Executive Officer

Commander Sarah M. Pulliam is the Executive Officer of Training Center Yorktown. CDR Pulliam graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 2008 with a degree in Marine Environmental Science. Her first tours were onboard the CGC CYPRESS in Mobile, Alabama, as a Deck Watch Officer, and later as the Operations Officer on the CGC FIR in Astoria, Oregon, servicing aids to navigation and conducting migrant interdiction and fisheries enforcement in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. Next, she served as the Deputy Law Enforcement Division Chief at Sector Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. From there, she earned her Master’s Degree in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies from Florida State University in 2016, and was later assigned as the Performance Systems Branch Chief at Aviation Technical Training Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, overseeing the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Coast Guard enlisted aviation maintenance training.

She then reported to Sector Virginia as the Command Center Chief, leading the successful execution of all eleven Coast Guard statutory missions, to include search and rescue, recreational boating safety, pollution response, and law enforcement. From there, she was assigned as the Executive Assistant to Commander, Force Readiness Command (FORCECOM), supporting strategic decision making and the achievement of organizational training goals. Before her assignment as Executive Officer, she served as the Response Ashore Training Branch Chief at Training Center Yorktown, ensuring the impactful delivery of critical search and rescue, pollution response, and emergency management training to the fleet.

CDR Pulliam’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal and two Commendation Medals. She has two amazing daughters and a Labradoodle.