COMMAND
Commodore, PATFORSWA
CAPT James “Joe” Camp
Captain Camp currently serves as Commander, USCG Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA) and Commodore of CTG 55.1. As Commodore, he commands the Coast Guard’s largest unit outside the United States. Based in Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain, PATFORSWA is comprised of six Coast Guard Fast Response Cutters, a shore-side support element, and a Maritime Engagement Team totaling over 300 personnel. PATFORSWA provides combat ready assets in support of U.S. Navy FIFTH Fleet and Naval Central Forces Command strategic objectives.
Captain Camp’s primary experience is in the Coast Guard’s Deployable Specialized Forces. He previously served as Executive Officer of Maritime Security Response Team West. In this role, he oversaw over 260 Coast Guard personnel responsible for providing dedicated maritime counterterrorism and advanced interdiction law enforcement capabilities throughout the U.S. and Indo-Pacific, as well as the Coast Guard's worldwide dive operations from three Regional Dive Lockers.
Other previous assignments include Chair-Consolidated Counterdrug Database while assigned to The Interdiction Committee, Washington DC; Commanding Officer of Maritime Safety and Security Team Houston (91104), TX; Maritime Security Response Team and Tactical Law Enforcement Team Force Manager at Atlantic Area, Portsmouth VA; Executive Officer of Maritime Safety and Security Team Seattle (91101), WA; Force Branch Chief, Maritime Law Enforcement Academy, Charleston, SC; Executive Officer of Seventh District Tactical Law Enforcement Team, Opa Locka, FL; and Homeland Security Officer, Group Seattle, WA. Additionally, as a Gunner’s Mate he served aboard the CGC MIDGETT, Seattle, WA and as a U. S. Marine, he was assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion, Camp Hansen, Okinawa and Marine Wing Support Squadron 274 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC.
Captain Camp is a 1989 graduate of U. S. Marine Corps Recruit Training at Parris Island, SC, a 1999 graduate of U.S. Coast Guard Basic Training in Cape May, New Jersey, and a 2002 graduate of U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School in New London, Connecticut. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from East Carolina University.
Captain Camp’s military awards include three Meritorious Service Medals, three Coast Guard Commendation Medals, two Coast Guard Achievement Medals, the Commandant’s Letter of Commendation, and other unit, team, and service awards. He is authorized to wear the Advanced Boat Forces Insignia and Commandant’s Staff Identification Badge.
Captain Camp has one daughter, Emma, a graduate of West Virginia University.
Deputy, PATFORSWA
Commander Amanda L. Hood
CDR Hood currently serves as the Deputy Commander, USCG Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA), and Deputy Commodore, CTG 55.1. She is second in command of the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest overseas unit comprised of six Fast Response Cutters, a shore-side support element, and a Maritime Engagement Team. PATFORSWA provides combat ready assets in support of the U.S. Navy FIFTH Fleet and Naval Central Command.
CDR Hood’s afloat assignments include serving as Commanding Officer of USCGC PIKE (WPB 87365) and as the Executive Officer on USCGC MONOMOY (WPB 1326) forward deployed to PATFORSWA in support of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM, ENDURING FREEDOM, and NEW DAWN. She completed a tour as the Operations Officer aboard USCGC MUNRO (WMSL 755) where she patrolled the Pacific Area of Operations, including the South China Sea, the Eastern Pacific, Oceania, and the Bering Sea. Her first afloat assignment was as the First Lieutenant and Law Enforcement Officer of USCGC ESCANABA (WMEC 907).
CDR Hood’s ashore assignments include the Legal Service Command as the Command Services Division Chief, serving as the Staff Judge Advocate to over 45 commands within the Mission Support enterprise. She was detailed to the Department of Homeland Security Office of the General Counsel (OGC) as an Attorney-Advisor in the Operations and Enforcement Law Division where her portfolio included maritime domain issues, the DHS Countering-Unmanned Aircraft Systems program, and coordinating the OGC Crisis Cell. In her first legal tour, CDR Hood served as a duty attorney in the Office of Maritime & International Law, Response Law Division.
CDR Hood received her commission as an Ensign in 2008, after graduating with high honors from the United States Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. CDR Hood was selected for the Coast Guard’s funded Law Program and earned her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2016. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
CDR Hood’s military awards include two Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medals, four Coast Guard Commendation Medals, the Coast Guard Achievement Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, and various other personal and unit awards.
CDR Hood is married to Mr. David Zukowski, who resides in San Francisco with their two cats.
Command Master Chief, PATFORSWA
Command Master Chief Anthony M. Martinez
Master Chief Anthony M. Martinez assumed the duties as Command Master Chief for Patrol Forces Southwest Asia on 17 June 2024. His primary responsibility is to advise and support the Commodore on all issues and initiatives pertaining to the Coast Guard’s most forwardly deployed unit comprised of six 154’ Fast Response cutters, shore side support personnel, and the Maritime Engagement Team (MET). Most recently, Master Chief Martinez served as Command Master Chief of Sector Southeastern New England in Woods Hole, MA.
A Brooklyn, NY native, Master Chief Martinez enlisted in the Coast Guard on 7 Sep 1999. His previous assignments include Officer In Charge of Coast Guard Cutter SHEARWATER (WPB-87349) in Cape May, NJ, Officer In Charge of Station Eatons Neck in Northport, NY, and a Deployable Specialized Forces position as Tactical Delivery Team Chief at Special Missions Training Detachment East and Maritime Security Response Team East in Chesapeake, VA. His afloat assignments include First Lieutenant and Operations Petty Officer on board Coast Guard Cutter SEA HORSE (WPB-87361) in Portsmouth, VA and Deck and Operations Leading Petty Officer on board Coast Guard Cutter WILLOW (WLB-202) in Newport, RI. His Boat Forces assignments include Training Petty Officer at Station Indian River Inlet in Rehoboth Beach, DE, Station Eastport, ME, and Station Gloucester, MA.
Master Chief Martinez is a proud graduate of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Academy Class 205 and the Coast Guard Senior Enlisted Leadership Course Class 62. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business, Management, and Economics with a concentration in Studies in Management from SUNY Empire State University.
Master Chief Martinez’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, three Coast Guard Commendation Medals, two Coast Guard Achievement Medals, two Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Ribbon Bars, all with Operational Distinguishing Devices, the Command Afloat and Ashore Devices, and the permanent Cutterman, Coxswain, and Advanced Boat Forces Insignias.
Master Chief Martinez is married to the former Lisa Traina of Bayonne, NJ since 2014. They are proud parents of Noel, Selena, Anthony III, and Deziree.