Lieutenant Commander Piero Pecora, U.S. Coast Guard, is assigned to the Coast Guard First District staff. A permanent cutterman, he has served on board the cutters Legare (WMEC-912), Bertholf (WMSL-750), and Morgenthau (WHEC-722), as well as with the Coast Guard Seventh and Eleventh District enforcement staffs coordinating counterdrug and migrant interdiction operations. He holds a bachelor’s in management from the Coast Guard Academy and an MBA from American Military University.