Doug Fears
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| 8th United States Homeland Security Advisor | |
| In office June 1, 2018 – July 12, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Rob Joyce (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Peter Brown |
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| Born | Douglas Margrave Fears Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | United States Coast Guard Academy (BA) Naval War College (MA) Harvard University (MPA) |
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| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Coast Guard |
| Years of service | 1982–2022 |
| Rank |  Rear Admiral |
| Commands | USCGC Hamilton USCGC Diligence |
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Douglas Margrave Fears[1] is a retired United States Coast Guard rear admiral who last served as Director of Joint Interagency Task Force South. He previously served as Assistant Commandant for Response Policy.[2] Fears was the Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump until July 12, 2019.[3]
Fears was born in Maryland[4] and enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1982, receiving an appointment to the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1985. He was commissioned as an ensign in 1989[5] after earning a Bachelor of Science in government from the Coast Guard Academy. He later received a master of arts in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College and a master of public administration from the Kennedy School of GovernmentatHarvard University.[6]
Fears has been the captain of three vessels, including the USCGC Diligence[4] and the USCGC Hamilton, a National Security cutter,[7] and has served on five others. He has also been in charge of the Coast Guard's Office of Law Enforcement, has been a program reviewer in the Coast Guard headquarters, has been a liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives, and has served as chief of staff to the commander of the Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command.[8] He currently holds the rank of rear admiral (lower half) in the Coast Guard.[8]
Additionally, Fears was a Coast Guard Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2009 to 2010 and a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI on Foreign Politics, International Relations, and the National Interest.[8]
In addition to his Coast Guard career, Fears has served in the administration of President Donald Trump as a special assistant to the President, as director for Central America and the Caribbean on the National Security Council staff,[8] as senior director for resilience policy for the National Security Council, and as Homeland Security Advisor.[9]
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United States Homeland Security Advisor 2018–2019 |
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d Currently styled as Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism | ||
