On the day Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Adam Murray assumed command of Station Barnegat Light three years ago, it was amid Tropical Storm Fay battering LBI with heavy rains and winds, forcing the change of command ceremony indoors. Other storms followed, including COVID, but on June 29 as he performed one last personnel inspection, the sky was clear and Barnegat Bay lapped calmly in the background.
With no equivalent ceremony in the Army or Air Force, the change of command ceremony “is a time-honored custom in the…
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