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Top honors go to local Coast Guard officer

Published 1:30 am Friday, March 10, 2017

By Herald Staff

Top honors go to local Coast Guard officer
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Top honors go to local Coast Guard officer
Rear Adm. Mark Butt, commander of the Coast Guard 13th District, shakes hands with Petty Officer 1st Class Nicole Cimino, a reserve gunner’s mate assigned to the Coast Guard Port Security Unit 313 in Everett, after she was announced as the Reserve Enlisted Person of the Year at a ceremony held March 3, 2017 at Coast Guard Base Seattle. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Office 3rd Class Amanda Norcross)

SEATTLE — Petty Officer 1st Class Nicole Cimino, a reserve gunner’s mate assigned to the Coast Guard Port Security Unit 313 in Everett, was named the Reserve Enlisted Person of the Year at a ceremony held March 3 at Coast Guard Base Seattle.

Cimino is the lead petty officer of the armory at PSU 313 in Everett, where she supervises maintenance, training and range operations, and maintains the weapons qualifications for the 159 members assigned to the unit. Raised in San Jose, California, and now living in Lake Stevens, Cimino entered the Coast Guard in 2000 and joined the reserves in 2004.

Her work as a lead firearms instructor has taken her to remote U.S. Marine Corps ranges.

She saved the Coast Guard over $200,000 in emergency weapon replacement costs, and she also lead an armory team that exceeded expected Navy standards and received honors as the best armory of the joint military units deployed in Guantanamo Bay.

She also is a Level I trauma center nurse.

To submit news for this column, contact reporter Melissa Slager: mslager@heraldnet.com.

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