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New leadership for Coast Guard’s Anchorage Sector

KMXT | By Rhonda McBride

Published July 15, 2020 at 9:29 PM AKDT

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Capt. Sean MacKenzie shakes hands with Capt. Gregory Fuller, Chief of Staff Coast Guard Seventeenth District, after receiving an award during a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, July 15, 2020. MacKenzie was relieved by Capt. Leanne Lusk as commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Anchorage. Sector Anchorage is the Coast Guard’s largest sector in terms of geographic area, exercising authority in a jurisdiction extending throughout Western Alaska, the North Slope, the Aleutian Islands, and Prince William Sound. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa E. F. McKenzie.

There’s new leadership for the Coast Guard’s Anchorage sector, its largest geographic area, which encompasses Western Alaska, the North Slope, the Aleutian Islands and Prince William Sound.

Captain Leanne Lusk took the helm at a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Wednesday. The outgoing commander is Captain Sean Mackenzie, who has been reassigned to the Coast Guard’s Africa Command in Germany

Lusk brings her experience from directing Coast Guard operations in a four-state area on and around Lake Michigan and the Illinois Waterway.

Capt. Gregory Fuller, chief of staff for the Coast Guard’s 17^th District, presided over the event, which was modified to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Captain Leanne Lusk, new commander of Coast Guard’s Anchorage sector. Photo Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard.