BP spill ops officer WH Fellow

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Five service members were among the 17 men and women appointed to the 2016-17 class of White House Fellows on Aug. 22. Among the selectees was Coast Guard Lt. Linden Dahlkemper, who most recently served as an instructor at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Previously, she served as operations officer on the West Coast-based Coast Guard Cutter Aspen that conducted oil-skimming operations in the Gulf of Mexico for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill. During the 5.5 month deployment, Aspen transited more than 13,000 nautical miles, navigating through the Panama Canal twice, and recovered more than 138,000 gallons of spilled oil. (Source: The White House 08/22/16)