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sponsibility and the celebrations which accompanied it.
Assigned to the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, McGhee had a hand in making the scheduled events a success.
The Committee oversaw a temporary joint task force made up of service members drawn from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. Members of the task force planned, coordinated and provided support for scheduled inaugural activities which called for the use of military members.
McGhee, whose regular duty assignment is as a radioman at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., reported to the committee in August ready to be part of a slice of American history.
“This assignment started out slow but the closer we got to inauguaration day, the quicker the pace got. This job was really a once-in-alifetime event. I worked as the radio training instructor and as you can imagine we had a lot of radio nets working,” said McGhee, a 1981 graduate of Eastwood High School in El Paso, Texas.
McGhee was chosen for this assignment because of an excellent record of professional performance. According to Captain Janice Smith, a committee spokeswoman, the as
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