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.

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.