Officer Roles & Responsibilities

LCDR Chris Cote, USN (ret.):

"I served as a Naval Aviator flying H-46D, H-3H, UC-12B, C-130T and C-9B aircraft on worldwide logistics missions serving in the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea aboard the USS TARAWA (LHA-1) and USS MOUNT HOOD (AE-29).  I deployed to Atsugi, Japan, Bahrain and Sigonella, Italy flying C-130T and C-9B supporting U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Groups in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. 

I serve today as Quartermaster for VFW Post 921 in Snohomish, Washington.

I do this to continue the mission of those that have served before me.  In the words of 1LT Travis Manion, USMC “If not me, then who?”

Picture: I was flying a training mission near Baker Lake, WA while serving as a Search and Rescue (SAR) pilot for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in the fall of 1998.  Cover of Naval Helicopter Association’s Rotor Review magazine