Coast Guard commander right at home in Sabino Arizona
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In his high-profile professional life, Palo Verde High School graduate Thad Allen travels with bodyguards and hobnobs with the president. But when he comes home to Tucson, the commandant of the United States Coast Guard is a regular guy who hikes Sabino Canyon and chows down on steak fingers at Lucky Wishbone. "I don't really think of myself as famous. I'm just a guy who joined the Coast Guard and stuck around," said Allen, 57, who helped revive faltering emergency response efforts after Hurricane Katrina last year. Before that, he oversaw evacuation efforts in the New York City harbor on...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:18:41 AM







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