Doug Fears
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| Born | Maryland, USA | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | United States Coast Guard Academy, Naval War College, Kennedy School of Government | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Center for Strategic and International Studies/Board and Staff | |||||||||||||
United States Coast Guard officer working on drug interdiction.
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Douglas Margrave Fears[1] is a United States Coast Guard rear admiral currently serving as Director of Joint Interagency Task Force South. He was previously Assistant Commandant for Response Policy.[2] Fears was the Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump until July 12, 2019.[3]
Early life and education
Fears was born in Maryland[4] and enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1982, receiving an appointment to the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1985. He was commissioned as an ensign in 1989[5] after earning a Bachelor of Science in government from the Coast Guard Academy. He later received a master of arts in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and a master of public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[6]
Career
Fears has been the captain of three vessels, including the USCGC Diligence[4] and the USCGC Hamilton, a National Security cutter,[7] and was on five others. He has also been in charge of the Coast Guard's Office of Law Enforcement, has been a program reviewer in the Coast Guard headquarters, has been a liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives, and has been chief of staff to the commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command.[8] He currently holds the rank of rear admiral (lower half) in the Coast Guard.[8]
Additionally, Fears was a Coast Guard Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2009 to 2010 and a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI on Foreign Politics, International Relations, and the National Interest.[8]
In addition to his Coast Guard career, Fears has served in the administration of President Donald Trump as a special assistant to the President, as director for Central America and the Caribbean on the National Security Council staff,[8] as senior director for resilience policy for the National Security Council, and as Homeland Security Advisor.[9]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180604040032/http://www.stardem.com/obituaries/obituaries-oct/article_ffd3db9b-6359-57ed-b7da-15fba2e40cc9.html
- ↑ https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Response-Policy-CG-5R/CG-5R-Command-Philosophy/Rear-Admiral-Brown-Biography/
- ↑ Trump Homeland Security Adviser to Leave Soon, Sources Say
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20180604035817/http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20070911/diligence-leader-born-to-life-at-sea
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180604035935/https://www.congress.gov/nomination/101st-congress/7
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180602172230/http://securitydebrief.com/2018/05/14/bolton-uscg-doug-fears-acting-homeland-security-advisor/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170712130604/https://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/10/28/coast-guard-christens-4th-national-security-cutter.html
- ↑ a b c d https://web.archive.org/web/20180602041753/https://www.csis.org/news/congratulations-three-former-csis-coast-guard-fellows
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180602040928/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/01/trump-homeland-security-adviser-doug-fears-617963
