Mr. Doescher
joined the USCG Auxiliary in 2003 and has focused on the Public
Education and Marine Safety mission areas. He has served as an ADSO-MS
and FSO-PE, and currently still serves as the DSO-MS in
D1/Northern. He has been active in direct operations since 2004
when he became the Sea Partners Campaign coordinator for First Coast
Guard District. In addition, he has supported the First District’s
America’s
Waterway Watch outreach and Sector-Boston’s Sea Partners, Port State
Control and Regional Examination Center activities.His
training/qualifications include Instructor, Administrative
Procedures, Good Mate, IMSEP. IIMS, ICS (100, 200, 700, 800), AUXCOM,
AUXSEA, AUXPAT, AUX-MEES, and AUX-MSAM. His AUX-LDEV and AUX-LDEX
PQSs are pending issue of Letters of Designation, and his AUX-PSC
PQS is in final stages of completion.
He
became an active boater in 1997, starting with a USCG Auxiliary
course followed by a sailing school. He obtained advanced
seamanship and navigation training as a crew member on the schooner
Ocean Star operating along the New England coast during two cruises
in 1997 and 1998. He and his wife sailed New England waters in
their Catalina 320 sloop Lady Jane until it was sold in 2006.
Mr. Doescher's
Air Force career spanned 20 years, with a total of 8 years enlisted
service and 12 years commissioned service at his retirement in
1978. Much of his service career involved missile launch
operations, test range operations, and engineering management for
the acquisition of command, control, communications and intelligence
systems, and space and missile programs. His in-service training
included Squadron Officer School and Air Command and Staff College.
His
military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal and Air Force
Commendation Medal (2); his Auxiliary awards include the Sustained
Auxiliary Service Award (3), and the Coast Guard Special Operations
Service Ribbon.
Mr. Doescher was born and raised in New York City.
He received a BS-Electrical Engineering from the University of
Wyoming in 1966, and an MS-Electrical Engineering from Northeastern
University in 1969.
He
worked as a Systems Engineer for The MITRE
Corporation, retiring as a Senior Principal Engineer in 2004 after
26 years. During his MITRE career he served as a operational test
director for the Air Force Satellite Communications System,
technical advisor to the NATO standardization working group on
Combat Identification Systems, as Deputy Chief Engineer on the
development of aircraft Mission Planning Systems (including leading
a development team on digitized charting for the Defense Mapping
Agency), as Chief Systems Architect for the Joint Expeditionary
Forces Experiments, and as a consultant to the Air Force Chief
Architect’s office. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Doescher was
part of a team exploring applications of complex adaptive systems
theory to large-scale military systems and technology policy.
Mr. Doescher is
married to the former Jane Schneider of Floral Park, NY and they
currently live in Newburyport, MA. They have two sons and two
grandchildren.
