President Biden Withdraws List of 80 Coast Guard Officers up for Promotion to Captain (O-6), Then Replaces With List of 78 Officers. Two Missing Officers are Millard and Courtade.
New York, NY
By: MLAA
On November 1, 2023 President Joe Biden nominated 80 Coast Guard officers serving as Commanders (O-5) for promotion to Captain (O-6).
As MLAA previously reported, on April 8, 2024, following a scathing letter sent to embattled Coast Guard leader Linda Fagan by Senator Ted Cruz regarding Cruz’s ongoing investigation into the Operation Fouled Anchor coverups, President Biden withdrew his nomination of the list of 80 Coast Guard leaders from the Senate confirmation process.
President Biden’s notice of withdrawal, which was posted to the Congressional Record, reads:
WITHDRAWALS
Executive Message transmitted by the President to the Senate on April 8, 2024 withdrawing from further Senate consideration the following nominations:
COAST GUARD NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH JENNIFER J. ANDREW AND ENDING WITH CHRISTOPHER J. YOUNG, WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE SENT TO THE SENATE ON NOVEMBER 1, 2023.
Prior to withdrawing the list of 80 Coast Guard officers from consideration for promotion to O-6, on March 14, 2024, President Biden submitted a 2nd, smaller list of 78 officers up for promotion to 0-6 to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for confirmation.
The two lists are identical with the exception of two Coast Guard officers whose names were removed from the promotion list by President Biden.
The two officers are:
Jeremy A. Courtade
Jesse M. Millard
MLAA is continuing to investigate why President Biden and Admiral Linda Fagan withdrew the nomination of Commanders Courtade and Millard from consideration for promotion to Captain, and what connection, if any, the withdrawals may have to the ongoing Operation Fouled Anchor investigations.