USCGC Munro (WMSL 755)

COMMAND

COMMANDING OFFICER

Captain Jim O'Mara

Captain Jim O’Mara reported as the Eleventh Coast Guard District Chief of Enforcement in July 2022. Here he oversaw enforcement missions ranging from the Oregon-California border, down south of the Galapagos for counter narcotics, migrant interdiction, and illegal unregulated, unreported fishing. Prior to District 11, he served as Pacific Area Chief of Cutter Forces supporting major cutter operations throughout the Indo-Pacific, Arctic and Antarctica.

CAPT O’Mara has served in several operational command positions conducting search and rescue, counter‐narcotics, migrant interdiction, homeland security, defense operations, and living marine resource protection programs ranging from the Arctic to the equator, from Puerto Rico to the US Virgin Islands, and throughout the northern Arabian Gulf. He has over twelve years of sea time, having served as commanding officer of three patrol boats, a medium endurance cutter, operations officer aboard a National Security Cutter.

His policy and staff experience includes assignments as National Security Affairs Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, program analyst in the Office of Performance Management at Coast Guard Headquarters, a maritime advisor deployed in Saudi Arabia to support foreign military sales, and Company Officer at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

A native of California, he earned his military commission and bachelor of science in government from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He holds a master of public administration degree from George Washington University, master of arts in national security studies from the Naval War College, and a master of science in business continuity management from Norwich University. His mother and father, Kaye and Jim raised him in Norco, CA; and Jim recently married his amazing wife Laura, with their two girls Hannah and Leah.

EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Commander Daniel M. Wiltshire

CDR Wiltshire currently serves as the Executive Officer of CGC MUNRO (WMSL 755) based in Alameda, CA.

CDR Wiltshire is a Permanent Cutterman. He served as Commanding Officer of CGC ADAK (WPB 1333), forward-deployed to the Arabian Gulf. As part of the USCG/USN exchange program, CDR Wiltshire served as Navigator and Non-Compliant Boarding Officer on the guided missile cruiser USS PRINCETON (CG 59) in San Diego, CA, where he earned the U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer pin and led PRINCETON’s boarding team during the rescue of hostages held by Somali pirates. His first afloat tour was as a Deck Watch Officer on CGC SENECA (WMEC 906) in Boston, MA.

Ashore, CDR Wiltshire most recently served as the Chief of Maritime Law in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, FL. He previously served as Senior Military Justice Counsel in the Office of Military Justice at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. CDR Wiltshire also served in the Professional Maritime Studies Branch of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, where he taught navigation, designed an expanded celestial navigation curriculum, and served as a summer Officer of the Deck on USCG Barque EAGLE (WIX 327). CDR Wiltshire has also deployed to Cote d’Ivoire and Benin in support of the African Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership.

CDR Wiltshire graduated from Tulane University with a B.A. in History and commissioned through Officer Candidate School. He graduated from the U.S. Naval War College with a M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies (with distinction), earning the Director’s Award for Academic Excellence. He earned his Juris Doctorate at American University Washington College of Law (WCL), where he served as Executive Editor of WCL’s National Security Law Brief.

CDR Wiltshire’s awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Coast Guard Commendation Medal (two awards), Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Commandant’s Letter of Commendation, and the Global War of Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (two awards). He also earned the President’s Gold Volunteer Service Award for service as a civilian EMT during 40 days of rescue and recovery operations in response to Hurricane Katrina.

CDR Wiltshire has published on a number of naval warfare and national security law topics. His articles “Distribute Lethality to the Cutters” and “Send in the Coast Guard. . . with the Marines!” won second prize in the U.S. Naval Institute’s Coast Guard Essay contest in 2018 and 2020 respectively.

Command Senior Enlisted Leader

Chief Machinery Technician Scott C. Parsons