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LCDR Steven W. Hulse
U. S. Coast Guard

LCDR Steve Hulse is a career afloat officer with tours of duty aboard four different cutters and is currently assigned as a Federal Executive Fellow to the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, MD.

Originally from Moriches, NY, LCDR Hulse graduated from William Floyd High School in 2003 and reported to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, as a member of the 2007 class.  Upon graduation he was assigned to USCGC ESCANABA (WMEC 907), Boston, MA serving as a deck watch officer, boarding officer and First Lieutenant.

In 2009, he received orders to report to the USCGC STATEN ISLAND (WPB 1345), Atlantic Beach, NC, as the Executive Officer.  Tasked with patrolling the Eastern Seaboard from New York City, to Charleston, SC, the cutter enforced federal fisheries regulations, conducted search and rescue missions and Ports/Waterways, Coastal security.

In the summer of 2011, he reported to the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment in the Marine Policy Program and focused research on high-seas fisheries enforcement. Upon earning a Master of Marine Policy in the spring of 2013, he was assigned as Commanding Officer of the North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center based in Kodiak, Alaska.

In 2016, he transferred to USCGC ALEX HALEY (WMC 39) also based in Kodiak, AK, serving as the Operations Officer.  Over the course of five deployments, the cutter routinely patrolled above the Arctic Circle and coordinated search and rescue operations in the Bering Sea.  During a deployment to the Western Pacific, the cutter conducted 30 foreign fisheries boardings and seized a stateless vessel that was using illegal high-seas drift nets to catch 80 tons of salmon.

In summer of 2018, he reported as the supervisor of Afloat Training Organization (ATO) in Portsmouth, VA, and led a team of 20 subject matter experts to conduct a biennial training and assessment cycle aboard 65 Coast Guard cutters based on the East Coast, Western Rivers, and Manama, Bahrain.

In July of 2020, LCDR Hulse reported as the first Commanding Officer of USCGC CHARLES MOULTHROPE (WPC 1141), one of six Fast Response Cutters based in Patrol Forces Southwest Asia, Manama, Bahrain.  The CHARLES MOULTHROPE directly supports U.S. Naval Forces Central Command objectives including layered defense escorts of high value coalition assets and maritime interdiction operations to disrupt the flow of advanced conventional weapons and contraband to malign non-state actors throughout the region.

Currently residing in Annapolis, MD, he is married to Jennifer Hulse (Kinsey) from West Caldwell, NJ, and they have two daughters, Lilah, 6 and Kinsey, 3.