About
Lieutenant Commander Dave Pierce served 28 years as both an enlisted man and later as an officer in our nation’s oldest maritime service, retiring with distinction in 2005. Experience and expertise includes Engineering duties aboard large Coast Guard Cutters and six Marine Safety / Captain of the Port tours of duty throughout the United States, including large open-ocean areas of responsibility and the Western rivers system.
Mr Pierce’s Coast Guard licensing expertise began with serving as Deputy Chief, Regional Exam Center (REC), Charleston SC. He developed an extensive background in the application evaluation process for Deck officers, Ship Pilots, Engineers and unlicensed personnel.
In addition to his REC assignment at Marine Safety Office Charleston, Mr Pierce also gathered related experience as a Personnel & Marine Casualty Investigator, as well as Deputy and later as Chief of the Vessel Inspection Dept.
After retirement from active duty, he worked as a Port Area Exercise Trainer/Facilitator for the National PORTSTEP readiness program, and later as the SC State Port Authority’s Facility Security and Training Officer, overseeing a TWIC credentialing program for over 12,000 issued Port Terminal users. Applying his varied and expansive professional experience to the maritime industry, he co-founded Credential App Review and Submission Service, or CARS, in 2018. This innovative, successful service is designed to assist and guide mariners in completing the not-user-friendly Government forms, also acting as an Authorized 3rd Party for the applicant in submission to the National Maritime Center, if desired. More information as to this helpful service can be found on the CARS informational page at www.uscgappreview.com
LCDR Pierce’s awards from the U.S. Coast Guard include the Meritorious Service Medal, Commendation Medal, five Achievement Medals and two Commandant’s Letters of Commendation. His dedication to the USCG has benefited countless mariners in obtaining their goal of earning a USCG license credential.