32, Laguna Niguel ... Commander of...

32, Laguna Niguel ... Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter

Narwhal ... Led a 10-man crew on a 41-day jaunt from New Orleans to

Corona del Mar in Sept. 2001 to bring the Narwhal to its home base

... The 87-foot cutter replaced the Point Stuart ... The Narwhal was

the first patrol boat in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor area after

the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ... Honored by Rep. Chris Cox at a

Nov. 2 commissioning ceremony for the Narwhal ... Was honored with a

“John Kidwell Day,” on Nov. 2 by his home-state Oklahoma Legislature

... Enlisted in 1991 ... Avidly follows Oklahoma Sooners football and

is predicting they will win the national championship ... “If they

lose, I don’t want to get a bunch of phone calls. We need to get past

Miami” ... Unranked last year