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-======David M. Fuller, BC-BLO======
-{{::fuller-d-213x300.jpg?200 |}}Dave Fuller ([[[email protected]|email]])  currently serves as Branch Chief – Operations Partners in the Liaison Division of Recreational Boating Safety Outreach Directorate. He also serves as the Division Chief for Course Development in the Education Directorate. In his RBS Liaison role, he is responsible for establishing and cultivating relationships with the US Power Squadrons that will facilitate increased cooperation and collaboration between our organizations. Dave and his wife, Nan Ellen Fuller, are dual members with the US Power Squadrons and Auxiliary. In his Course Development role with the Education Directorate, his team creates new products for Public Education along with promotion of those products as they did with the 2017 PE Workshop.
-He is originally from Indianapolis and grew up in the shadow of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he and his partners owned and raced Funny Cars.  While still in high school in 1972, he joined Nationwise Auto Parts working part time and learned the retail auto parts business from the ground up. He started out in the retail stores and gradually worked his way up through the ranks to manage first one store, then several. They promoted him from Operations to Human Resources and Recruiting/Training/New Markets as they expanded and opened new markets. With responsibility for expansion into the Southeast US, he relocated to Atlanta in 1986. It was there that he met Nan Ellen and they were married approximately a year later.
-His work responsibilities included recruiting, training, and initiating operations as they opened dozens more retail stores in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. He was fortunate to have great mentors and formed many of his business philosophies during his 21 years at Nationwise. Eventually, the opportunity arose to work with AutoZone as several AutoZone executives were former Nationwise co-workers and they recruited him for their team. His responsibilities there were similar as they opened new markets and trained new employees in formal classroom settings. He retired from AutoZone in December 1998.
-Dave joined the Auxiliary in 2002 after being recruited at the Atlanta Boat Show public affairs booth by a fellow ham radio operator (also an Auxiliarist) who said they needed Watchstanders. He had the skills and it fit nicely with his love of boating. After he joined, he found that there was much more to the Auxiliary than just standing watch. He set to work with member training to learn about our different programs and quickly advanced through the ranks of leadership with several flotilla and division staff and leadership positions. Eventually, he ascended to district level where he served as DDC-P, DCAPT-North Area, and DDAA, (Deputy Director for Administrative Assistants) a position created by District 7 DIRAUX to train and supervise the 27 Auxiliarists serving DIRAUX with administrative responsibilities.
-He has taken every Coast Guard and Auxiliary leadership training opportunity that was available to him including Flotilla Leadership, Commandant’s Performance Excellence Course (CPEC), AUXLAMS, and AMLOC (DCDR and DCAPT versions). His significant Auxiliary awards include ACM, AAM, ACLOC, RBS Specialist Award, Auxiliary Membership Service Award, Operations Service Awards, PE Service Awards, Auxiliary Sustained Service Awards, VE/MDV Service Award, CG Meritorious Team Commendations, CG Unit Commendations, Presidential Unit Citation, and Transportation 9-11 Ribbon.  His current qualifications include AUXOP, Coxswain, Vessel Examiner, RBS Visitor, Instructor, AUXTCT (Auxiliary TCT Facilitator), TCTFAC (legacy CG TCT Facilitator), TCO, and Watchstander.
-He remains very active and current as a Coxswain, Vessel Examiner, RBS Visitor, Instructor, TCT Facilitator, Watchstander, and has a boat offered for use for patrols. He has volunteered over 25,000 hours of service in his Auxiliary career.
-His other volunteer position is as an Emergency Coordinator for his local county with Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES). This is the Emergency Communications Division of the American Radio Relay League, the national organization for Ham Radio Operators. They work closely with local (EMA), state (GEMA), and federal agencies (FEMA) to provide emergency communications as needed. The Auxiliary takes precedence when there are time conflicts between his ARES leadership position and Auxiliary duties. He has three Assistant Emergency Coordinators trained and qualified to step into his role as needed to ensure continuity of operational readiness.
-Dave and his wife Nan Ellen have completed approximately half of the Great Loop – a circumnavigation of the eastern half of the US by boat. This water route uses inland rivers, coastal waters, canals, and the Great Lakes to complete the 6000-mile circumnavigation. They hope to complete the remaining half of the trip in the future.

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