Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

Air Station Sacramento Command

Captain Bradford E. Apitz, Commanding Officer

Captain Bradford Apitz is a 1993 graduate of Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he received a Bachelor’s of Science in Marine Transportation and a commission in the U.S. Navy’s Merchant Marine Ready Reserve. He sailed aboard commercial vessels with Military Sealift Command for a year before leaving the industry to become a police officer. After serving four years as a certified police officer in southern New Hampshire he was commissioned in 1998 through the Maritime Academy Graduate Program.

Upon graduation from the Direct Commissioned Officer School in Yorktown, VA, Captain Apitz was assigned to Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Miami, as a marine inspector and investigator. In 2000 he was selected for flight training and upon graduation was assigned to Air Station Cape Cod as an HU-25 Falcon pilot. His follow-on aviation assignments included Chief of Naval Aviation Training (VT-31) as an instructor pilot, Air Station Kodiak, Alaska as a duty C-130 pilot, Operations Officer, and as Air Station Kodiak’s Executive Officer.

Captain Apitz most recently completed a three-year assignment at Coast Guard Headquarters as the Chief for the Office of Requirements and Analysis (CG-771), where he oversaw the development and management of a standardized, defendable and repeatable process to generate and maintain Coast Guard capability (operational) requirements in support of follow-on acquisition activities. Follow on assignments were to the Coast Guard’s Assistant Commandant for Acquisition (CG-9) managing the 913-member acquisition, construction, and improvement personnel account in support of $1.4B in major acquisition programs, in Washington, D.C. Coast Guard Liaison Officer to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, and Acquisition). Captain Apitz also served as Politico-Military Affairs Officer (Western Hemisphere), Strategy, Plans, and Policy Directorate (J5), Joint Chiefs of Staff, at The Pentagon, where he was tasked with enabling the Chairman to provide best military advice to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council on maritime security and Arctic policy.

Captain Apitz earned a Master of Arts degree in Global Leadership, with a certificate in Project Management, from the University of San Diego in 2005. His personal awards include a Defense Meritorious Service Medal, three Meritorious Service Medals, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, two Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and two Achievement Medals.

Captain Apitz’s free time is spent with his lovely wife Tracy, a Registered Nurse, and their Labrador Retrievers “Hercules” and “Falcon.” Captain Apitz and his wife love to travel and spend quality time with their family: Shelby, her husband Roman, and daughter Paige; Olivia, and her fiancé, Gus; Lola; and Brooke.

Commander Justin Hunt, Executive Officer

CDR Hunt assumed the duties of Executive Officer for Air Station Sacramento, CA in May 2024. Before that, he was Air Station Sacramento’s Engineering Officer for two years.

His most recent assignment was as the U.S. Coast Guard Exchange Officer to the Royal Australian Air Force, Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, working at the Defence Science Technology Group to evaluate the structure life limits of the C-27J aircraft and build relationships between the U.S. Government and other partner nations.

Prior to the exchange tour, he served at CG Headquarters in the Officer of Aeronautical Engineering (CG-41) as the HC-144 Systems Manager where he oversaw the airworthiness of the Ocean Sentries and helped to develop and implement the Coast Guards Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) capability for the Coast Guard Fleet.

Aviation assignments include Aviation Training Center Mobile, AL and Group/Air Station Port Angeles, WA, where he flew the H-65B/C Dolphine as an Aircraft Commander and AUF Mission Commander. CDR Hunt has accrued more than 3,000 total flight hours and attained his Federal Aviation Administration Airline Transport Pilot rating.

CDR Hunt is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering with a Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering. He also has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science of Chemistry from the University of California at San Diego. His personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (2), the Coast Guard Commendation Medal (2), the Coast Guard Achievement Medal and a Letter of Commendation. He is married to Jessica Hunt of Spokane, WA, and they have one middle school aged son, Cayden.

Jeffrey A. Jones, Command Master Chief

Master Chief Jones assumed the duties of the Command Master Chief for Air Station Sacramento, CA in June 2022. He is responsible for serving as the Senior Enlisted Leader for the command. His other duties include management and oversight of personnel policies, good order and discipline, incentive programs, and charge for the general welfare of the personnel assigned to the unit. He supports the command’s mission, vision, and enlisted utilization.

He is a native of Los Altos Hills, CA and enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in February of 1997. His previous assignments include: USCGC DOUGLAS MUNRO, Air Station San Francisco, Air Station Houston, Air Station New Orleans. He served a second tour at Air Station San Francisco, and then Air Station Los Angeles, which was decommissioned in 2016. He was stationed at the Asset Project Office during the acquisition of the fleet’s newest aircraft, the HC-27J. His prior assignment was as the Leading Chief at Sector Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon.

For fourteen years, he was aircrew qualified on the MH-65 Dolphin helicopter advancing to a Flight Mechanic Instructor. Master Chief flew operational missions in the Pacific, Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico, accruing over 1,200 flight hours.

Master Chief Jones military awards include an Air Medal, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals, four Coast Guard Achievement Medals, eight Good Conduct Medals, and over ten unit and team awards. He has earned the Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon, Aircrew insignia and a Collateral Duty Senior Enlisted Leader insignia (Unit Silver Badge).

He is a proud graduate of Avionics Technician AVT A-school, Class 180 of the Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Academy, and the Senior Enlisted Leadership Course, Class 63. Master Chief is married to the former Alicia Morrison of Anaheim, CA. They have two wonderful children, a daughter Alexis and a son Ransom.