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Biography: DC-B
Department Chief John Potts (email) is very active in his flotilla, serving as flotilla commander for 2004-2005. He is also the flotilla’s FSO-CM and FSO-PE for an active PE program. He developed his flotilla’s new Emergency Response Plan. John also stands communications watches at Coast Guard Station Annapolis. He also has a mobile radio opfac.
John retired as a lieutenant commander from the Coast Guard in the early 1980’s with a total of 21 and a half years active duty. He began as a bos’n mate coxswain of an old 40 footer in the late 1950’s. He then went to radioman school and soon reached the rank of First Class Radioman when he applied to attend officer candidate school. He got his commission in 1965. His first assignment as Ensign was as officer-in-charge of the same radioman school from which he had graduated nearly 3 years earlier. Some of his old instructors were still on staff. During his Coast Guard career, John served six tours of duty on five different 180-foot buoy tenders beginning with the rank of seaman apprentice up to lieutenant commander. He was executive officer on two of the tenders and commanding officer of his last tender. His last duty in the Coast Guard was in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands where he served as Recreational Boating Safety Specialist and the on scene DIRAUX representative in that area.
After retirement from the Coast Guard, John worked for nearly four years at the merchant marine’s Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in southern Maryland as Water Survival Instructor; he developed new hands-on life-raft and in water survival training along with a new comprehensive training manual.
After working for five years as a Maryland State Addictions Counselor, John transferred to Maryland’s Division of Parole and Probation’s Drinking Driving Monitor Program as a regional supervisor. He retired from the State in 2000. Since then he has enjoyed sailing on his 25’ Bayfield and is a clay artist, selling his art objects in the Annapolis, Maryland area. John is married to Sandee and they have six grown children and eleven grandchildren.
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