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|name= Charles L. Calhoun |birth_date= {{birth date|1925|4|20}} |death_date= {{death date and age|2002|2|24|1925|4|20}} |birth_place= Ocean City, Maryland |death_place= Santa Rosa, California |image= Charles Calhoun coast guard.jpg |alt=Master Chief Petty Officer Charles Calhoun |medal= USCG MCPOCG.png |caption= Charles Calhoun |nickname= |allegiance= United States of America |branch= United States Navy United States Coast Guard |serviceyears= 1943–1946 (Navy) 1946–1973 (Coast Guard) |rank= Torpedoman Second Class (Navy) Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard |battles=World War II Vietnam War |awards= Legion of Merit Commandant's Letter of Commendation Ribbon Combat Action Ribbon Navy Presidential Unit Citation }} Charles Luther Calhoun (April 20, 1925 – February 24, 2002) was an American military enlisted man who served briefly in the United States Navy during World War II and then in the United States Coast Guard where he would rise to become the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard. BiographyCharles Calhoun was born April 20, 1925, in Ocean City, Maryland, and lived very close to the coast throughout his childhood. His grandfather was a commercial fisherman who taught Calhoun how to fish as a boy. He joined the United States Navy in 1943 at the age of 17 and was trained as a torpedoman. He served on the {{USS|Lunga Point|CVE-94|6}} in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. He participated in many of the bloodiest battles of the theater, including the battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. The Lunga Points crew received the Navy Unit Commendation for "extraordinary heroism and action against enemy Japanese forces in the air, ashore, and afloat" following a kamikaze attack on the ship. Calhoun was honorably discharged from the Navy on February 21, 1946. Coast GuardCalhoun returned to Ocean City and worked in the post office for a short period, but enlisted in the United States Coast Guard with a friend on September 20, 1946. He enlisted at the rank of Boatswain’s Mate Second Class due to his Navy experience. His first assignment was to a small station in Ocean City. There he saved a man who had fallen from a jetty into the water and broken his hip. Calhoun was awarded the Commandant's Letter of Commendation Ribbon for the rescue. He would later serve with Coast Guard Squadron One aboard the {{USCGC|Point Orient|WPB-82319|6}} during the Vietnam War. The cutter sighted and fought enemies on her first patrol, making the Point Orient the first Coast Guard cutter to fire shots in the Vietnam War.[1] Calhoun learned of the creation of the new office, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard (MCPOCG), while working as a career counselor. Calhoun sent in an application for the job, and centered his application essay on his belief that the office should be used to promote communication between enlisted sailors and their command. He was accepted and was made the first MCPOCG by then-Commandant of the Coast Guard Willard J. Smith on August 27, 1969. He undertook numerous projects during his tenure in the office, including working on the board that led to the creation of the Cutterman Insignia, implementing a program of local advisors who reported to the MCPOCG office to hear enlisted personnel issues, and beginning the movement towards the Coast Guard wearing their own style of uniform rather than Navy uniforms with a few defining patches and pins. Calhoun retired from the MCPOCG position on August 1, 1973. He would eventually die in Santa Rosa, California on February 24, 2002. Awards and decorations
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1. ^Larzelere, p. 30.
9 : 1925 births|2002 deaths|Master Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard|People from Ocean City, Maryland|Recipients of the Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation|Recipients of the Legion of Merit|United States Navy sailors|American naval personnel of World War II|American Coast Guard personnel of the Vietnam War |
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