U.S. Coast Guard
Air Station Sacramento
McClellan,
CA 95652
Photo courtesy of Pat Egan
- Hammer Inc.
Allied Organizations wishes to express
their gratitude to CDR Douglas W. Stephan, Executive
Officer - U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento and
Public Affairs Officer, LTJG Randall Black for their
advancing the mission of of 911 Memorial event.
To McClellan Air Station members Bobbie
Cole and Michael Woodrum, thank you for your service as
well and your able assistance to the Sgt. Marfill family.
Allied Organizations wishes to extend a special Thank You to
Captain Heintz!
Captain Heintz is
originally from Akron, Ohio. He entered the Coast Guard
Academy in 1976 and was commissioned in 1980. He was
initially assigned as a Deck Watch Officer aboard the CGC
Conifer, a buoy tender, home ported in Atlantic Beach,
North Carolina. He was subsequently selected for U.S.
Naval Flight Training and was reassigned to Pensacola,
Florida in September of 1981. He completed flight
training in October 1982 and was assigned to Coast Guard
Air Station Brooklyn. While assigned to Air Station
Brooklyn, he flew the HH-52A Sea Guard and the HH-65A
Dolphin helicopters.
Captain Heintz
was selected for Aviation Maintenance Officer Training in
1985. Upon designation as a Maintenance Officer in June
1987, he was reassigned to Coast Guard Air Station Detroit
as the Aeronautical Engineering Officer. He was largely
responsible for managing Air Station Detroit's transition
from operating the HH-52A to the HH-65A in 1989. In 1990,
Captain Heintz was selected to attend post-graduate
training at the University of Michigan. He completed
Master's Degree programs in Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering in July of 1992 and was subsequently assigned
as the Head of HH-65 Technical Services at the Coast
Guard's Aircraft Repair and Supply Center in Elizabeth
City, North Carolina. His technical team was responsible
for a number of significant improvements to the HH-65A
including the N2 conversion, dramatic wiring improvements
and the plan to eliminate kapton wiring from the HH-65A
altogether.
In 1996, Captain
Heintz was assigned as the Aeronautical Engineering
Officer at Air Station New Orleans. He was responsible
for a number of improvements in the performance of the
HH-65A Prime Unit and also personally directed the
underwater salvage of HH-65A CG 6549 from depth of 8500
feet under the Pacific Ocean. He was assigned as
Executive Officer at Air Station New Orleans from
1998-2000 and subsequently commanded Air Station San
Francisco from 2000-2002. Captain Heintz was assigned to
the Pacific Area staff as Chief of the Operations
Oversight Branch from 2002-2005. He is joined in his
current assignment as Commanding Officer of Air Station
Sacramento by his wife Mary, son Paul and daughter Meghan.
