RADM David Callahan

Rear Admiral David R. Callahan graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1982 and later earned a Master's degree in National Security Studies. A Coast Guard aviator with more than 30 years of fixed- and rotary-wing flight experience, he commanded Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans and later the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama.

He went on to serve as Chief of Staff of the Ninth Coast Guard District, Commander of the Coast Guard Personnel Command, and Assistant Commandant for Human Resources and Chief Human Capital Officer, including a posting as Coast Guard liaison to NATO in Naples during the Bosnian conflict. He commanded the Eighth Coast Guard District, based in New Orleans, retiring on 1 November 2017.

He gave the keynote address at Mare Forum's 9th and 10th Mare Forum USA forums, in 2015 and 2016.