Coast Guard

Posted on October 01, 2005

Lieutenant, U.S. Coast Guard

Lieutenant Barry Steven Roffman had ten years in the Naval Reserve before being honorably discharged in 1979. He served on 5 aircraft carriers, 4 destroyers, an amphibious communications command ship, and a minesweeper. In 1983 he enlisted in the Coast Guard Reserve as an E-5 (QM-2), and received another commission in 1985. He then worked his way back to lieutenant before retiring in 1995. In 2003 he was recalled from retirement, first to Coast Guard District Seven in Miami for 4 months, and then on to Coast Guard Pacific Area in Alameda, CA for at least three years.

LT Roffman, also a retired high school science teacher, was recalled from Coast Guard retirement at age 56 because of his considerable experience in writing and producing OPLANs for the Coast Guard and Navy. These plans had earned him a Commendation medal, an Achievement Medal, and a Commandant’s Letter of Achievement Ribbon Bar with gold star in the early 1990s. He has a great love for writing and research, and has authored three commercial books. One published in 1978 dealt with comparative religion, another work in 1989 dealt with a unique custody battle described below, and the third work (ARK CODE, Searching for the Ark of the Covenant using ELS Maps from the Bible Code) is now for sale, at Amazon.com.