Lieutenant Commander Lajoie is assigned as the junior response ashore assignment officer at Coast Guard Personnel Service Center—Officer Personnel Management Division. Previously, he served as the chief of incident management at Coast Guard Sector Northern New England and as a search-and-rescue mission coordinator.

Articles by Nicholas Lajoie

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak (WPB-1329)

Risk-Based SAR Decision-Making Works

By Lieutenant Commander Nicholas Lajoie and Lieutenants Michael Massaro and Christian DiBari, U.S. Coast Guard
July 2022
For routine evolutions, risk management can seem mundane and unnecessary—even boring—but when lives are at stake, it provides essential information to command centers.