Master Chief Petty Officer Patton

Posted by LT Connie Braesch, Monday, January 31, 2011

Retired Master Chief Petty Officer Patton served as the eighth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard from May 1998 to October 2002, and was the first African American selected as the service’s senior-most enlisted ranking position. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Telfair H. Brown.