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09 AUG 22
FM: CHDIRAUX
TO: ALAUX
ALAUX 029/22
Subj: 2021 AUXILIARIST OF THE YEAR
Commodore Douglas S. Cream of the Ninth District - Eastern Region (D9-ER), Flotilla 33 of Buffalo, NY is the 2021 Auxiliarist of the Year. The following ALCOAST recently announced his selection. Congratulations to Commodore Cream! Bravo Zulu!
Respectfully,
Captain Troy P. Glendye
Chief Director of Auxiliary (CG-BSX)
R 091313Z AUG 22 MID600052176766U
FM COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC
TO ALCOAST
BT
UNCLASS
ALCOAST 294/22
SSIC 16790
SUBJ: 2021 AUXILIARIST OF THE YEAR
- I am pleased to announce the selection of Commodore Douglas S. Cream of Ninth District-Eastern Region (D9-ER), Flotilla 33 in Buffalo, New York as the 2021 Auxiliarist of the Year.
- Commodore Cream enrolled in the Auxiliary in May 2002. He immediately integrated into the organization by holding many flotilla, division, district, and national leadership positions including Vice Flotilla Commander, Division Staff Officer for Operations, District Staff Officer for Legal Parliamentarian, and Assistant National Commodore Chief Counsel. During the past year, Commodore Cream provided invaluable legal consultation and advice to Auxiliary leadership and the Coast Guard's Staff Judge Advocate on a remarkably diverse range of topics. A consummate shipmate, he leveraged his extensive legal expertise to assist the Mariner Credential Fraud Task Force (MCF-TF). Applying crucial insight and tenacious determination, he incisively analyzed volumes of complex jurisdictional reviews and prepared comprehensive briefs to Coast Guard leadership on nuanced legal decisions. His contributions were instrumental to the Task Force's successful achievement of unprecedented enforcement goals and enhanced deterrence of future mariner credential fraud. He supervised the 16 Auxiliary District Staff Officer Legal Parliamentarians, ensuring they provided all Auxiliary regions with timely and accurate legal counsel. Exercising utmost devotion to duty, he sustained extensive activity as an Auxiliary Qualification Examiner, Coxswain, Team Coordination Training Facilitator, Station Buffalo Auxiliary Unit Coordinator, and Sector Buffalo's Auxiliary Sector Coordinator.
- Commodore Cream was also an active member of his local community. Demonstrating a gracious and generous nature, he ensured his fellow Auxiliarists were fully accommodated by regularly providing housing for Auxiliary shipmates when visiting the D9-Eastern Region for training and mission support. He also served as an ardent champion and contributor to the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance program, and provided extensive pro bono legal counsel to many Coast Guard personnel.
- I heartily applaud Commodore Cream's dedication to the Coast Guard Auxiliary's success during the last year and for his numerous and substantial contributions to the Coast Guard. He will be formally recognized as the 2021 Auxiliarist of the Year at the Auxiliary National Conference in Orlando, FL on August 20, 2022.
- POC: LT Christopher Booth, COMDT (CG-BSX-1), at Christopher.W.Booth@uscg.mil.
- RDML Wayne Arguin, Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy (CG-5P), sends.
- Internet release is authorized.
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