifesaving Medal to daughter in Mobile Monday

NEW ORLEANS — The Silver Lifesaving Medal will be presented to a Coast Guard member during a ceremony Monday in Mobile, Alabama.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Victoria Vanderhaden, a boatswain's mate at Coast Guard Sector Mobile, will receive the medal for saving two swimmers off the coast of Long Island Sound, New York, in 2018.

Presenting the medal will be her father, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Jason M. Vanderhaden, the senior-most enlisted member in the Coast Guard.

The Silver Lifesaving Medal is awarded to any member of the Coast Guard who rescues, or endeavors to rescue any other person from drowning, shipwreck, or other peril of the water in waters within the United States or subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

WHO: Petty Officer 2nd Class Victoria Vanderhaden will be recognized during an awards ceremony

WHAT: The Silver Lifesaving Medal will be presented

WHEN: 9 a.m., Monday, July 20, 2020

WHERE: Fort Whiting Reception Hall, 1630 South Broad Street, Mobile, AL

The ceremony is closed to the public, but media are invited to attend. Media planning to attend should RSVP no later than 5 p.m. Friday to Ensign Trevor Vallet at Coast Guard Sector Mobile by phone: (251) 545-2662 or e-mail: Trevor.J.Vallet@uscg.mil.

Please note that the event will abide by CDC guidelines that call for masks to be worn by attendees, as well as social distancing.

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