Assignment: Icebreaking tug Neah Bay (now assigned to Coast Guard Sector Boston)
Personal: He and wife Irisha have a 5-year-old son, Charles Javion, and newborn daughter, Cassidy
CLEVELAND — For Charles Newton, the Coast Guard recruitment commercial came at just the right time one night in June 2005. His tricked-out 2000 Dodge Intrepid with fancy rims and tinted windows had been stolen that day, and he was fed up with living with crime in Cleveland.
“I have to get out of here,” Newton recalled thinking.
Newton called the Coast Guard recruiter the next day and went to boot camp in Cape May, N.J., two weeks later.
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