Clearwater Coast Guard Unit Wins DoD Family Readiness Award

Posted Feb 17, 2012 by Howard Altman

Updated Feb 17, 2012 at 10:29 PM

Congrats to Coast Guard Port Security Unit 307.

The Clearwater-based unit was presented the 2011 Reserve Family Readiness Award by the Department of Defense in a ceremony at the Pentagon today.

According to a PSU 307 Media Release:

The RFRA is presented to the top unit in each of the reserve components of the armed forces that demonstrate outstanding family readiness while maintaining superior mission readiness.

“PSU 307 is honored to be receiving this prestigious award,” said Cmdr. Andrew Wallace, PSU 307’s commanding officer. “Our families’ strong support through our recent deployment to the Middle East ensured that all of our members in the field could safely and successfully complete the mission.”

During their recent deployment in of support U.S. Central Command, PSU 307 actively educated unit members and their families about resources available to them. This included a network of support to assist families in emergency situations and to maintain regular contact with families of deployed members. Due to the extensive dispersion of unit members, the unit Ombudsman and the Coast Guard Yellow Ribbon staff traveled extensively to where unit families were and where the need was greatest to help alleviate
deployment stress and anxiety.