U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Jason M. Biggar honorably retired during ceremony at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, New Jersey

Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Shannon Kearney | U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Jason M. Biggar, head of the facilities engineering department at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, New Jersey, poses for an official portrait at the training center prior to his retirement, April 6, 2021. Biggar, a native from Traverse City, Michigan, honorably retired from active duty service during a ceremony held in the training center's gymnasium, April 8, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Shannon Kearney)  

CAPE MAY, NJ, UNITED STATES

04.08.2021

Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Shannon Kearney 

U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May

CAPE MAY, N.J. — U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Jason M. Biggar retired from active duty service during a ceremony at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, New Jersey, April 8, 2021.

Capt. Kathy Felger, commanding officer of Training Center Cape May, presided over the ceremony.

Biggar assumed his duties as head of the facilities engineering department for the Coast Guard’s only recruit training center in August 2016, and led a division comprised of 71 engineering professionals, maintenance technicians, groundskeepers, and fire and safety professionals to support the training center’s mission and the missions of the base’s 14 tenant commands.

He directed numerous functions at the training center, including facility maintenance, inspections, engineering design, construction management, safety compliance, environmental compliance, and emergency medical service responses.

Biggar was previously assigned as the executive officer of Civil Engineering Unit Cleveland, Ohio. He managed a team of 62 members to deliver major facility maintenance for all Coast Guard units in the 13 Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions. He also supervised the configuration management of all the region’s Coast Guard aviation, shore operations, and waterfront facility assets.

Biggar’s previous assignments include Maintenance and Logistics Command for Atlantic area, Norfolk, Virginia; Training Center Yorktown, Virginia; Civil Engineering Unit Miami, Florida; Coast Guard Cutter Acacia, Charlevoix, Michigan; and Coast Guard Cutter Red Cedar, Portsmouth, Virginia.

Biggar is a native of Traverse City, Michigan, and graduated from St. Francis High School in 1993. He then graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. Biggar obtained his professional engineering license from the state of Ohio in 2013, followed by his master’s degree in engineering management from Penn State Great Valley in 2016.

Biggar’s awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Coast Guard Commendation Medal, the Coast Guard Achievement Medal, two Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Ribbons with operational distinguishing devices, as well as other numerous personal and service awards.

Biggar and his wife Donna are the proud parents of three children: their eleven-year-old twins, Adelynn and Austin, and their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Annaliese.

• Date Taken: 04.08.2021
• Date Posted: 04.08.2021 16:52
• Story ID: 393391
• Location: CAPE MAY, NJ, US
• Hometown: TRAVERSE CITY, MI, US