Coast Guard Station Kenosha Wins National Award
U. S. Coast Guard
February 08, 2005
KENOSHA, Wisc. - The crew of Coast Guard Station Kenosha is the winners of the prestigious Kimball Award for exceptional search and rescue proficiency and boat readiness for stations with 41-foot rescue boats.
Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Hanson the executive officer of group Milwaukee will be presenting the award to the crew of Station Kenosha Wednesday morning at 9 a.m.
The award is named after Sumner I. Kimball who founded the U.S. Life Saving Service, the forerunner for the Coast Guard, in 1878. The Kimball Award was established in 2001 as a way to recognize a unit's achievement of high operational readiness.
"I could not be any more proud of my crew," said Chief Petty Officer Jim Ellison, officer-in-charge. "This award simply tells others what I've known all along, that the crew at Station Kenosha is among the Coast Guard's elite."
During the three-day assessment from the Yorktown, Virginia-based standardization team, Station Kenosha successfully completed a series of rigorous boat crew evaluations. They received perfect scores for underway search and rescue drills. They also scored among the top Coast Guard units on the written exam. Finally, the material and engineering condition of the station's rescue boat was scrutinized and found to be exemplary.
Stations are evaluated every two years. As the Kimball Award was designed to recognize the top 10 percent of all Coast Guard search and rescue stations, this honor is a direct reflection of the outstanding leadership and dedication of the crew at Coast Guard Station Kenosha.
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