Coast Guard Cutter Sockeye change of command

SAN FRANCISCO – Master Chief Petty Officer Gregory Teagle relieved Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Andrieu as Officer in Charge of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sockeye during a change of command ceremony yesterday at 2:30 p.m. at Station Bodega Bay, Calif.

Master Chief Petty Officer Andrieu retired after 30 years of active duty service in the Coast Guard.

Master Chief Petty Officer Teagle arrived in Bodega Bay from his previous tour as the Officer in Charge of the Aids to Navigation Team in Duluth, Minn.

CGC Sockeye is an 87-foot patrol boat, whose mission areas include: search and rescue, law enforcement, maritime homeland security, and marine environmental protection. The Sockeye’s area of responsibility stretches from Mendocino County to Pt. Sur and 200 nautical miles offshore, including the San Francisco Bay and the Port of Oakland.

The change of command ceremony is a formal, time-honored ceremony conducted before the assembled officers and enlisted persons of a command that formally restates the continuing authority of that command. The change of command is a transfer of total responsibility and authority from one individual to another.

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