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Rear
Admiral Sirois retired on
1 July 2006
after 36 years of service. He is employed in the local
Washington
,
DC
area.
RADM
Sirois was assigned as the Assistant Commandant for Operations in
June 2004, reporting from his previous assignment as Director of
Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South,
Key West
,
Florida
. His responsibilities
included management oversight of a wide range of Coast Guard
programs essential to public safety and national and homeland
security. They included:
Maritime Safety, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, and National
Defense. Maritime Safety
programs include all federal aids to navigation, search and rescue,
recreational boating safety, bridge administration, and domestic and
international icebreaking. Law
Enforcement and Homeland Security encompasses illegal drug and
migrant smuggling, living marine resource protection, counter
terrorism, and enforcement of all federal laws on U. S. navigable
waters. The National
Defense mission required orchestrating the activity of Coast Guard
forces to support Department of Defense plans and goals by providing
unique and non-redundant capabilities to Combatant Commanders.
He also directed the allocation and distribution of Coast
Guard forces (aircraft, vessels, shore facilities and operational
command infrastructure) for operational employment. RADM Sirois also
was responsible for advocacy and program oversight of the U.S. Coast
Guard Auxiliary.
At
JIATF South, RADM Sirois led a joint, interagency, and international
team representing 11 countries that conducted counter narco-trafficking
operations. His area of
operations spanned 42 million square miles that included 30
countries and 11 territories from
Mexico
to
Argentina
and across the
Caribbean
. Under his direction,
JIATF South disrupted over 300 metric tons of cocaine, assisted in
the arrest of 398 persons and the seizure or destruction of 127
aircraft or vessels. He
oversaw the resumption of the Air Bridge Denial Program in
Colombia
and the strengthening of ties to federal Law Enforcement agencies
and International partners.
Prior
to JIATF South, Admiral Sirois served as Director of Reserve and
Training at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in
Washington
,
DC
. He was also a member
of the DoD Reserve Forces Policy Board, the Board of Trustees of the
Coast
Guard
Academy
, Chairman of the Commandant’s Leadership Advisory Council, and
coordinated the Commandant’s Diversity Advisory Council.
His first flag officer assignment was as Staff Director of
the President’s Interagency Task Force on Roles and Missions of
the U. S. Coast Guard.
Admiral
Sirois’ operational career includes service as Chief of Staff to
Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area/Maritime Defense Zone Pacific,
Alameda
,
California
, and Chief of Operations and Director, Coast Guard Auxiliary 14th
Coast Guard District,
Honolulu
,
Hawaii
. His six afloat
assignments include commands of four Coast Guard Cutters.
Staff
assignments include Deputy Director, International Affairs, Office
of the Commandant; Coast Guard Liaison to the Chief of Naval
Operations, The Pentagon; Afloat Assignment Officer in the Officer
Personnel Division, CG Headquarters; and Assistant Professor of
Physics at the Coast Guard Academy.
Admiral
Sirois earned a BS in Marine Science from the U.S. Coast Guard
Academy, an MA in Liberal Studies from
Wesleyan
University
, an MS in Management from Rennsaelear Polytechnic Institute, and an
MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval
War College.
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