AUXPA PA/PB Resources - About Public Affairs and Publications - U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Public Affairs

The Correspondents Corps is a group of skilled journalists scattered throughout the Auxiliary who use their skills to share the activities, mission and programs of the Coast Guard Auxiliary with the public news media and through the public news media to the American people and particularly the boating public. They work under the direction of the Public Affairs External Communications Division Chief and his/her Branch Chiefs, just as media correspondents work in news bureaus of publications, stations and networks. They are available to all Auxiliary Divisions for projects by contacting Rob Westcott, Chief External Communications Division (DVC-AX) at media@auxpa.org or phone (386) 717-8437.

Tom Hayden
LtCol Tom Hayden, USMC (Ret), has over 35 years of service, which included the Department of State (USAID), the Marine Corps, and the Department of Defense. His Marine Corps assignments included command of two separate battalions; Branch Head, HQMC, Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC); Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for SO/LIC; and, Senior Program Analysts at HQMC with the Joint Staff and DoD in the Pentagon. He served in Vietnam, 1967-1969, with MACV/CORDS and the CIA. Returning to the Marine Corps, 1975-1996, his many staff and command assignments included combat tours in Central America, the Gulf War, Somalia, and Colombia. In the Gulf War he commanded all the Marine Corps rear area security & counter-terrorist units, which included Port Security & Harbor Defense Group-2 (Coast Guard Port Security Unit-301, MIUWU-103, and EOD Mobile Unit-9). He left the Pentagon last July 2004. He has an MBA (Pepperdine University) and a MA in International Relations (University of Southern California). He has written two books and is working on a third. He is a columnist for www.military.com and www.uscav.com.

Joesph P. Cirone