James S. Gracey

James Steele Gracey (August 24, 1927 – April 5, 2020) was an admiral of the United States Coast Guard who served as the 17th commandant from 1982 to 1986.Between March and May 1953 he attended the LORAN Indoctrination School at Coast Guard Training Station, Groton, Connecticut.He then returned to the Academy for a brief assignment as assistant tactics officer and baseball coach from June to September 1954.[1] As part of his work at Harvard, he spent the summer of 1955 in industry training at Norton Company in Worcester, Massachusetts.The ship serviced aids to navigation along the seacoast of Connecticut and Long Island and broke ice on the Hudson River From September 1962 to April 1965, he served as Comptroller, of the St. Louis-based Second Coast Guard District with collateral duties that included cadet procurement in Kansas and Missouri.
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