Phillip Null (Chief Boatswain's Mate, RET.) is an accomplished operator across the United States Coast Guard's full range of search and rescue, law enforcement, security, and disaster response missions. A qualified coxswain on fifteen different boat types with advanced heavy weather, tactical, pursuit, and aids to navigation competencies, he led formal underway training efforts for the Boatswain's Mate rating at the service's Boat Forces Center in Yorktown, VA. Now retired, his career included tours on the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Gulf coasts and deployments to foreign locales including West Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. He holds a AAS in Emergency Management and Planning, a BAS in Emergency and Disaster Management, and a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management Executive Leadership.