Lieutenant Commander Travis E. Coffey, CHC, USN
LCDR Travis Coffey is a native of Morganton, North Carolina. He is a 2001 graduate of Warner University in Lake Wales, Florida, and earned a Master of Divinity from Gardner-Webb University Seminary in Boling Springs, North Carolina in 2010. He also completed five units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and was Nationally Board Certified in 2017 by the National Association of Veteran Affairs Chaplains.
After serving in local congregations in North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Ohio; Coffey was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 2010 and graduated from Officer Development School in Newport, Rhode Island and Chaplain Basic Course at Naval Chaplaincy School and Center in Columbia, South Carolina in 2011. He reported to 1ST Marine Aircraft Wing in Iwakuni, Japan where he served as the Marine Aircraft Group 12 Deputy Chaplain and Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12 Chaplain and supported exercises throughout Japan, Korea, Guam, Tinian, and Thailand. He also supported recovery efforts with Operation Tomadachi in humanitarian response to the tsunami devastation to Japan.
Coffey reported next to USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), home ported in San Diego, California in 2014 and supported COMTHIRDFLEET and NORTHCOM exercises and regional community relations projects. In 2016, Chaplain Coffey was selected by the Navy Chaplain Corps to attend the funded graduate education program for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at the San Diego Veterans Affairs and DOD CPE Center in San Diego, California.
He reported to his next assignment to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit, as a Staff Chaplain at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Fort Belvoir, VA and as the Clinic Chaplain to the DeLorenzo Medical and Dental Clinic in the Pentagon. In 2019, Coffey was selected to deploy with the USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) and served as the Operations Chaplain in support of CONTINUING PROMISE throughout 13 countries throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America. In July 2020 to 1ST Marine Aircraft Wing Kaneohe, Hawaii to serve as the Marine Aircraft Group 24 Command Chaplain. In July 2023, he reported to the First Coast Guard District in Boston, MA to serve as District Chaplain.
His personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with two gold stars.
He is married to his wife Allison and their three children: Adelynn, Drake, and Drew.