About Me

 Edward Semler is a retired U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant who served over  25 years in both the U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard. In the Army he was  an enlisted man and obtained the rank of specialist four (E-4). He  served with the 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Pelham, Korea on the  Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the 5th Infantry Division at Fort Polk,  Louisiana. While in Korea he deployed for Team Spirit in 1983 and  attended the Republic of Korea Ranger School. While at Fort Polk he  deployed for REFORGER 1984 in Germany. In the Coast Guard he was an  enlisted man obtaining the rank of master chief petty officer (E-9), was  commissioned as an officer, and retired as a lieutenant (0-3E). He  served at several shore stations and afloat in the Sumac (WLR-311),  Seneca (WMEC-906), Tampa (WMEC-902), Eagle (WIX-327), Sherman  (WHEC-720), and Dependable (WMEC-626). He commissioned the Seneca and in  Eagle he sailed on her summer 1998 cruise. In 1999, as a senior chief  petty officer (E-8), he attended the U.S. Air Force senior  non-commissioned officers academy. While in the Sherman he was assigned  as the main propulsion chief and held the position of command enlisted  advisor. He made her historic deployment to the Persian Gulf and  circumnavigation of the globe in 2001. In Dependable he served as an  officer and assigned as the assistant engineering officer and damage  control assistant. While on the "Mighty D" he was involved in numerous  multi-million dollar drug busts to include the $274 million dollars in  drugs found aboard the M/V Miss Mery Hill.  He  lives in Schulenburg, Texas with his wife Jana, a retired Air Force  Senior Master Sergeant.