MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Coast Guard to commission new unit in Memphis

 

Media Advisory

U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Heartland Contact: 8th District Public Affairs Office: 504-671-2020 After Hours: 504-330-3087 Eighth District online newsroom

Coast Guard to commission new unit in Memphis

WHO: Capt. Ryan Rhodes, Sector Lower Mississippi River commander, Cmdr. Erick Neussl, Sector Lower Mississippi River deputy commander, Lt. Jamal Scarlett, Sector Upper Mississippi River chaplain, Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Rollins, Station Memphis prospective officer-in-charge.

WHAT: Commissioning ceremony for Coast Guard Station Memphis 

WHERE: FedEx Event Center, 415 Great View Drive East, Cordova, TN 38018 (Suite 103)

WHEN: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021 (Media should arrive no later than 9:30 a.m.)

Editor’s Note: Media planning to attend needs to R.S.V.P. by Aug. 9, 2021, at 6 p.m., by contacting Petty Officer 3rd Class Carlos Galarza at 504-330-3087 or emailing uscoastguardheartland@gmail.com.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Coast Guard is scheduled Tuesday to commission its newest station, Coast Guard Station Memphis, during a ceremony at the FedEx Event Center in Cordova, Tennessee.

The station is responsible for search and rescue, recreational boating safety, ports, waterways, flood response, and coastal security. The station's area of responsibility ranges from mile marker 720 to mile marker 750 on the Mississippi River, numerous lakes in Arkansas, and is deployable to the Gulf of Mexico for hurricane flood response. The station is equipped with two 29-Foot Response Boat-Small II and three shallow-water response boats. 

Station Memphis is the second of five new Coast Guard stations to be commissioned in the Coast Guard 8^th District’s Western Rivers Sectors.

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