Ms. FREEMAN is cited for meritorious service in the performance of duty as Division Chief and Deputy Department Chief of Education from 1 September 2003 to 1 December 2004. With expert managerial skill, Ms. FREEMAN coordinated the development of a comprehensive new Auxiliary instructor training program as well as the complete educational programs for the 2004 Auxiliary National Conference and Auxiliary National Training Conference in which several hundred Coast Guard and Auxiliary personnel participated. In expansion of these efforts to all Auxiliarists, she developed and launched three innovative public education courses designed for boat operators and passengers: GPS for Mariners, How to Read a Nautical Chart, and Suddenly in Command. Demonstrating outstanding inter-agency cooperation, Ms. FREEMAN was instrumental in development of a train-the-trainer program for the Southern Region Boy Scouts of America that resulted in their adoption of several Auxiliary boating courses to train thousands of America’s youth in recreational boating safety. As an ideal ambassador of maritime domain awareness in international forums, she helped lead adoption of Waterway Watch and America's Boating Course programs by the Search and Rescue Foundation of Aruba. With similar conviction and dedication to helping others, Ms. FREEMAN arranged vital Auxiliary instructor training for the Bahamas Air-Sea Rescue Association to facilitate their ongoing development of a new mandatory recreational boating safety program that is expected to reach over 5,000 Bahamian boaters in its first year. Ms. FREEMAN’s dedication and devotion to duty are most heartily commended and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.