Dayna Schock is a former active-duty member of the United States Coast Guard, where she served from 1996 until 2016.  In the Coast Guard she served in a variety of roles specializing in Search and Rescue, Law Enforcement and Training.  In two decades of service, she conducted drug interdiction, migrant interdiction, search and rescue, fisheries enforcement, homeland and maritime security, and defense operations including port security and tactical pursuit. 

 

During Ms. Schock’s tenure in the Coast Guard she worked with an assortment of other agencies including the US Secret Service participating in both Presidential and Vice-Presidential security details; the US Navy, ICE and US Border Patrol, performing migrant interdiction; DEA, ATF, FBI conducting counter-drug operations; and FEMA performing disaster relief.  She has also worked extensively with state and local law enforcement from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.   While stationed in New Jersey, she was called to respond to New York City on September 11, 2001. Her next year was spent patrolling the waters around Washington, DC in joint security efforts with other federal agencies and local police.  In 2003, as the executive officer of a Protector Class Patrol Boat, she was sent to the Port of Morehead City, NC to provide port security for civilian and military cargo ships as they loaded and sailed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

 

Ms. Schock is a certified Technical Instructor specializing in on-the-job training.  She was instrumental in developing the regulations and training programs for what would become the Tactical Pursuit Training Course. She served as a Federal Law Enforcement Instructor, trained, and certified by the Maritime Law Enforcement Academy now in Charleston, SC.  As a qualified Boarding Officer, she also served as a Boarding Safety Officer and on-scene analyst during and after boardings, especially boardings requiring use of force.  Ms. Schock taught and coached numerous active duty and reserve Coast Guard members in use of force, technique, tactical pursuit, boarding approach and departure, heavy weather-boat operations, first aid, firefighting, marksmanship and search and rescue coordination.   

 

Prior to joining the Coast Guard, Ms. Schock studied Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina while training as a police cadet.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and finance, and an associate degree in business administration from Thomas Edison State University, in Trenton, NJ.  Ms. Schock is a graduate of the USCG Senior Enlisted Leadership Academy in New London, CT.  She holds a 100-ton Master Merchant Mariner’s License with a towing endorsement.