CAPT Christopher Rosen 

Commander, National Strike Force (NSF)

Commanding Officer, National Strike Force Coordination Center (NSFCC)
United States Coast Guard

Captain Christopher Rosen serves as Commander, National Strike Force (NSF) and Commanding Officer, National Strike Force Coordination Center (NSFCC) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The NSF is a functional deployable specialized forces command with global responsibility. The NSF is headquartered at NSFCC and consists of the Public Information Assist Team (PIAT), Coast Guard Incident Management Assist Team (CG-IMAT), Atlantic Strike Team (AST), Gulf Strike Team (GST), and Pacific Strike Team (PST). In his role, he provides rapidly deployable technical experts, specialized equipment, and incident management capabilities for lead agency Incident Commanders and Federal On-Scene Coordinators for the most complex response and preparedness missions while minimizing the adverse impact to the public and the environment from natural and man-made disasters.

CAPT Rosen graduated from Coast Guard Recruit Training at TRACEN Cape May, New Jersey in June of 1993. As an enlisted member, he struck Boatswain’s Mate on the CGC STORIS homeported in Kodiak, Alaska, and served as duty Surfman and Boarding Officer at Motor Lifeboat Stations Yaquina/Depoe Bay, Cape Disappointment, and Shinnecock. At Station Shinnecock, he advanced to Chief Boatswain’s Mate in July of 2002 and served as the Executive Petty Officer before being selected for Officer Candidate School.

After attending Officer Candidate School at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut in 2005, he served as an instructor at the National Search and Rescue School, Station Supervisor at SECTOR Hampton Roads, Chief of Afloat Operations at TRACEN Yorktown, Command Center Chief at SECTOR St. Petersburg, Homeland Defense Policy Officer at NORAD & USNORTHCOM in Colorado Springs, the Chief of Response at SECTOR Maryland-NCR, Executive Assistant to the Director of DHS Joint Task Force – East, and has most recently served as the Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard’s Incident Management Assist Team in Norfolk, Virginia.

Among other awards, CAPT Rosen has been permanently assigned Surfman check number #278 in the National Register of Surfman, is a 2004 graduate of the Chief Petty Officer Academy, earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology from Touro University, and a Master of Military Studies from the Marine Corps University at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. CAPT Rosen is married to his wife, Sasha and has a daughter, Mickala, son-in-law, Nicholas and a four-year-old granddaughter, Juniper.