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Chase commanding officer marries aboard cutter SAN DIEGO — Capt. Gregory J. Sanial married Eva Habetinova in a small wedding ceremony in the Captain's Cabin onboard Coast Guard Cutter Chase in San Diego Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 24, 2009. Lt. Leroy Young, Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy officiated the wedding. Sanial has been the commanding officer of the Chase since June 2009. Habetinova is a petroleum engineer working in Houston. They met when they were both graduate students at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Weddings performed onboard Coast Guard cutters are quite rare. However, the shipboard wedding continues a sea going tradition in Sanial's family. His two daughters, Sydney and Alexandra, who participated in the wedding, were both baptized aboard Coast Guard cutters. Sydney was baptized aboard Coast Guard Cutter Attu in San Juan, P. R., and Alexandra was baptized aboard Coast Guard Cutter Eagle in New London, Conn. In addition to the Chase, Sanial has commanded three other Coast Guard cutters. He commanded Coast Guard Cutter Forward homeported in Portsmouth, Va., the Attu homeported in San Juan, P.R., and Coast Guard Cutter Point Whitehorn homeported in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He also has served as executive officer of Coast Guard Cutter Dependable homeported in Cape May, N.J., and aboard Coast Guard Cutter Confidence homeported in Port Canaveral, Fla. The Chase is a 378-foot high endurance cutter with 170 officers and crew who conduct deployments in areas ranging from the Bering Sea to the coast of South America. Chase has continued to serve the nation by performing the full array of Coast Guard missions. Like all Coast Guard units, conducting search and rescue and the protection of the homeland though law enforcement are a priority for the Chase. ***Editor's Note*** For a photo of the captain and his new wife, please click on the link below. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=720530 ### Saving Lives and Guarding the Coast Since 1790.
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