The 1SR D-Train March Conference Awards Luncheon proves to be quite the event for the membership of Flotilla 12-07. The Flotilla, under the leadership of Albin J. Cofone, Flotilla Commander of Air Station Republic, received for the membership, the Coast Guard Team Commendation Ribbon. Members of Flotilla 12-07 have engaged in various acts of benevolence as they supported a local East Farmingdale soup kitchen that fell victim to an Arson a week before Thanksgiving. Flotilla Members organized a food drive at the Republic Airport as they broadcasted an ALCOAST message to all District Aviators flying in for the Ice Patrol Workshop being held at their meeting space. Together, a total of 8 large boxes of food stuffs were collected and delivered to the Soup Kitchen.
Members also organized a monetary collection of several hundred dollars to assist the American Red Cross in their relief efforts in Haiti, ran a blood drive with the assistance of New York Blood Center and sponsored a shoe drive for "Soles for Souls". This organization collects lightly worn foot ware and distributes same to needy persons around the world.
This Flotilla's ability and willingness to think and act locally and globally in rendering assistance to those in need has demonstrated the very tenets of the US Coast Guard in that they acted "So Others May Live!"
In doing so, they have spread the good name and reputation of the United States Coast Guard, her Auxiliary and the United States! To Flotilla 12-07, Bravo Zulu!!
L-R Albin J. Cofone FC 12-07, BM1 Krotz of Sector New York at the 2012 District Conference
(photo by William Goess, Flot. 12-07, Article by David G. Porter, DCDR D12)