Everett Rollins
Captain Everett "Rusty" Rollins is a retired officer of the United States Coast Guard and former commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater.
Early life
Rollins was born on September 8, 1957 in Rural, Florida to Everett Jr and Regina. He was the oldest of six Rollins children. Rusty excelled as a leader in high school earning the rank of Eagle Scout and attending The American Legion Boys State in Rhode Island, being selected as a Boys Nation Senator in 1974.
Education
Rusty started school at the Naval Academy Primary School in Annapolis, Md., and attended a total of 13 different schools before graduating High School from North Kingstown Senior High School in Rhode Island. He was accepted to both the US Naval Academy and the US Coast Guard Academy. His final decision was to enroll at the Coast Guard Academy entering the military and government service as a cadet at the US Coast Guard Academy in the June of 1975. He graduated in May of 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Science. Upon graduation he was recognized as the Cadet that contributed the most to the Academy during his four years of attendance.
He has two Masters degrees. He earned a Master of International Relations from Auburn University Montgomery and simultaneously earned a Master of Strategic Studies from The Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society.
His military education includes Air Command and Staff College, Naval War College (Command and Staff), Joint Military Attaché School, and Air War College. He has served as adjunct faculty at St. Petersburg College and Axia College of the University of Phoenix.
Career
After graduation from the US Coast Guard Academy, he served aboard the USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722), followed by completion of Naval Flight Training. Aviation tours included stations in Florida, North Carolina and Alaska where he flew the HC-130H aircraft. As a C-130 instructor pilot he was assigned to exchange duty in the European Theater with the USAF 67th Special Operations Squadron where he deployed to support Operation Desert Storm. He had an assignment to the Defense Intelligence Agency as the Coast Guard Military Attaché at the US Embassy in Mexico City. Other tours include Director of Search and Rescue and Director of Operations for the Coast Guard Seventh District in Miami, Florida, directing Coast Guard Operations throughout the Southeast US and Caribbean. In addition he was the Operations Section Chief for the Homeland Security Task Force – South East, the first Department of Homeland Security Task Force. His command tour was at Air Station Clearwater, Florida the Coast Guard’s largest operational unit operating HH-60 helicopters and HC-130H aircraft. He accumulated over 5900 hours of military pilot time. He retired from the Coast Guard as a Captain in 2005.
Service in Iraq
Lieutenant Commander Everett F. Rollins III was the only Coast Guard officer assigned to JTF Proven Force which was the northern Iraq component of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and the only Coast Guard officer assigned to Operation Provide Comfort.
Work with the Boy Scouts of America
CDR Everett Rollins was the head of the Coast Guard contingent working the 2001 National Scout Jamboree. He had 55 active and reserve Coast Guard members on staff -- 23 of them Eagle Scouts and one a Sea Scout Quartermaster -- representing 24 different commands nationwide. Quartermaster is the Eagle equivalent top rank for Sea Scouts youths.
CAPT Everett Rollins the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Task Force for the 2005 National Scout Jamboree which was made up of Coast Guard active, retired, reservists, Cadets and Auxiliarists; 190 total with 50% of the male members of the Task Force were Eagle Scouts.